Former congressional candidate Casey Wardynski believes President Joe Biden’s decision to block the Space Command Headquarters from relocating to Redstone Arsenal is just the beginning of bad news for Alabama’s defense industry.
This week, Biden decided to keep the Space Command HQ in Colorado despite analyses and studies indicating Huntsville as the No. 1 choice across the board.
Wardynski, who served as the assistant secretary of the Army for Manpower and Reserve Affairs under President Trump, discussed the situation recently on WVNN’s “The Yaffee Program.”
“This thing belongs in Huntsville,” Wardynski said. “It is politics that it’s going to stay in Colorado, but it’s predictable. Huntsville and its delegation need to get their stuff together because there’s more of this coming our way.”
Wardynski said the Biden administration is looking to hurt Republican states including Alabama.
“Their goal is to punish the red states,” he said. “Huntsville is in a red state. And the arsenal is our bread and butter no matter what anybody says around here … and our bread and butter is being threatened now because the arsenal is frankly under attack.”
He also pointed the blame at the generals who helped Biden made the decision.
“Well, the argument is they fell back on these generals,” he said. “As they’ve done, whenever they are convenient to do, and the generals, the three of them, said ‘hey best military advice is leave it in Colorado for readiness. It’s already here.’
“But you’ve got these obsequious generals who are willing to go along with the Biden administration and it will stay in Colorado which is exactly where the Air Force wants it.”
Wardynski said this is just another example of Biden’s outrageous actions as commander in chief.
“We have a lawless government,” he said. “They violate rules left, right, and center. To think they wouldn’t do it over Space Command is just foolishness. And as I said there’s more coming our way.”
He also thinks the president is putting his personal politics over the national security of the country.
“This Colorado decision is not good for the United States,” he said. “It’s not good for defense, and of course it’s not good for anybody under that umbrella, which includes us here in Huntsville.”
Yaffee is a contributing writer to Yellowhammer News and hosts “The Yaffee Program” weekdays 9-11 a.m. on WVNN. You can follow him on Twitter @Yaffee
