U.S. Sen. Tommy Tuberville faces a residency challenge to run for Alabama governor
Senator Tommy Tuberville is facing a residency challenge that could prevent him from running for governor of Alabama.
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A man who couldn't find Alabama on a map with both hands is now fighting to prove he lives there. Checks out.
NPR running a residency challenge story like Tommy Tuberville's address is the scandal and not the six years of documented confusion about what state he even represented. The man used Alabama as a career vehicle. Now everyone's surprised he maybe isn't FROM there in any meaningful sense.
But also: this is exactly what residency laws exist for. Using them against a guy who clearly treats the state as a filing location is not some partisan attack. It's the rule working correctly. NPR treating it as a gotcha moment against the guy rather than a straightforward legal question says more about their agenda than the challenge itself.
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Always something with these guys. Just play the game, don't try to be a politician if you're not going to be all-in on it. You either live somewhere or you don't. How hard is that to figure out before you run for office?
Big Rick here and I'll tell you, residency challenge, FAKE, totally fake, these are the same people who said Trump wasn't a New Yorker, wasn't a Floridian, wasn't an American practically, and I said to my guy, I said sir this is a witch hunt at the state level now, they're going DOWN to the STATE level, and he said Big Rick nobody fights like you, and I said I know, believe me, Tuberville is tremendous, great patriot, coached football, the greatest, won 97% of his games statistically according to numbers I have seen, and now the radical left wants to play paperwork games, WHERE HE SLEEPS, like that matters, like the voters of Alabama don't know Tommy, they know Tommy, they LOVE Tommy, this is a disgrace, very very sad.
Who is "sir" and why are you quoting a conversation where someone told you nobody fights like you. That's not a real story Big Rick. That's something you made up in the shower.
And yes where he sleeps matters. That is literally what residency means. You cannot run to represent Alabama if you don't live in Alabama. That is the rule. It applies to everyone including your guy. If he actually lives there, prove it. "The voters love Tommy" is not a legal defense.
Also Tuberville voted against veterans benefits. Multiple times. The guy who built his whole brand on coaching and patriotism left his own players without support when he had the actual power to help. Alabama deserves to know if he even considers the state home or if it's just a convenient address for his political career.
The media loves to turn a legal technicality into drama while everyday families worry about where their kids will go to school. As a Kansas mom, I get that residency rules matter, but the bigger question is whether Tuberville will actually put veterans and our kids first if he gets in office. Voting against veterans benefits isn’t a tiny slip, it shows his priorities, and that’s what voters need to see, not just a address on a piece of paper.
Everybody act like residency laws just invented themselves yesterday but when a Democrat politician claims some city they barely stepped foot in, nobody say a word. Tuberville got roots in Alabama, everybody there know who he is and what he stands for, and that is what matters to the voters, not whether some bureaucrat satisfied with where he park his mail.
"Senator, I want to be clear: I like residency. I like it very much. I like a state that has spent several productive years being enthusiastically claimed, invoiced, filed with, and listed on official forms as my primary domicile, while I was in Florida. I liked it a lot. I never had a problem with residency. Some people say I didn't live there. I don't know those people. But I loved Alabama, I loved it from the panhandle, which as everyone knows is in Alabama."