Decatur, Ala. | Friday, May 24, 2013
Race for mayor: Gail Busbey
Candidate weighs in on schools, downtown, council, referendum
After a 42-year career at City Hall, Gail Busbey wants to make history by becoming the city’s first female mayor. After retiring amid a swirl of controversy three years ago, Busbey, 63, is … More »
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Elect Busby and we can save money by closing the library. We won't need it, because she knows everything.

YES to MAYOR BUSBEY!! FOR the GOOD of DECATUR!!!

Judging by her answers, she knows nothing about how a city planning department works. I believe that she genuinely cares for the City of Decatur, but she has not been able to prove that she is any more capable than Don Kyle or Don Stanford. I appreciate her passion for Decatur (and I wish that there were more like her), but she really needs to learn that you cannot compare experience in Cullman to what you MIGHT be able to do in Decatur.

I'm usually not a naysayer, but I have got to say that zoning ordinances aren't so easily understood as she makes them seem.

Busbey has my vote. 42 years experience and a plan that will move Decatur forward. BUSBEY FOR MAYOR!

When did she get married??

gail is the best qualified, most informed candidate, and has the most desire to serve.....decatur has been victim of the ignorant for too long

What is the deal with the long sleeve black shirts in the middle of summer? Not great "planning".

First, I bet if you talked with City Employees, and they are under a gag order not to talk, they would not be thrilled to have her at city hall. Also, the embezzler was under her department and supervision when the embezzlement occurred. Ms. Busbey failed to implement sound accounting controls to prevent this from happening. There should have been good checks and balances in place. She can blame others all day long, but she had a responsibility in what happened. She should have been fired over it. Look to other candidates to lead Decatur to the a better future.

come on. when are 6 elected dufuses with no city engineering experience going to know more on paving streets than the city engineer.

I hear Ernestine Fletcher is gonna vote for Busby and try to get her job back. Ernestine took $300,000 from the city under Busby's nose.... so much for great mmanagementt skills.

Most city employees I have spoken with are voting for Gail. She has the experience to run the city.

Most city employees I have spoken with are voting for Gail. She has the experience to run the city.

William I wear long sleeve shirts also to keep the sun off my skin. Most of my neighbors wear long sleeves when mowing grass in the hot sun. Are you calling me being safe and not wanting to get skin cancer NOT PLANNING? Think before you post such STUPID comments please.

Bobby since you seem to know City Employees so well, please just name us ONE that does not want Busbey working with them? Just ONE. The ones that I have spoken with (have you spoken with anyone of them?) are very excited to have Busbey for Mayor. Most of you men that are so against Busbey in office are the same men that think a womans place is in the home. This MAN knows Busbey is qualified, knows the city business, has 40+ years EXPERIENCE and will do a wonderful job representing Decatur. Go ahead men, go vote for Standford and have more years of the same of NOTHING! This MAN with my wife and family are VOTING BUSBEY. And if you would find out the TRUTH you would find out all this bad stuff you want to type here is NOT true. Do your research before you type what you "read" somewhere. GAIL BUSBEY FOR MAYOR!

Busbey for Mayor? Yeah, right. Let's put someone in who had $300K snatched out from under their nose.

"Jimmy from", you're crazier than h*** there may be 1 or 2 that would want her back..but that would be about all you could come up with! She's saying she would like to run city hall like Dukes!!?? Welcome back to the "dark ages"!! Now, that's a real plan!!!

Busbey is Billy Jackson's pawn. He is pulling the strings here.

Gail, mr and mrs davis live in Trinity, are you running for mayor in decatur or trinity?

Obviously you have to consider the source here. The Decatur Daily. They are supporting Busbey. Of course she is going to provide answers to these questions that everyone wants to hear. Lip service is what good politicians are best at giving. Any professional that has ever dealt with Busbey at a city government level knows that this is NOT a good fit for mayor MAN! And furthermore, anyone that Billy Jackson and Ronny supports should be enough to cause the masses to turn out to vote against her. These people are a cancer to this city and this is exactly why no one in their right mind wants to be an elected official in the city of Decatur.

Obviously you have to consider the source here. The Decatur Daily. They are supporting Busbey. Of course she is going to provide answers to these questions that everyone wants to hear. Lip service is what good politicians are best at giving. Any professional that has ever dealt with Busbey at a city government level knows that this is NOT a good fit for mayor MAN! And furthermore, anyone that Billy Jackson and Ronny supports should be enough to cause the masses to turn out to vote against her. These people are a cancer to this city and this is exactly why no one in their right mind wants to be an elected official in the city of Decatur.

The voter took one woman out of the kitchen and put her in the Morgan County sheriff's office and now look at the mess she's in. You want to take another one out of the kitchen and have her mess up the city of Decatur???

So she wants to take Wally Terry out of a position he has done a fabulous job at and put him in charge of recruiting businesses? Isn't that what the Chamber of Commerce is for?

I think Gail Busby would make a great mayor for the city. She has worked with multiple mayors, seen the good, bad and ugly. She has also seen what works and what doesn't. I to know a majority of city employees. The only ones that I know that do not want her in this position are the ones that are afriad for their positions.

Gail was one of the things that didn't work. She just got away with it for a very long time.

Her sex has nothing to do with the job, or her qualifications. The fact that Ms. Fletcher embezzled a large sum over a long time, in Gail's office, has everything to do with it.

Most city employees I know - and I do knew several - would be appalled to have her back as their boss. She would use the office like a despot to take revenge on her perceived enemies. And Charles is right - it's the chamber of commerce's job, and the economic development office's job, to recruit business. That's why those offices were formed. The city is already contributing to their services - why pay more people to do the same job?

Orville, You Sound Like You Really Hate Women Being In AuIthorty sp?, You Must Live In The Dark Ages, As For As The Sheriff, She Has Not Messed Anything Up. She Has Done a Grat Job, And Still Is Doing A Great Job, You Sound Like You Really Hate Women

Our Sheriff has done a great job. Gail also will do a great job. Gail has the experience none of the others have. Orville I would love to know your meaning of Sheriff Franklin messing anything up? She is busting meth labs on a DAILY basis. You need to get out of the 1930's.

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