Rep. John Rogers (D-Birmingham), chairman of the Black Legislative Caucus, is on the road to Eutaw where he will join other members to call for job creation in Greene county.

“If you are going to take jobs away, you’ve got to replace those jobs,” Rogers says of the Governor’s Task Force on Illegal Gambling.

The task force arrested 16 people, including fellow caucus member Sen. Bobby Singleton (D-Greensboro), this morning during a prolonged raid of Greenetrack.

While wearing hand cuffs and sitting on a white Department of Corrections bus, Singleton called the arrest “symbolic” in a telephone interview live on FOX6 WBRC Good Day Alabama.

Rogers says he’s “outraged” by the actions of “two bullies picking on the little people of this state.”

Those bullies, Rogers says, are Gov. Bob Riley and his task force commander, John Tyson.

Greene county unemployment is 13.2%

The state unemployment is currently 10.8%.

Rogers and fellow caucus members plan to call for increased efforts by the governor for economic development in Greene county following the loss of jobs from the raid of Greenetrack.

Rogers says Riley is spending time fighting for jobs lost due to the BP gusher on the Gulf Coast.

“He should be fighting for them everywhere in the state.”

The caucus news conference takes place at 1pm at Greenetrack.

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