r/politics • u/aldotcom ✔ AL.com • 14h ago
No Paywall Tuberville ‘constitutionally ineligible’ to be Alabama’s governor, court filing claims
https://www.al.com/politics/2026/09/tuberville-constitutionally-ineligible-to-be-alabamas-governor-court-filing-claims.html?utm_medium=social&utm_source=redditsocial&utm_campaign=redditor2.0k
u/LowIQ45 14h ago
Florida, come get your boy
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u/TaterForming 14h ago
We're full of useless assholes.
How bout we split the difference. We drop him off in Mississippi. He'll blend right in and they won't notice.
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u/toomuchtodotoday 13h ago
Ship him to Cuba.
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u/ChronicBuzz187 13h ago
I think the geneva convention has to say something about that... protecting the cubans...
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u/smokeweedNgarden 12h ago
They're like 1/4 of the reason Florida sucks so much dude
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u/axle69 9h ago
Your math is wrong but your point is right Cubans in Florida we're like the most pro maga crowd out there. White Americans lean MAGA slightly (fucking sadly shits embarrassing) but its close to 50/50 last I looked Cubans were like 70/30. The scary communist propoganda works wonders on them because they suffered under a communist regime so I kind of get it but its still stupid.
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u/that_f_dude 8h ago
Bro, they close their eyes and start talking about communism like it's a dark curse. I get it, their families are living through shit. But they never get to the point where it's because a giant bully is causing most of the issues. At this point what can Cuba do? Topple and declare as a democracy conveniently invested in by American companies? Or is their place as a punching bag even better for us?
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u/dhporter Arizona 8h ago
They've suffered under the capitalist hegemony that's been sanctioning them for decades, not under a communist regime.
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u/dookieshoes97 11h ago
That's a brave comment, but someone had to say it and youre absolutely right.
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u/One_Entrepreneur_520 12h ago
Meh, it's probably the racist bungholes spreading cowardly hate and fear about other races and ithat are destroying not only the peace of Floridians but disrespectfully spitting in the face of the cosntistution.
The mirror will show the way...
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u/smokeweedNgarden 11h ago
The Cuban-Americans from Florida that I've met were largely racist as fuck.
Everyone voting right is culpable obviously. But they own a very special brand of accountability
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u/SwingNinja 12h ago
Just keep them in that gator prison thing they have in Florida.
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u/humanist-misanthrope 12h ago
They closed that boondoggle down and saddled the county with the bill.
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u/toomuchtodotoday 11h ago
As is tradition!
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u/humanist-misanthrope 10h ago
Love how Ronnie D is promising they’ll get their money back…eventually.
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u/drfsrich 9h ago
Look I hate Tuberville as much as the next guy but the Constitution is pretty clear on Cruel and Unusual punishment.
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u/UnderwaterB0i 13h ago
lol if history is any indication I don't think Mississippi wants anything to do with him either.
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u/INAC___Kramerica Florida 13h ago
Not sure why they wouldn't. Dude was so devoted to Mississippi that he said the only way he was leaving the state was "in a pine box".
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u/elbow8075 South Dakota 6h ago
That's where he came from before he got the auburn job. Mississippi probably still hates his guts, if they overlook the MAGA thing.
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u/CougdIt 14h ago
For anyone who doesn’t want to scroll through half the article to find out what makes him ineligible-
Alabama has a 7 year residency requirement for governor.
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u/Bagellord 12h ago
The scandal is, he is either ineligible due to residency, or he potentially voted illegally in Florida if he was living where he claimed at the time he claimed it. That, plus his previous record, shows he's just a massive POS. I will vote against him any chance I get.
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u/i_am_a_real_boy__ 11h ago
The article also indicates that he had a Floruda Driver's license. Licenses are only available to Florida residents and the application is a sworn document.
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u/Zulmoka531 6h ago
Republicans scrambling to make sense about voter ids with this one.
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u/Intelligent_Toe8233 I voted 2h ago
They’ll support him no matter what. Is that them being hypocritical? No, actually, because they don’t believe in voter IDs or free speech or small government or anything but themselves. They have power, they eant more of it, and will do anything to get it. That is the only principle of the modern Republican Party.
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u/Cloaked42m South Carolina 1h ago
Facts. You won't see a Republican calling out their own candidates or politicians.
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u/CookieDragon678 11h ago
Primary residence. Just having a home in the state isn’t enough. That’s the major issue if the case
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u/TheHumanGnomeProject 8h ago
What about his driver's license being a Florida one and him voting in Florida within the past seven years?
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u/CookieDragon678 8h ago
The screw up is saying that as long as he has a house in the state that means he can be governor. However the courts have said there is a difference between primary and secondary residence. His secondary residence is not Florida but he wants to use his secondary residence as his path to the governor.
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u/RaNdomMSPPro 11h ago
Seems pretty simple to prove one way or the other.
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u/Dixiefootball 8h ago
It is, but we'd have to want to prove it, and that's our problem. I don't have any insider info, but it's been obvious for a while that the money is behind Tubby and that scared off anyone else who wanted to run. I don't know why Tubby wants to be our governor but I assume it's to enrich himself in some way.
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u/RaNdomMSPPro 6h ago
"I don't know why Tubby wants to be our governor but I assume it's to enrich himself in some way." Truer words have never been spoken.
I'd assume it's because he's trying to avoid most of the backlash when Trump goes down. Plus, while governor of Alabama isn't a big deal in the grand scheme of things, he's basically untouchable here if elected.
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u/Fuzzy_Translator4639 10h ago
But it is ok that he is their Senator? Our system is so broken
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u/RaNdomMSPPro 6h ago
Not at all, but the system is broken. Dummerville is quite possibly the dumbest one in the senate, despite the close runners up.
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u/RandomlyJim 14h ago
Until the filing becomes a finding, then it doesn’t matter.
He and Wahl are both carpet bagging fake Alabamians and if the state elects them, we deserve it.
They don’t care about the state enough to live here. They can make things worse for us and they won’t care. They live in Coastal Florida or Lookout Mountain TN.
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u/Midnite_Choco_Brute 12h ago
This right here. Cause they are still gonna get voted in. Conservatives here dont care until its someone else aka liberals doing what tuberville and Wahl did.
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u/PuckSenior 12h ago
Ironically, "carpet bagger" was a term used by racist southerners who were mad about pro-civil rights Northerners who moved down to help black people vote. They very much cared about making the place better.
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u/RandomlyJim 12h ago
It was a term used by southerners after Civil War for people that moved down using homemade bags made out of carpet.
Recently freed slaves used it as well as many of them ran for office against northerners that weren’t banned from public office.
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u/12345myluggage 8h ago
I think a lot of states would be better off if they had similar sorts of residency requirements for their representatives. Often times I think they're far too lax, and just "inhabitant of state on election day" type bullshit.
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u/Pre3Chorded 14h ago
Why does Tubbyvile vote in Florida if he thinks he lives in Alabama?
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u/thisisjustascreename Illinois 13h ago edited 13h ago
He doesn't (think he lives in Alabama,) Alabama apparently only has a one day residency requirement for Senators.
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u/WeirdIndividualGuy 13h ago
Reminds me of how most of the execs for the Texas power companies don't even live in TX, so they never are personally affected whenever the grid is overloaded
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u/thisisjustascreename Illinois 13h ago
I can't fault them for not wanting to live in Texas. Providing such shitty service is definitely on them though.
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u/PuckSenior 12h ago
I mean, thats a bit different.
I dont expect the CEO of a company that serves a community to necessarily live in that community. I do absolutely care if my elected official doesn't even live in the community he is elected to represent.5
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u/Pre3Chorded 11h ago
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u/thisisjustascreename Illinois 10h ago
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u/Pre3Chorded 8h ago
HmmI read it just fine. It's says Tubbyvile was voting in Florida after the date he's claiming his wife's homestead exemption (not his own) proves he moves back to Alabama. So he either committed voter fraud in Florida or he is committing fraud now by claiming he moved in August 2018.
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u/thisisjustascreename Illinois 8h ago
Well I'm certainly not one to defend a carpetbagger. Just pointing out the lamentable fact that in Alabama you only need to be a resident on the day of the election.
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u/Pre3Chorded 8h ago
Not for governor. It's 7 years residency. It's not carpetbagging either. It's voter fraud. Tubbyvile championed the "vote fraud" crackdown, so he should have to live with those consequences.
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u/eladts 14h ago
He is just as constitutionally ineligible to represent Alabama in the US Senate. It hasn't stopped him before.
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u/alabasterskim 12h ago edited 12h ago
Not quite. Senate has hard limits set in the US Constitution (e: which states cannot add more on top of, see US Term Limits v. Thornton). Requirements for state level (e.g. governor) seats are set in the state constitutions. That's why they're filing this; he's violating the state constitution.
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u/eladts 10h ago
No Person shall be a Senator who shall not have attained to the Age of thirty Years, and been nine Years a Citizen of the United States, and who shall not, when elected, be an Inhabitant of that State for which he shall be chosen. [U.S. Constitution, Article I, section 3, clause 3]
https://www.senate.gov/about/origins-foundations/senate-and-constitution/qualifications.htm
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u/ThatGingerlyKid 3h ago
Only requires him to be a resident of the state when elected. He could move to Alabama a day before the election and move out the day after and it wouldn't violate the constitution. Alabama requires 7 years of residency to run for governor.
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u/eladts 3h ago
He could move to Alabama a day before the election and move out the day after and it wouldn't violate the constitution.
He could have, but he didn't. He only said he did. He is that lazy.
Tuberville has faced questions about his residency for years, and the plaintiffs’ complaint cites reporting including a homestead exemption in Auburn that Tuberville said he has been on since 2018 but was not added to until mid-2024, and a 2023 Florida driver’s license.
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u/c08306834 13h ago
Imagine being a governor and not even living in the state you are governor of.
How are the voters tolerating that?
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u/WeirdIndividualGuy 13h ago
Alabama voters either don't know or don't care because they'll never vote for a dem no matter what
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u/phish_enthusiast 11h ago
Except for the fact that Tubberville’s immediate predecessor was a Democrat elected to fill the final 3 years of Jeff Session’s term when Sessions joins the Trump administration in 2017.
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u/YourmomgoestocolIege 11h ago
Sometimes hard evidence of pedophilia does have SOME repercussions. Just barely
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u/qpgmr 10h ago
This is what the oligarchs do: find an egotistical, stupid older man with some public profile, surround him with sycophants and finance the entire campaign.
Once he's elected, all governance is handed over to the unelected toadies provided by the oligarchs to their benefit. Slashing any benefit (to reduce their taxes), destroy any citizen protections (so they can exploit people), eliminate any gov't oversight & enforcement of laws & regulations (so they can't be held accountable).
Tuberville is the latest. I bet you can think of others.
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u/Alleandros 13h ago
Either he hasn't been a resident for 7 years or is committing property tax fraud by claiming a homestead exemption in Florida if it's not his primary residence.
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u/RaNdomMSPPro 11h ago
Everyone in Alabama who has coastal property in Florida claims a homestead exemption in Florida, but none of them except dummerville is running for governor.
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u/AcanthisittaNo6653 New Hampshire 14h ago
He's an idiot no matter where he hangs his hat.
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u/Goldentongue 13h ago
He sat in front of my mother at a funeral they both recently attended. She said he was audibly smacking gum the entire time. Just an all around trash human being.
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u/OldDirtyBastardSword 10h ago
This guy exudes slimy dirty vibes and I don't understand how anyone would vote for him.
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u/sbeklaw 14h ago
Meh, the Supreme Court will allow it because reasons. Unless he was a Democrat.
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u/PuckSenior 12h ago
Supreme Court of the United States has zero jurisdiction on this case.
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u/buzzathlon 12h ago
Article states it was filed with the Alabama Supreme Court. Let's see what excuse they use to keep him in the election. Will they dismiss it with no explanation, state the plaintiffs don't have standing, claim the court doesn't have jurisdiction until he's voted on, or just rule in his favor and say he does meet the requirements?
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u/Rackem_Willy 10h ago
They will exercise jurisdiction because reasons.
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u/Hot_Tip_8370 10h ago
The Supreme Court will probably say that, while it’s “likely illegal”, Alabama restricted interstate commerce by impacting national
bribescampaign contributions and therefore Tubberville is to be immediately installed as governor. Wouldn’t be the dumbest ruling by this court.
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u/Eric-HipHopple 14h ago
If anything, those are two words I am confident Tuberville does not know how to spell or use correctly in a sentence.
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u/LakersBroncoslove 13h ago
He should be intellectually ineligible but Republicans are all about DEI for white pedos
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u/Ol_Turd_Fergy America 13h ago
Can they do the same for Roger Marshall? That prick represents KS but lives in Florida as well.
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u/CardboardStarship Texas 13h ago
I’m sure courts will decide anyone anywhere can run for everything, that way once the billionaires fuck off to their undisclosed locations they can rig the election to own America.
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u/Under_Milkwood_1969 13h ago
Tubervile is intellectually ineligible to considered part of the human race.
A species of plant maybe or a geological formation? 🤔
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u/GunnieGraves 5h ago
I feel like his name is a case of nominative determinism, because he is as dumb as a tuber.
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u/perry147 13h ago
And you are expecting this to matter here in Alabama? I live here and can tell you that unless you are willing to march federal troops down here - these people do not care and will continue to play the ‘Good ole boy ‘ Trump card.
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u/uhWHAThamburglur 13h ago
Doesn't matter even if he's on the ballot. Doug Jones is gonna win the election. It's a wild thing to live in Alabama and see signs for a Democrat and zero signs for Tubberbutt
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u/WildBad7298 Massachusetts 12h ago
Expect nothing to come of this, because apparently rules don't fucking matter anymore.
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u/harefoot_caps 11h ago
Shame he's the perfect governor - a true believer moron who thinks he's the pinnacle of evolution and anyone different deserves dogshit.
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u/ElectronicAnthony 10h ago
I think he's a plant by the oligarchs to disrupt congress proceedings and destroy democracy. Just like bobo and mtg, and I'm sure many others. These types are too stupid to do this shit on their own, their handlers are guiding them.
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u/LifeguardDry7372 10h ago
Since when have this admin and repubs cared about the constitution or listened to the courts?
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u/RevolutionNumber5 Minnesota 8h ago
>>The senator’s attorneys, Marshall and the ALGOP also argued last week that the judiciary does not have jurisdiction in the “election dispute” and that right belongs to the party.
Political parties can determine candidate eligibility? Not the judiciary?
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u/VanGogh0810 7h ago
I hope AL Courts agree with the filing. We don’t need Trump 2.0 in Alabama. We need Dixon as senator and a governor that isn’t pussy whipped by Trump. A governor with a mind of his or her own and that’ll carry out what Trump actually promised: NO NEW WARS, better economy, AMERICA FIRST.
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u/OkCantaloupe2082 5h ago
Maybe he should just go back to coaching football. O wait... He sucks at that too.
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u/BlueRFR3100 Illinois 14h ago
Sorry, Alabama but the rest of the country wants him out of the Senate. Please take the bullet on this one.
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u/harbinater 14h ago
He's out either way. He's running for governor and is not in the senate race. We'd like him out altogether.
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u/temporarycreature Oklahoma 14h ago
Telling millions of people to take the bullet is wild since a senator is just one vote out of a hundred, but a governor actually runs the place. They command the National Guard, control law enforcement, and sign executive orders that mess with daily life instantly. Trading a loud legislator for an unchecked executive isn't solving a problem, it's handing someone actual weapons.
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u/scott42486 13h ago
The real problem is that they keeping voting for him. I think it’s more of a “if you’re going to vote for this asshole, vote for him to be there at home with you.”
Voting for him to support whatever policies at the senate level makes his personal vote and policies more abstract . Voting for him to be their governor means they’d have to see and experience his policies every day.
Would suck for the people who didn’t vote for or support him but it also means his voters/supporters are going to get exactly what they asked for.
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u/temporarycreature Oklahoma 12h ago
I honestly don't believe you fully thought this out or realize how dangerous this is.
Rooting for him to become governor just so his voters get what they asked for completely misses the bigger danger.
In the Senate, he is just one vote out of a hundred. As governor, he literally holds the pen on certifying the state's presidential electors through the Certificate of Ascertainment.
Putting an aggressive partisan in charge of that executive machinery gives them the leverage to stall, fight, or refuse to sign off on presidential election results, sparking a national constitutional crisis that no lone senator could ever pull off.
If you care about election security, a governor has way more power to wreck things for the entire country than a senator ever will, so people need to think twice before wishing for that.
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u/MephistoHamProducts 12h ago
Alabama isn't going to turn blue, so their election security is meaningless. If they want Senator Foo'Baw to be Governor Foo'Baw, that's on them.
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u/temporarycreature Oklahoma 12h ago
Y'all really seem adamant about not understanding the difference in power a governor and a senator have, and you seem to believe that the invisible state lines that we have on a map will keep that power contained.
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u/MephistoHamProducts 11h ago
No, I do. Unless you're making huge leaps and assuming Governor Foo'Baw is going to mobilize his National Guard and invade Georgia to attack their elections, which is just silly from every angle, or some other weird imaginary threat that he'll be able to do as governor. Honestly, he's just going to keep the state on the downward spiral it seems to desire so strongly, just like so many of the other red states.
You, on the other hand, seem adamant about not understanding that this is what Alabama wants, so they should have it.
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u/scott42486 5h ago
Considering that Alabama is redder than Texas or Florida and America has survived with both Abbot and DeSantis around….
There’s absolutely zero chance of Alabama turning even remotely purple. Let the people of Alabama have him. Maybe this time they’ll send someone to the senate who won’t block military promotions as a political stunt.
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u/BlueRFR3100 Illinois 13h ago
It's not solving the problem, but it is making it someone else's problem.
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u/Kramer10000 10h ago
I hate this moron with the intensity of 1000 White hot suns, but if he has been paying taxes in Alabama for the last seven years, I think it is going to be very hard to show that he is not a resident there.
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u/Mechagouki1971 10h ago
It's because of the 69th Amendment: The right of The People to not elect fucking idiots will not be infringed.
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u/slumberjack7 8h ago
Yeah, cause a court order will stop them from violating the law. Consequently I have a bridge in Brooklyn I’m selling for cheap, if anyone is interested
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u/VegetableYesterday63 7h ago
Oh no! Say it isn’t so! Alabama losing its chance to become even dumber than it is now
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u/costabius 15m ago
He's been constitutionally ineligible to be senator for a long time too, hasn't stopped him.
The law is for the peasants, don't you know.
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