It has been a little more than two months since the end of the 2021 legislative regular session, and despite such a short period of time, three bills for the 2022 regular session have already been prefiled to deal with so-called Critical Race Theory in public education and within state government.
State Reps. Chris Pringle (R-Mobile), Ed Oliver (R-Dadeville) and Danny Crawford (R-Athens) all have such bills ready to go for next year. State Rep. Mary Moore (D-Birmingham) argued those efforts were “totally ignorant” during an interview that aired on Friday’s “Capitol Journal” on Alabama Public Television.
Moore told host Don Dailey those bills were a “waste” of time, and the state had more urgent needs to deal with.
“Well, this is it — the people who are presenting those bills are just totally ignorant,” she said. “They’re ignorant. It’s just like some of the voting rights bills that we introduced. Well, in Alabama, as long as I’ve worked elections, I’ve never been able to go into a polling place and bring a ballot out to a car for a person to cast their ballot. So, why did we pass a bill for something we’ve never done in the first place? I’ve never seen a situation like they had in Texas, where you could drive by and vote. They have a machine out there for you to vote. We’ve never had that. Why are we wasting our time on that when we still got to think about hunger? We’ve got to think about unemployment. We’ve got to think about what makes our education system better. What makes Alabama? What makes it better? Poverty areas have been in this state for since the state has been a state. How do we clear it up and make those people’s quantity and quality of life better?”
“So, I think that’s pure ignorance,” Moore added. “It’s a stall on what you need to be dealing with. Let’s deal with the things the Alabama Constitution says we ought to come here and deal with.”
@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.
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