Just in:
@TTuberville
announces the hires of Legislative Director Bradley Hayes, Communications Director Ryann DuRant, Administrative Director Jessica Newman, Chief Counsel and Policy Advisor Mary Blanche Hankey, and Senior Policy Advisor Mike Albares.
#alpolitics
.
@TTuberville
sworn in as Alabama’s junior U.S. senator — ‘I’m going to wake up every day with one mission – to speak for the people of Alabama’
#alpolitics
🚨DNI: Certain voter registration information obtained by Iran and Russia.
Says Iran has already sent spoof emails to voters in an attempt to damage
@realDonaldTrump
’s reelection.
Event doesn’t start until 7:00, but we already have a line snaking through the
@booksamillion
store at Brookwood Village to see
@DonaldJTrumpJr
. A lot of visible
@realDonaldTrump
attire — including a notable % of younger people.
Federal campaign finance reports are in for Q2 — here are the #’s for
#alsen
:
@ALGOP
nominee
@KatieBrittforAL
:
Raised: $1,328,986
Cash on hand: $1,196,225
Democratic nominee Will Boyd:
Raised: $16,824
Cash on hand: $921
#alpolitics
Only one word changed between these
@thehill
captions... but a world of difference.
How is the first tweet still up? (And with no apology/explicit correction)
Jones now: Tara Reade "does not have the indicia of credibility that I would be looking to at all"
Jones in 2018: “I am concerned about the message our vote will be sending to our sons & daughters, as well as victims of sexual assault. I will be voting no”
🚨JUST IN: U.S. Census Bureau announces Alabama will NOT lose a congressional seat following the 2020 Census.
Note: Redistricting data will be released as late as September 30.
Biden’s video message, presumably recorded from his Delaware home, featured a rallying call for Democrats to “keep... the United States Senate.”
Of course, Democrats do not currently have control of the Senate.
.
@TTuberville
: “[I]f we were to happen to lose this Senate, we have lost our country as we know it. It’s over. … If we lose the Senate, it’s going to be a different world.”
🚨
@SenShelby
has witnessed 11 justices confirmed to the Supreme Court during his time in the U.S. Senate.
Today, Shelby said Judge Amy Coney Barrett -- who will be the 12th -- stands above the rest when it comes to qualifications.
Happening now: Air Force One just touched down in Dallas, and
@TTuberville
was seen departing the plane right next to
@realDonaldTrump
... Attorney General William Barr was a few steps behind them.
#alsen
#alpolitics
.
@GovernorKayIvey
today met with U.S. Senator-elect
@TTuberville
at the Alabama State Capitol.
Ivey spox: “The governor mentioned that his win was key, not only when it comes to fighting for Alabama values, but also critical to keeping Republican control of the U.S. Senate.”
In an email minutes ago,
@DougJones
claimed there are “caravans of ‘Proud Boys’ and other white supremacists coming in to ‘defend’ property” across the country.
Veracity of that aside, no mention/condemnation, of course, of the people damaging property/engaging in riots etc.
🚨Full report coming soon on
@yhn
:
@UofAlabama
today to release up-to-date data from their student testing, with the positivity rate under 1%.
(UA System's first preliminary numbers showed 0.83% positivity system-wide across all three campuses)
.
@KatieBrittforAL
“has a 33% net approval rating – one of the highest in the country”
Among Republicans, 74% approve, 6% disapprove.
Independents— 40-23
Overall — 54-21
#alpolitics
It appears that an attempt is underway to drum up an October surprise in Alabama’s U.S. Senate race.
However, former Auburn players are already rushing to
@TTuberville
's defense.
#alsen
#alpolitics
.
@HolmesJosh
on Episode 4 of
@RuthlessPodcast
w/
@ComfortablySmug
:
"[Doug Jones] is indistinguishable from Chuck Schumer. There is literally zero difference between leadership of the Democratic Party and Doug Jones. So, I think he's on his way out. He was renting a seat..."
Alabama New South Coalition offering pastors money ‘per person’ they get to vote early.
The respective campaigns of Doug Jones and Joe Biden have given ALNSC and its political arm at least $296,200 combined, starting with Jones’ 2017 victory.
🚨Huge announcement today that the
@UASystem
intends on returning to pre-COVID normal operations for the fall 2021 semester.
This continues the UA System’s national leadership on following the science and spearheading a safe return to the classroom.
This is not true.
1). Without the order, Alabamians would be getting $0 supplementally; with it, they'll be getting at least $300 more than they otherwise would've.
2). States can use what they already pay in unemployment benefits toward their $100 "match," hence no new burden.
This executive order just doesn't cut it, folks. Not only does it cut benefits for struggling Alabamians by $200 a week or more, states now have to foot part of the bill even though their budgets are already under water.
INBOX:
@TTuberville
announces the hires of senior advisor and state coordinator Jordan Doufexis; scheduler Emily McBride; staff assistant Hannah Eddins; and special assistant Jake Dumas.
#alpolitics
“You are in danger of being held hostage,”
@USRepGaryPalmer
warned. “The whole world would suffer if Biden gets elected president. Because the Chinese have the goods on him.”
JUST IN: AL-05 Advisory Committee formed by
@RepMoBrooks
calls on Governor Kay Ivey to immediately repeal and rescind all State Health Orders that have “played a major role in strangling Alabama’s economy,” including stay-at-home order.
🚨🚨🚨Metric Media has launched 20 sites pretending to be Alabama news organizations.
One of the three Metric Media directors once worked for Beijing TV, now Beijing Media Network -- which is owned by the Chinese Communist Party-run government.
No questions were taken at McConnell’s very brief photo-op w/ incoming GOP senators: Cynthia Lummis (WY), Rep. Roger Marshall (KS), Bill Hagerty (TN), Tommy Tuberville (AL)
.
@MSNBC
contributor
@JoyceWhiteVance
should apologize for this. Credentialed members of the media have been allowed to all meetings of the Alabama legislature this session. And that isn’t changing. Meetings are also live streamed. “w/out scrutiny from the media” is false info.
Alabama's legislature goes back into session May 4, putting legislators over 65 & w/preexisting conditions into crowded conditions that can't accommodate social distancing in order to pass a budget w/out scrutiny from the media. Thanks to Dem leader
@RepEngland70
for informing us
New from me:
@AuburnU
officials "considering options available to the university" after Yellowhammer News discovered an incendiary tweet about police by an incoming professor -- "inexcusable and completely counter to Auburn values."
Full story:
JUST IN:
@Boeing
donates $500,000 to the "Save Space Camp" fundraising campaign for
@RocketCenterUSA
.
This means more than $1.1 million has now been raised in three days. Less than $400,000 to the goal.
A
@yhn
reader, attempting to comment on one of our
@Facebook
posts yesterday, was told they violated “community standards on harassment and bullying.”
The comment?
“It’s not what Alabama needs
Trump 2020”
Screenshots/article they were commenting on:
More than one issue here: Not only was someone registered in Alabama since 2012 (who has voted in the state since then) mailed an unsolicited New Jersey ballot (mailed to Alabama), but the USPS put the ballot in the wrong UPS box — delivering it to a different person.
Just saw a
@mpdmontgomery
officer stop to change this family’s tire. Mom was stuck in traffic with a car full of kids.
Law enforcement officers go above and beyond every day across Alabama, 99% of the time unnoticed.
@yhn
I have obtained
@TTuberville
internal polling memo that strongly rebuts the below internal from Jones camp.
(Note: Moore Information'd polling was very accurate for Tuberville in primary & runoff. This latest tracks w/ all independent polling in the general.)
#ALSen
#alpolitics
.
@UASystem
Chancellor St. John discussed safely returning to on-campus, in-person instruction. He also spoke about the potential of having
@AlabamaFTBL
this season.
READ:
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the 11th Circuit has upheld Alabama’s 2011 photo voter ID law.
Judge Branch for the court: “no reasonable factfinder could find, based on the evidence presented, that Alabama’s voter ID law is discriminatory.”
Full story to come on
@yhn
#alpolitics
“I’ll do everything I can,” Jones pledged.
But... "Under the rules of the United States Senate, Mitch McConnell can just do about any damn thing he wants to,” he added.
#alsen
#alpolitics
JUST IN:
@JessicaTaylorAL
announces "raising over $200,000 in the fourth quarter of 2019 after announcing her candidacy in late October. Not a single dollar of the funds raised were from loans by the candidate."
Says over 1,400 donors. Working on more details.
#AL02
#alpolitics
Great news: State Sen. Randy Price’s condition has improved at East Alabama Medical Center and he is off the ventilator. Still in ICU, but things looking up.
🚨Sen. Doug Jones (D-AL) just joined his caucus members in voting against invoking cloture on targeted $500B COVID-19 relief measure. With Dems opposing, failed to get 60 votes needed to break filibuster.
🚨BREAKING: Alabama Senate has passed SB 319, which would legalize a lottery, casino gaming at select locations and sports betting in the state. Vote was 23-9.
Now heads to the House.
🚨News: State Rep. Will Dismukes has resigned from Pleasant Hill Baptist Church in Prattville, where he was an Alabama Baptist bivocational pastor. Comes in wake of Nathan Bedford Forrest celebration and statements.
#alpolitics