Slade Blackwell

Blackwell earned his B.S. in commercial design and business from the University of Montevallo. His professional experience includes working as the acquisitions and development manager for Colonial Properties Trust and starting the real estate development business Inkana Development.

Blackwell's website highlighted the following campaign issues:[3]

Economic Development

Excerpt: "Economic development equals jobs; jobs equal family-sustaining wages and tax revenue that leads to more prosperity for our area and state."

Smoking Ban

Excerpt: "I think it is time people start showing some personal responsibility in taking care of themselves. Let the customer and the owner make the decision about smoking in the restaurant-government has enough to deal with today."

Electronic Bingo

Excerpt: "I am personally against electronic bingo plus all other forms of gambling and the corruption it breeds."

County Commission Relations

Excerpt: "I believe a stronger relationship between the County Commissioners and our State Legislators would be a step in the right direction toward finding resolutions to issues affecting our District and State. "

Solving the Jefferson County Sewer Crisis

Excerpt: "I have worked hard to help find a solution to the Jefferson County sewer crisis... This is one of the main reasons I’m running for the District 15 Senate seat."

Education

Excerpt: "Education is at the forefront of my agenda and support for our schools is a top priority. Furthermore, it affects every single aspect of our ability to live well now and into the future. "

Campaign Finances

Excerpt: "Alabama definitely should ban PAC to PAC transfers. Such transfers promote hiding funds and make it difficult to discover who is actually contributing to candidates and their causes. "

Taxes

Excerpt: "Raising taxes is counterproductive to a stable economy, and I stand firmly against it."

Sales Tax on Food

Excerpt: "I support a reduction in government spending and removal of the sales tax on food."

Constitutional Reform

Excerpt: "In a state facing corruption at almost all level of government, a convention to re-write Alabama's Constitution at this time would be extremely difficult... There are major changes that need to be made, and I support amending or repealing specific sections of the Constitution."

Ethics and Values

Excerpt: "We need men and women with the courage to act on their own convictions; we need independent thinkers who place their principles and values above party politics..."

Abortion

Excerpt: "I am a Conservative Christian and oppose abortion. Simply put, I believe in the sanctity of life and that it should be protected."