“We’re getting attacked by my opponent who is desperate and pathetic.”

Those words from Tim James in a conference call this afternoon in reaction to a new Bradley Byrne commercial.

“The man is lying through his teeth,” Tim James says about his Republican rival for the nomination for governor.

The commercial calls James involvement in the private Foley Beach Express a Montgomery insider deal made possible by the fact James father, Fob James, was governor at the time. Byrne also takes issue with James claims about public funding. While federal dollars were used, the Byrne camp maintains James has previously boasted no public funds were used.

Former Foley engineer  Dave Rowell and  former mayor now probate judge Tim Russell, joined James on the conference call today.

“It would have been tougher,” James says, had Foley not secured federal funding that built the 7 1/2 miles of road that connects the toll bridge/road. Still, Tim James insists his father’s influence played no role in the project and funding was not complete until 6 months after Fob James had left office.

Foley’s former mayor says it was, in fact, also difficult to be involved in a project that involved the son of a governor because of caution from Montgomery.

Russell says “in my 61 years this project has been one of the most successful public works projects for south Baldwin county.”

James started the day with a campaign stop in Vestavia Hills where he called on Byrne to apologize to his father, the former governor, for questioning the integrity of an “honest man.”

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