Daily Inspiration Quote by Alan Autry

A little paternal, a little promotional, the line reads like a campaign promise built to fit on a bumper sticker: “must,” “new ways,” “jobs,” “industry,” “our community.” Alan Autry isn’t trying to sound poetic; he’s trying to sound inevitable. The urgency of “must” frames employment not as one policy goal among many but as the mayor’s defining moral duty. It quietly implies that the current approach has failed or stalled, without needing to name culprits or pick a fight on camera.

The phrase “new ways” is the real tell. It flatters voters who feel left behind by suggesting the problem isn’t the community’s character, it’s the method. It also gives Autry room to maneuver: “new” can mean innovative incentives, business-friendly reforms, redevelopment deals, or simply a different style of leadership. It’s strategic vagueness that invites people across the spectrum to project their preferred solution onto him.

“Bring jobs and industry” signals a particular economic nostalgia: not just employment, but the return of stable, visible anchors - factories, warehouses, recognizable employers - the kind of growth you can point to, not just metrics you read about. “Our community” wraps it in belonging, positioning the mayor as a broker between outsiders with capital and locals who want security.

Coming from an actor-turned-politician, it also plays to a performative expectation of leadership: the mayor as protagonist, actively “seeking,” hunting opportunity, delivering results. The subtext is competence as action, not ideology - a promise to hustle on behalf of a town that feels it shouldn’t have to beg for prosperity.