Brooks campaign co-chair Mcdonald to ALFA: ‘Squabble’ with Mo Brooks ‘a little childish’ — ‘Quit having your ego-driven food fight’

Recently, ALFA’s FarmPAC endorsed U.S. Senate hopeful Katie Britt for Alabama’s U.S. Senate seat up in 2022, and on Monday, the Britt campaign released radio and digital advertisements touting the endorsement.

The endorsement of Britt continues a long streak of ALFA endorsements for opponents of U.S. Rep. Mo Brooks (R-Huntsville), who is one of Britt’s opponents in next May’s GOP primary.

During an appearance on Huntsville radio NewsTalk 770AM/92.5FM’s “The Dale Jackson Show,” Brooks campaign co-chair Stan Mcdonald called on the ALFA membership to reevaluate Brooks and referred to the perceived differences the organization has with Brooks as “childish.”

“[I]’m going to be a little hard on them on this,” he said. “To answer your question — I do not think it is a gamechanger right now. And I think they’re in a squabble with Mo Brooks right now that is a little childish on their part. And I think they’re making wrong moves. And I think as such when you’ve got a little childishness and trying to have a food fight with the soon-to-be U.S. Senator, you do things that are not in your best interest. At some point — that organization does a great job of being run at the grassroots level — I think at some points at the grassroots level people who are listening to me right now need to explain to Montgomery: Quit having your ego-driven food fight.”

Mcdonald urged ALFA members to consider Brooks’ voting record and argued it was “stellar” when it came to ALFA’s core issues.

“I’d like to speak directly to their rank-and-file members right now, and they know who they are,” Mcdonald said. “I don’t know the complete answer to this. I think I do. But I think the rank-and-file members ought to ask their leadership, ‘What is his voting record with ALFA, Farmers Federation?’ And I think they’re going to find it’s stellar, extremely stellar. I think if you were to ask to really give an account for why they’re not for Mo Brooks, it’s the little ol’ non-essential ‘did you do this for me, did you do that for me?’ Things that aren’t really for the industry. I think it is little ol’ personal food fights where Mo Brooks will sometimes ask people to kind of give account for what they’re asking for.”

@Jeff_Poor is a graduate of Auburn University and the University of South Alabama, the editor of Breitbart TV, a columnist for Mobile’s Lagniappe Weekly, and host of Mobile’s “The Jeff Poor Show” from 9 a.m.-12 p.m. on FM Talk 106.5.