If you know a Real tor, especial ly one who would see this as a way to improve the professional ism of the majority of land lords, ask him or her to lend a hand in support of this bill. H.B. 118, the constitutional amendment to allow gas taxes to be spent on public transportation, died in House Rules Committee waiting to be scheduled for floor vote. Victim of intra-party feud. H.B. 99, re-drafted in negotiations with Home Builders Assn. Arise now negotiating with Realtors, trying for agreement in time for special session.
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Gov. Siegelman con tinues to deny that he will undertake comprehensive reform next year, but a leaked memo says he will. Walking to work one morn ing, I asked a worker why they were ripping up a lane of a perfect ly good road. We considered the franchise tax crisis the per fect opportunity to get Alabama to tackle tax reform, and said so to the press in March. We started to take it personal ly, then realized that some of his best allies were saying just what we said.