"I'm proud to represent Mobile County at the State House. I work hard every day to bring our community's conservative values to Montgomery and fight to ensure our voice is heard. With your support, I will continue to support smaller government and commonsense, pro-jobs policies that help our district's hardworking families."
Margie Wilcox
PLATFORM
VALUES / MARGIE WILCOX
Margie is the only candidate who was born and raised right here in South Mobile County. She was raised on the ball field and in the church by God fearing parents who blessed her with an amazing life. Today Margie is pro-life and pro-family and those phrases mean something. “My daughter is a beautiful young lady in college today facing all the challenges of the world and I find myself reminding her - If we don't have our values, then what do we have?," said Margie. That’s something each of us in office should be asking every day.
Margie is a charter member of St. Vincent de Paul Catholic Church. As a practicing Catholic she believes that we shouldn't be afraid to pray to God. Margie believes that we should embrace our faith and acknowledge that our country was founded recognizing a higher power.
Praying at home, in church, at school, or in the car is a way of life which we should embrace. We need more prayer, not less.
Margie grew up in Theodore and spent many of her weekends at Theodore Athletic Association Park (known by most as TAA). Margie believes that families should spend time together. A family who plays together, stays together. We need to make sure that we are putting our focus on the quality of life our families deserve. By ensuring that our parks are clean and safe and that our police have the resources and the laws to fight crime we can keep families together and our children safe. We need a stronger focus on families!
As a pro-life Catholic Margie believes that we need to take any and every step we can to stop abortion in our state.
JOBS / MARGIE WILCOX
Margie knows a lot about creating jobs! Margie built her business from the ground up, starting with nothing and growing her business into the largest privately owned transportation company in South Alabama.
In a transportation industry dominated by men, Margie broke the glass ceiling more than once as she built her company, negotiating with unions and governmental bureaucracy. Margie hasn't just been there, she is still there today working to grow her business.
She has the business background we need representing our district because she is one of us.
GOVERNMENT / MARGIE WILCOX
Transparency isn't enough - we need to put our government in a glass room, with glass walls and glass filing cabinets.
The more light we let in, the more we can fix. For more than 20 years Margie has served on the government relations committees of the Business Council of Alabama, Chamber, and transportation organizations. Some of the simplest legislation gets mired in silly political controversies.
Margie understands that we need to get our focus off the political gamesmanship and target our efforts on helping the people of Alabama.
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Reduce the size of government. There is no end to the progress we can make here. Like any large business there are always better efficiencies to be gained and fat to be cut. We need a permanent attrition policy in state government hiring.
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Publish everything.
The internet revolution makes public communication virtually free. Blogs, tweets, file sharing and cloud hosting are so cheap there is no reason we shouldn't publish every document created in state government.
We can fix our broken system but we need every eye ball in Alabama watching the money and the power to make sure we can stay on top of it.
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Stronger ethics laws.
Just a few years ago our republican leadership did a great job in passing new laws to improve our trust and confidence in elected leadership.
Unfortunately the loop holes have been found. Double dippers are still double dipping and the old revolving door is spinning even faster.
I am a cheerleader for the conservative leadership in our state and I want to join them with a push to close those holes and keep the promise to be the most honest and transparent leadership in the history of Alabama!
COMMITTEE
ASSIGNMENTS
Joint License Plate Oversight Committee
Chairman
Joint Transportation Committee
Rotates from Chair
to Vice Chair
County and Municipal Government
Vice Chairman
Transportation Utilities and Infrastructure
Member
Urban and Rural Development
Committee
Member
