How Citizens Stopped the I-10 Toll Proposal

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On May 12, 2019, I was ready with a plan to fight the irresponsible I-10 toll scheme by AlabamaÕs Governor and Department of Transportation. I started a Facebook group at no cost to organize the citizen opposition. We had one member Ð me.

Within three months, we had gained 50,000 members. Not just names on a list. Active, e-mailing, snail-mailing, telephoning, meeting-going, friend-inviting, Facebook-promoting members.

These citizen activists, most of them brand new to activism, fought and fought and — WON. On Aug. 28, 2019, the toll scheme was pronounced dead.

This book tells the story of how 50,000-plus citizens and I forced the toll scheme from an inevitable done deal to a dead deal. __Jim Zeigler, Alabama’s State Auditor

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