Juilana Taylor is a wonderful woman and a great lawyer. She is devoted to her clients and is worried more about them than a dollar bill. If you ever need a great domestic lawyer that really cares, Juilana is your lawyer. I was surprised to see the Montgomery Advertiser cover this.
From the September 24, 2008 Advertiser:
City attorney blasts McCain’s economic stance
By Markeshia Ricks
A Montgomery attorney held a news conference Tuesday to say that Republican presidential hopeful Sen. John McCain’s views on the economy are out of touch with the lives of working families in Alabama.
Juilana Taylor, a lawyer who works with families and children, said McCain’s view that “the fundamentals of our economy are strong,” are so out of touch that she felt compelled to write him a letter about it.
“I would love to get a response,” Taylor said, during the news conference in the empty parking lot of the Montgomery Mall.
In the letter, Taylor details the struggles of the families she works with as they hold down multiple jobs to afford gas, food and school supplies for their children.
“In your world, senator, maybe the increases in food and gas and medicine and day care don’t have the same impact, but among the working families of my state and this country, the increases mean the difference in quality of life, safety and health,” she wrote. “You are fundamentally out of touch with this country’s working class if you don’t believe this economy is striking at the very heart of the American family.”
The news conference was held at the abandoned mall as a symbol of the shaky economy and hard times that people are experiencing. Other than Harper’s, a H. Councill Trenholm State Technical College-run restaurant that is open for lunch Tuesday’s and Wednesdays, the mall is empty. Steve and Barry’s, its last major store, closed its doors early this week.
“Ten years ago, people in Montgomery, Ala., were doing their Christmas shopping in this mall,” Taylor said. “The economy is hit every day by the fact that people can’t spend money on luxuries, or things that they need or desire because they have to pay for things like food and gas.”
Jim Spearman, executive director of the Alabama Democratic Party, said the mall is exemplary of the deterioration of the middle class in America and Alabama and a by-product of eight years under the financial policies of the Bush administration.
“The evidence of the failed economic policies of George W. Bush is present in the closing of the Montgomery Mall, which has been a fixture in our community for many years,” he said.
A random telephone survey by the mobile Press-Register and the University of South Alabama Polling Group found 52 percent of those voters surveyed support McCain, while 30 percent back Obama. Undecided voters, or those supporting someone else, represented 13 percent of the 406 people surveyed.
Maverick Roberts, an Obama supporter, said he believes those undecided voters will come around by election time.
“We’re being flooded with more people who are excited about this election,” he said.
Alabama Republican Party spokesman Philip Bryan said Democrats are grasping at straws and the poll shows that McCain’s views are in line with the views of Alabamians.
“Sen. McCain’s views on the issues and the Republican view of the issues are more in line with the views of the people of Alabama,” he said. “Whether it’s education, keeping taxes lower — issue by issue McCain is stronger and more in line with the conservative values of Alabama.”
Bryan also pointed out that the state Democratic Party’s candidate for the District 2 congressional race, Montgomery Mayor Bobby Bright, has been at the wheel during the Montgomery Mall’s long road to ruin. Bright is running against Republican state Rep. Jay Love for the seat that is being vacated by retiring U.S. Rep. Terry Everett.
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