Mesage From Shane

Congratulations to Gina Gregory, who won the district seven city council seat without a run-off. She said in the Mobile Register she wants to be the best city council person district seven has ever had, and judging from the dynamite campaign she ran I believe she will be. Good luck to Gina and she has my 100% support.

Now, a few words of encouragement passed along to those of us who took part in the race from someone who passed them to me:

"It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat."