Scott Beason

How Long Are the Beason Lines In Alabama? They're Adding Port-A-Potties

October 6, 2011 by Left in Alabama

Scott Beason and his incompetent friends in the Legislature have succeeded in boosting at least one business sector in Alabama ... Port-A Potty rentals.  Yep, thanks to Beason, Hammon and company, tag lines are so long officials have had to bring in portable toilets.

Tags lines have been so long in Birmingham that officials are adding portable toilets. 

Let's just call them Beason Boxes.

Scott Beason Too Good To Get His Hands Dirty With Farm Work

October 4, 2011 by Left in Alabama

Farm work is hard work, literally back-breaking labor.  Ivory-tower Republicans like state Sen. Scott Beason (R, Gardendale) who say there are plenty of natural born Alabamians clamoring for the physically grueling, low paying jobs in poultry plants and agricultural fields have no idea how hard that work is. 

And in Beason's case, he has absolutely no interest in finding out what the back-breaking job of picking tomatoes feels like, refusing point-blank to pick even a single bucket for a farmer whose crop is rotting in the field.

After talking with famers at the tomato shed, Beason visited the Smith family's farm. Leroy Smith, Chad Smith's father, challenged the senator to pick a bucket full of tomatoes and experience the labor-intensive work.

Beason declined but promised to see what could be done to help farmers while still trying to keep illegal immigrants out of Alabama.

Smith threw down the bucket he offered Beason and said, "There, I figured it would be like that."

Dear Scott Beason.... How Do You Feel About "Them" Now?

October 4, 2011 by Left in Alabama

Back in February, we wrote that "Scott Beason could use a little education about immigration," but of course, he knew more than church leaders, local law enforcement, county commissions, citizens standing in the "Beason Lines," or even those "Aborigines" in the state.  Now he's getting an earful from local business owners.  Reckon his hearing has improved?

Now the Whole State is Killing Time in the "Beason Line"

October 1, 2011 by Left in Alabama

Yesterday - September 30 - was the end of the month and a Friday, which meant that car tag renewal lines would be long.  But I was shocked when I passed the satellite office in Parkway Place Mall in Huntsville & saw over 70 people lined up.  The queue spilled out of the office, snaked down the hall, and blocked part of the Belk's store entrance.

I asked one woman near the front how long she'd been in line.  "Almost 3 hours," she said.  "This is a giant f@*kup."

When ADP chair Mark Kennedy spoke in Huntsville last month, he discussed the service cuts in Jefferson County due to Scott Beason killing the bill to preserve funding of county services.  Kennedy described plans to sell t-shirts to those in line:  "I MISSED WORK STANDING IN THE BEASON LINE." 

Scott Beason Gets Off Scot Free

September 27, 2011 by Left in Alabama

Senate Republicans have carefully considered Sen. Scott Beason's misbehaviors and decided that he deserves .... drum roll, please .... absolutely no punishment whatsoever.  Yeah, they're through making excuses for Beason -- they've formally decided to impose no consequences for Beason's bad behavior.  As usual, it's OK if you're a Republican (IOKIYAAR).