Video: Birmingham’s acting mayor fires chief of staff Deborah Vance-Bowie

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BIRMINGHAM, Ala.—- Acting Birmingham Mayor Carole Smitherman has fired Deborah Vance-Bowie as mayoral chief of staff over the handling of the city’s $20 million budget shortfall.

Kevin Moore has been named interim mayoral chief of staff.

Smitherman at a news conference today said that former City Finance Director Steve Sayler said he told Vance-Bowie the city’s budget was in trouble in June, not three weeks ago like Vance-Bowie has claimed.

Smitherman also said that department heads claim former Birmingham Mayor Larry Langford knew about the budget shortfall.

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Flag Comment Posted by Hugh on November 05, 2009 at 2:35 pm

Birmingham will flipping rock now to get that money back now. Drive safe everybody because traffic control will be in full effect. But the truth is Vance is a scape goat and Smitherman knows it. That woman was doing what she was told by the big goat Larry Langford. It test my patients when someone trys to play me for simpleton. We in Birmingham have been watching the money disappear for the longest. Acting surprised and shock then fire somebody make the person doing the firing look like a opportunist and shallow. Now if we in the public knew what was happening to money why could Smitherman. And they wonder why people are moving out Birmingham thousands at a time.

Flag Comment Posted by JimCapano on November 05, 2009 at 12:36 pm

CONGRATULATIONS to Interim Mayor Carole Smitherman! I WILL NOT be surprised at anything else which might be revealed!

Flag Comment Posted by jmill on November 05, 2009 at 12:07 pm

And who is surprised by this? This is just a start of finding out what all has been going on. Birmingham needs to start over new with every body. Fire them all elect new ones to take their place they they may get to the bottom of all the people with their hands in the till.

Flag Comment Posted by Pyrojohn on November 05, 2009 at 10:32 am

Time to clean house top to bottom

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