Following up on an article we published May 24 regarding Cordova, Alabama, Mayor Jack Scott’s insistence on keeping Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) homes out of Cordova, The Birmingham News reports that 200 people showed up for a city council meeting to protest the ban, many venting their frustrations. Mayor Scott suggested residents consider buying modular homes, which are allowed in the city, and one resident said the best price she could find was $105,000, not within the means of many Cordova residents. At one point tempers flared, and when Mayor Scott threatened to have people ejected from the meeting, he was told to get out. Zoning board member Fred Porter said anyone who lived in a single section manufactured home would be grandfathered in as long as they had a permit. However, Mayor Scott did not relent on changing the ordinance, but said the matter would be taken under consideration.
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Obama or someone in a higher position than Scott needs to take charge of the situation and remind him that his job is for the people and by the people. Those in power should represent the best of us as human beings not the worst. Situations like this are a cause for the common man to take up arms. If those in power do not meet the needs of the people then it is left to the people to show them that their position is merely an illusion of power that is allowed to exist as long as it meets it’s duties!