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Stimpson takes door down, says ‘we’re open’

Posted by Ashley Trice | Nov 5, 2013 | News | 2 |

During the mayoral campaign, Sandy Stimpson said if elected, on his second day in office he would take down the mayor’s door. Not only did he do that on Nov. 5, he removed even more barriers.

As staff, councilors and local media watched, Stimpson used an electric drill to take down the wooden door to the mayor’s office.

Mobile Mayor Sandy Stimpson, who was sworn in the day before, fulfills a campaign promise by removing the door to the mayor’s office Nov. 5, 2013.
Mayor Sandy Stimpson removes the door from his new office.
Mobile Mayor Sandy Stimpson, who was sworn in the day before, fulfilled a campaign promise by removing the door to the mayor’s office Nov. 5, 2013. He also removed privacy curtains shielding the mayor’s conference room.

“Some of you may think this is just a symbolic measure, and it is in a way, but this is about the City Council knowing they have access to the mayor. It’s not just the City Council, but also the city employees and citizens,” Stimpson said.

The mayor also said the two bulletproof glass doors leading to the mayor’s office would remain open. Those doors are controlled by an electronic system in which an access card or button must be used in order to open the doors.

“It’s again to send the signal we’re open,” Stimpson said.

The openness didn’t stop there. The conference room for the mayor previously had curtains over the glass doors leading into the room.

Stimpson took the curtains off and said, “Now everyone can see who is meeting in here.”

The mayor spoke to Mobilians about openness as well.

“I would challenge the citizens of Mobile to think about the doors you’ve got in your life and think about taking them down,” Stimpson said. “If we want to be one Mobile, that’s going to be necessary.”

 

 

 

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About The Author

Ashley Trice

Ashley Trice

Ashley Trice is the editor and publisher of Lagniappe Weekly, which she co-founded with fellow publisher Rob Holbert in July 2002. Lagniappe has steadily grown from a 5,000 circulation biweekly into the 30,000 weekly newspaper it is today. Originally from Jackson, Alabama, she graduated cum laude from the University of South Alabama in 2000 with a BA in communications and did some post graduate work at the University of Texas. She was in the 2011 class of Mobile Bay Monthly’s 40 Under 40. She is the recipient of the 2003 Award for Excellence in In-Depth Reporting by the Mobile Press Club and for Humorous Commentary by the Society of Professional Journalists in 2010 and 2018. In 2015, she won a national writing award presented by the Association of Alternative Newsmedia for “Best Column.” She won the Alabama Press Association Award for Best Editorial Column in 2017, Best Humor Column in 2018 and Best Editorial Column in 2019. She is married to Frank Trice and they live in Midtown with their children Anders and Ellen, their dog Remy and a fish named Taylor Swift.

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