WHY I’M RUNNING
For too long, Alabama had suffered from an array of office holders who became embarrassments to our state and cast a shadow on the good people of Alabama.
We can do better.
I’m running to give the people of Alabama something too many politicians in Montgomery don’t want you to have: a choice.
Because the truth is this:
When politicians stay in power by keeping you out of the process…
When they stack the deck…
When they cling to one-party rule…
They’re not serving Alabama — they’re serving themselves.
Two-thirds of Alabamians believe their state government doesn’t really care what they think. And I have to ask you — is anyone here surprised?
If Montgomery truly cared what the people thought, we would already have:
A state lottery, instead of watching millions bleed across our borders to Florida and Georgia.
Early voting, like 47 other states that trust their citizens.
No more straight-ticket ballot, a system designed to keep the powerful in power, even as they fail us year after year.
Taken every measure possible to protect families, so Alabama wouldn’t earn an “F” on maternal health from the March of Dimes — think of that, this self-proclaimed “pro-life” state earning an “F” in caring for mothers.
Protected IVF and contraception. It started with abortion, but make no mistake — those folks never planned on stopping there.
Expanded Medicaid, so our neighbors wouldn’t be living with the highest rates of diabetes and heart disease in the nation, and our rural hospitals wouldn’t be shutting their doors.
We must give the people of Alabama a choice and a vision.
Our values — Alabama values — are more important than any political party, any personality, any pre-packaged ideology:
We believe in hard work.
We believe in fairness.
We believe in looking out for your neighbor, even when you don’t agree on everything.
We believe in telling the truth — even when we don’t want to hear it.
And above all, we believe that every person deserves dignity, opportunity, and a voice.
Those aren’t Democratic or Republican values.
They’re Alabama values.
And they’re worth fighting for.
Alabama’s young people don’t want a handout — they want a fair shot.
When nearly one out of five young Alabamians can’t find a job that pays the bills or forces them to leave the communities they love — that’s not a game.
That’s our future on the line.
When you lose access to health care and a child or parent falls ill — it’s not a game.
When energy bills skyrocket, and families have to choose between keeping the lights on or putting food on the table — it’s not a game.
When AI begins shutting down plants and factories while data centers jack up our electricity bills, while our elected leaders are too busy courting billionaire tech bros to protect Alabama jobs and make life affordable — it’s not a game.
And when one party controls state government, smothering debate, smothering innovation, smothering hope — it is absolutely not a game.
This is about our families. Our communities and our state.
Let’s make Alabama the state we all know it can be.
For too long, we have been a house divided in many ways, and politicians have played on that and divided us further.
For too long, political leaders have taken the model of friendly rivalries in sports and used it to bitterly divide us in some sort of competition against each other.
Us vs them.
Good vs evil.
Where the whole goal is to have winners and losers.
But this is not a game where your Governor or other public official should be picking winners and losers.
I see Alabama as that house with a crowded table,
where there is always one more chair, so everyone has a seat at that table,
where there is always room by the fire, always a place for everyone.
Where the door is open, and yes — we’re all a little different — but nobody gets turned away.
Where we belong to one another, flaws and all.