"What a person says and what they do are two different things," he said in an interview this afternoon. "You can't promise a committee to two different folks. It's a quid pro quo. It's something for something."
The quote is from Councilman Steven Hoyt, who changed his vote at the last minute, dropping his support of Carole Smitherman for the position of Interim Mayor (The Magic City lost its mayor---Larry Langford---to a jail cell, when he accepted bribes). She's crying foul, saying he promised he would vote for her. He says he found out she was promising to name someone else to a committee chair position he wanted.
Anyway...what do you say? Should he be applauded for laying it all out in the open? But isn't quid pro quo---something for something--exactly what put Langford behind bars?
You gotta love Birmingham politics.
Hoyt is one of the reasons why I live in Hoover. He has an ego as big as the universe.
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