Tim James IS an asshole. I found this earlier tonight:

“In 2004, James and his brothers entered into a deal with Orange Beach, Alabama to build a toll bridge over the Intracoastal Waterway. Although analysts expect the city to profit from the deal beginning in 2014 the city is presently having to borrow money to meet the terms of the arrangement. James no longer owns the bridge but sold it to an Australian company for $70 million. As of December 2009 the city had paid the company almost twice the amount the city collected in revenues from the bridge.” *

He clipped Orange Beach for 70 million and left them beholding to some business in a foreign country. 70 million bucks to sell something he didn’t own in the first place to someone who has no business owning it, and the residents left with nothing but the bill. I guess its good work if you can get it.

Last time he ran, he was beat like the family mule. So he’s brought in some “insiders” this time around. John Saltsman, who was the national campaign chairman for Mike Huckabee, is a senior adviser to his campaign.

Tim James’ bit about getting rid of multi-lingual testing would cost federal subsidies that go to the DMV for the program, so rather than saving money as he would lead us to believe, it will end up costing Alabamians more as the burden for maintaining the DMV would have to be paid from the state coffers.

The nut doesn’t fall far from the tree, either. Fob tried to refuse Federal education dollars and seceded from the National Governor’s Association. The last time his daddy was Governor, Fob wanted to put a warning on any school textbook that taught the theory of evolution, and he threatened to call out the National Guard against the Fed when they told Judge Roy Moore to remove the Ten Commandments.

* Ryan Dezember (December 18, 2009). “Bridge traffic declines again; Traffic on Toll Bridge drops BEACH EXPRESS” (in English) (newspaper). Mobile Register (Mobile, Alabama): p. A1.