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Tyrone Williams Sr.

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Birmingham City Council District 2

Tyrone Williams

Tyrone Williams Sr.

Age: 69

Residence: Roebuck Springs

Political experience: First run for political office.

Professional experience: Retired school administrator and hearing officer for the Birmingham City Schools. He began working for the system in 1972.

Education: Graduate, Hayes High School; bachelor’s, South Carolina State University; master’s, Alabama A&M University; juris doctorate, Miles College School of Law.

Civic experience:  Williams has served on the Jefferson County Planning and Zoning Board, the Birmingham Police Community Relations Committee, the boards for the League of Women Voters of Greater Birmingham, the Birmingham Chapter of the NAACP and GASP. He is a member of the Birmingham Business Alliance and the Birmingham Retired Education Alliance

Top Contributors: James A. and Beatrice Johnson, $500; Perryn and Mike Carroll, $300.

Main issues: Williams has said every neighborhood matters and has the same problems: roads, dilapidated housing, overgrown fields. He said those issues need to be addressed citywide.

Campaign: https://www.facebook.com/tyrone.williams.169405

 

Williams did not respond to BirminghamWatch’s questionnaire.

 

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  • Did a reporter really ask that question?

    It’s about five hours after a cargo ship hit the Key Bridge in Baltimore, collapsing it and sending six construction workers on the bridge into the water. The city’s mayor is holding a press conference when a reporter asks him: “How long is it going to take to rebuild the bridge?”

    Calmly and immediately, the mayor responds: “We shouldn’t even be having that discussion right now. The discussion right now should be about the people, the souls, the lives that we’re trying to save. There will be a time to discuss about a bridge and how we get our bridge back up but right now there are people in the water that we have to get out.”

    On social media, the mayor got mostly applause. The reporter got mostly ripped apart. One X poster wrote: “Shoutout to our mayor Brandon Scott for focusing on the people and showcasing empathy, because the nerve of that reporter to ask about the bridge repair. Like, sir read the (expletive) room.”

    I understand why many people saw the reporter’s question as disrespectful to the victims. But I don’t have a problem with it. How about you? Read more.

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