7. Damn, Democrats got it good
- L.A. City Council President Nury Martinez, who at one time said the solution to racism was defunding the police, was caught on a secret recording referring to a white councilman’s adopted black son as a white-acting monkey who needs a “beatdown.” She has resigned from her leadership post but is keeping her job.
- Real racism gets far less coverage when a Democrat does it because it doesn’t feed an election narrative that benefits swing-state Democrats. So, it should be no surprise that few are discussing a prominent Democrat politician calling a black child a monkey.
6. Incentives work but the Legislature must do more
- State Senate Pro-Tem Greg Reed (R-Jasper ) believes Alabama’s business incentives have paid off greatly for the state of Alabama. Reed said, “if you look at gross revenues Jobs Act incentives and total revenues for the state, we’ve had about 162% growth in those areas as a result of those incentive packages”
- But, the question about whether the Legislature needs to do more is an obvious yes and transparency needs to be tantamount, “everybody understands that we are incentivizing the right things to keep it going, to keep the growth going. I also think that we need to be looking at a shorter time frame as we did this past renewal … we need to be agile.”
5. Foreign investment in U.S. farmland a national security risk-
- Much has been made about farmland in the U.S. being sold to countries such as China because of the impact it could have on America in times of severe need, depression, war or natural disaster. U.S. Rep. Jerry Carl (R-Mobile) is highlighting these problems.
- In an opinion posted at Yellowhammer News, Carl warns these countries maintaining “massive control over U.S. food production, pricing, and supply chains” need to be looked over, especially since Alabama has the second-most foreign-owned land in the country and it raises fear of more reliance on a foreign power.
4. Some demand race-based redistricting
- It is becoming more and more obvious that race-neutral policies are not desired by a large portion of the American political elite, racial-gerrymandering is already illegal but some entities insist it is necessary. The ACLU wants the Supreme Court to mandate it, forcing Alabama to use racial strategies to draw Black Democrat districts.
- Tish Gotell Faulk, the Legal Director of ACLU Alabama, appeared on Alabama Public Television’s “Capitol Journal” to make the case that actual race-based decision-making is good and just. Faulk strangely argues that because no statewide Black candidates ever won office, we need racial gerrymandering. She even argues it’s not just because of the fact that this is a conservative state and white Democrats can’t win either, saying, “considering how conservative the black community is in Alabama, it’s not just about conservatism, either.” That seems like a flawed take.
3. Non-voters getting voter registration notices, oops
- The Democrat Secretary of State in Colorado “mistakenly” sent 30,000 notices to non-citizens telling them to register to vote before a contentious midterm election takes place.
- No one buys this was an accident, only that Secretary of State Jena Griswold got caught. In fact, Colorado’s Republican Party Chair Kristi Burton Brown said, “Jena Griswold continues to make easily avoidable errors just before ballots go out” by mail on Oct. 17. The errors, like media errors and Justice Department overreach, seem to only go one way.
2. GOP chairman defends Tuberville from racial attacks
- The attacks on U.S. Sen. Tommy Tuberville (R-Auburn) as a racist come as Democrats seek new attack lines against Republicans as their midterm fates dim, few Republicans have defended him but the media and their Democrats insist all Republicans share the made-up views they have placed on Tuberville.
- One person defending Tuberville is ALGOP Chairman John Wahl, who said, “Coach Tuberville is well known for his work with people of all backgrounds, both on the field and off,” Wahl said. “His record and respect of others speaks volumes about his integrity and character.” Tuberville’s long history in the public eye shows no record of racial animus but the media smelled blood and attacked.
1. NAACP, Democrats and the media pile on Tuberville
- The blood was in the water all over the past few days with the media, their Democrats and Democrats’ attack dogs were out in force declaring U.S. Sen. Tommy Tuberville a racist. The man he drubbed in 2020, former U.S. Sen. Doug Jones (D-Mountain Brook), took to Twitter alone from his house and said, “This racist rant at a MAGA rally just can’t go uncalled out. Somebody has just got to call bullshit on his bullshit. I’m trying to think: Is this just a racist rant or is it ignorance? And I decided, you know, it’s probably both.”
- Karlos Dansby, an All-America linebacker for Tuberville at Auburn, told aldotcom Roy Johnson, “What [Tuberville] said was unnecessary, dead wrong, ugly,” This accusation has never been made about Tuberville before but no benefit of the doubt can be given here, there are points to be scored. More confusingly, Tuberville has been working to build bridges with Birmingham Mayor Randal Woodfin, which Dansby criticized as well: “You can’t go take a picture with some Black guys and then have that kind of conversation. You can’t do that; you’re a hypocrite.” Calling him a hypocrite is one option; the other could be understanding that there was no racism here, but who would write about that? Because, if Tommy Tuberville is such an unrepentant racist, where are all the people calling him racist his whole life BEFORE he became a Republican politician?
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