BIRMINGHAM SUSPENSE

We were not sure how to read the lack of response when we emailed Birmingham City Commissioner Katie Schafer a month ago to confirm what some told us was “common knowledge” that she was not going to seek another term of office on the November ballot this year, due to both family and medical practice considerations. Her term of office and those of Andrew Haig and Jason Emerine expire this November. Now we hear that some members of the commission are lobbying her to make a run for a second term. We also hear from a couple of people that when they reached out to the laundry list of people who applied for appointment to the commission, which went to Emerine, they ran into a wall of reluctance because many of those folk were not thrilled with the thought of serving with a couple of current members of the commission. The filing deadline is this July.

Katie Schafer