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What happens when Richard Shelby leaves office? Alabama Senator’s influence seen in massive spending bill

Rickey Stokes

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Date: Dec 27 2020 10:06 PM


Just today in a conversation someone asked me what was Alabama going to do when United States Senator Richard Shelby leaves the Senate.

 

Tonight I noticed where AL.com wrote a article concerning the same question I was asked.


In my conversation I told him some of the supporters of Senator Richard Shelby. He and a very close friend who is a Dothan businessman, I have seen them at Hunt's in Dothan eating dinner.

 

There is no doubt that Alabama will be negatively impacted when the longest serving member of the United State Senate retires. As I told a business leader one day our community, our state, needs to employ a "political strategist" for our state and national elected officials rather than hire a lobbyist. The political strategist will help place "our" elected officials into positions of getting things accomplished.


Politics is a game. The House of Cards, a true story of how the political world works. When someone new arrives it takes time to learn how to move around and make accomplishments. And you can trust no one.


To the one who asked me today, this is an interesting read...


FROM AL.COM






The latest omnibus spending package approved by Congress, but not yet signed by President Donald Trump, included millions of dollars to assist the Port of Mobile with ongoing dredging projects. It also included the addition of the same type of warship typically built at Austal USA’s Mobile facility.


Millions more went for funding for military bases in the Wiregrass, space exploration and defense spending in Huntsville and medical research on universities campuses throughout the state.


The massive 2021 federal appropriations plan, according to political observers and politicians, underscored the power and influence on Capitol Hill of Alabama’s longest-serving senator, Richard Shelby, even if the entire package remained in limbo as of Sunday. Trump trashed the $1.4 trillion package on Tuesday for not providing enough money in direct payments to Americans struggling through the COVID-19 pandemic. He encouraged senators to get rid of the “pork.”




Trump even trashed some of the projects that were listed in a detailed news release by Shelby’s office released early this week. Among those specifically cited by the president was $7 million in reef fish management that benefits red snapper management in the Gulf of Mexico.





But some politicians viewed the laundry list of projects as further evidence of the senator’s imprint on federal influence for Alabama.








With Shelby’s political life coming to a possible end within two years, political observers are also harkening on the phrase: You don’t know what you got until its gone.


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