Ryan Cagle is everything we all say we want in a candidate for public office.
He’s engaged with the local community and plugged in like few candidates you’ll ever meet. He’s mostly apolitical when he speaks, never focusing on partisan rhetoric or tired talking points derived from national issues that have been audience tested and polled repeatedly. He’s an ordained minister who speaks with kindness and compassion, and he encourages dialogue and an exchange of ideas.
His campaign for office has almost exclusively focused on aiding the working poor in Walker, Fayette, Lamar, Jefferson and Tuscaloosa counties. He’s engaged with unions and workers. He’s talked about saving local hospitals. He’s led the charge against a Walker County Sheriff’s Office that has proven to be horribly mismanaged and corrupt…