No step too high for a high steppin’ billion dollar spendin’ red state governor …

Check out Kyle Whitmire’s column: Kay Ivey’s billion-dollar surprise – al.com

Whitmire writes: “When Kay Ivey first ran for governor, she campaigned with folksy ads in which she said cutely cryptic things.

“There’s no step too high for a high-stepper,” Ivey said at every opportunity.

Related: ‘High-stepper’ Kay Ivey has gone off the deep end – al.com

Related: Poor Kay Ivey. She thinks Joe Biden is running for governor of Alabama – al.com

Related: Kay Ivey believes in the right to flee speech – al.com

And most folks laughed and moved along without asking an important question: What the heck does that even mean?

Now we know. “High” is the price. And it’s what you and I will pay for Alabama prisons.

On Wednesday, the governor gave her approval to raise what Alabama will pay for a new 4,000-bed mega-prison in Elmore County.

Almost $1 billion.

And as a high-stepper, Kay Ivey doesn’t care if there’s breathable air up here. The cost will keep going up and there’s no limit to what we might have to pay.

Read all of Whitmire’s column here

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JD Crowe is the cartoonist for Alabama Media Group and AL.com. He won the RFK Human Rights Award for Editorial Cartoons in 2020. In 2018, he was awarded the Rex Babin Memorial Award for local and state cartoons by the Association of American Editorial Cartoonists. Follow JD on Facebook, Twitter @Crowejam and Instagram @JDCrowepix.

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