Eugene Edelman

Eugene Edelman is a retired Birmingham City Schools teacher and university professor. He is an active participant on talk radio shows under the names "The Bean Counter" and "Robert from Shoal Creek".

Edelman is a critic of Operation New Birmingham, calling it "Operation New White People" and complaining that it gets funding to encourage white residents to move downtown while doing nothing for the city's decaying neighborhoods.

The fact that income tax was deducted from his buy-out from the Birmingham Board of Education led him to blame Birmingham mayor Bernard Kincaid. He entered the 2003 Birmingham mayoral election to unseat him, but finished 16th in the field of 18 with only 54 of the 44,806 votes cast.

References

• Reynolds, Ed (September 11, 2003) "Rhetorical Flourish" Black & White