Jefferson County

So it'll take care of all that Bradford to Palmerdale traffic.

Now, If it's finished according to plan, it'll end up being 52 miles of interstate connecting I-459 in Bessemer to I-59 in Northeast Jefferson County.

The latest estimated budget for the project comes in at $6.19 billion.

It may or may not be finished in our lifetimes, depending on how seasoned we are.

We'll eventually see Allison this week.

We can't wait to hear all about her trip, but you know what we have for now? We are joined by Phillip Brown, who is the chairman of the Jefferson County GOP.

We're going to cover a couple of things.

One is an event that's coming up.

correct, Friday night.

And unfortunately, it's football Friday night in the Birmingham area, so.

I know we're going to have a little competition with Hoover and Jefferson County and Birmingham football.

It is what it is.

He's made a trip to New York, uh, for September 11th for the remembrance ceremonies.

And, uh, here recently we know, uh, he retired from Hoover, and then went on to, uh, be the first, uh, career fire chief of Morris Fire Department in Jefferson County.

Uh, welcome to the show there, Sock.

Thanks, guys.

And, um, and I share our responsibilities in that with Mount Olive, which is r- ... you know, our neighbor department, one of our neighboring departments.

And, you know, hey, just to, you know, thump y'all right here, maybe the association needs to look at adding something.

You know, what can we do in here in our Jefferson County Association? Um, can we put ...

Can we commit to an engine company which us and Mount Olive have? Can we commit to your tanker? Can we commit to can you give me an EMT to ride the transport when it's my turn to do?

AL.com's Greg Garrison reported on both stories.

Now, in Jefferson County, a jury awarded the sheriff's brother a $7 million verdict in his case against 1819 News and a local political official.

Now, that's $6 million in punitive damages and $1 million in compensatory damages.

The jury agreed with the plaintiffs that news stories about Bruce Petway were part of a political effort to defame him and his brother, Jefferson County Sheriff Mark Petway.

Sheriff Petway is a Democrat, and 1819 News is a right-wing publication.

The damages are for harm to Bruce Petway's reputation, loss of business opportunities, and mental anguish.

Jefferson County Republican Party Chairman Christopher Brown appeared two years ago on the Alabama's Morning News with JT talk radio show.

The lawsuit claimed that he intentionally defamed Petway's reputation by linking him to illegal bingo operations and that 1819 News published those same statements.

You need to know your tax.

I've seen a lot of people sell properties, and on the spreadsheet it has like homestead tax, whereas here in Birmingham, non-homestead tax is double what homestead tax is in Jefferson County.

And so you need to know these things so that you can adequately run your numbers and know, hey, this is what I can expect.

Again, this kind of comes back to high expectations.

Here in Birmingham, I think now we have two.

I think we have Birmingham Section 8.

We have Jefferson County Section 8.

But there used to be like Bessemer Section 8 and.

Well, we're not talking about – maybe with the exception of the 2nd Congressional District and some places up in Huntsville, it seems like it's going to go like it always goes.

Yeah, except that the third place I think you should have mentioned is Jefferson County because there are some people in the Homewood, Hoover, Mountain Brook, Vestavia area who believe that they know – what's right and best and that a lot of the elected officials have not been representing them because they feel like they need to be um the bastions of um freedom for their communities and and they are the ones that i think could end up having replacements in the legislature having some republicans some of whom have been there for a while beaten by democrats there is going to be a lot of enthusiasm for doug jones and for his campaign and he is very smart very well organized he's an outstanding communicator makes it more difficult on coach than we would have hoped for it to have been but they came out with the messages about the um the ai centers and uh doing all of the things that they are known to be polling um well for democrats and just concentrating on those issues instead of concentrating on what we know democratic issues are which they're trying to stay away from so They won't be tied to those things.

Well, tell me, you know, you made a bid for Republican Party chairman.

I don't think we're going the way of Georgia.