Recognizing his business success and community involvement, ADAA has selected Daphne dealer Chris Myers as its 2012 TIME Magazine Quality Dealer Award Winner. He will represent Alabama in the national TIME Dealer competition at the 2012 NADA Convention in February.
A Mississippi native, Chris, 65, graduated from the University of Southern Mississippi with a degree in business after having worked in his father’s dealership in Jackson. He also worked for Ford Motor Credit but decided he liked selling cars better than repossessing them!
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Scottsboro Ford-Chevrolet dealer Hoyt Harbin was elected Chairman of the Automobile Dealers Association of Alabama, Inc. at the recent convention in Destin, FL. Steve Watts, the dealer principal of Town and Country Ford in Bessemer and Town and Country Ford-Lincoln in Pell City, was elected Secretary-Treasurer.
Jimmy Smith, Jimmy Smith Buick-GMC in Athens and Smith Infinity of Huntsville, was elected First Vice Chairman, and Mike Schmitz, Mike Schmitz Automotive (Mercedes Benz, Hyundai, Mazda), Dothan, was elected Second Vice Chairman of the association.
Elected to a first term as District 7 Director was Donny Crowe, Tuscaloosa Chevrolet, Tuscaloosa. Reelected to second terms were District 5 Director Tracy Jones, Century Automotive Group, Huntsville; District 6 Director David Belcher, Royal Automotive, Vestavia Hills; Place 1 At Large Director Cathleen Anderson, Woody Anderson Ford, Huntsville; and Place 2 At Large Director Jeff Wiggins, Sonic Automotive, Montgomery.
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The new Republican majority in the Alabama Legislature made good on almost all of its “Handshake with Alabama” agenda passing numerous bills that, in the words of Senate President Pro Tem Del Marsh (R-Anniston), “showed lawmakers are committed to creating jobs and spurring economic growth, making state government more efficient and accountable to taxpayers, and keep the promises they made to the people of Alabama.”
Marsh and House Speaker Mike Hubbard (R-Auburn) worked closely to pass bills including economic incentives to create jobs, tort reform, teacher tenure reform, restrictions on immigrants, responsible budgeting, opt-out of Obamacare, ethics reform, and election reform.
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