Tuberville, who’s singlehandedly blocked hundreds of military promotions in protest over the Pentagon’s abortion policies, said he’s not going to change his mind and doesn’t care that people aren’t being promoted.
After the US Supreme Court reversed decades of precedent in overturning its decision in the Roe v. Wade abortion access case in 2022, the Pentagon announced its plan to reimburse service members who need to travel out-of-state to receive abortion services.
Tuberville, a Republican senator out of Alabama, took exception to the decision and said he’d use his power to stymie any military nominations and promotions he could. Since February, he’s blocked more than 300 promotions.
In Alabama? We have as much chance as someone in the leftmost portion of Manchin’s penumbra being elected in WV.
Alabamaian here. We’re mostly all pissed at this clown. Alabama was a front runner to get the space Force command from Colorado. Recently the Biden administration elected to keep it in Colorado. The local scuttlebutt was this move was at least partially retaliation for Tuberville’s nonsense.This angered a lot of big money interests in Alabama, especially in Huntsville, which is a city built off the back of the military industrial complex.
Tuberville fucked around and will likely find out on this one. My guess is big money interests will at least attempt to primary him with a more … coachable… republican candidate.
Yes, most likely. Hopefully all this hating on the armed forces comes back to bite them.
Lol. Alabama is the last place where anyone not an R has even a snowballs chance in hell. The democratic party basically doesn’t even bother to try in AL since they know their money and effort is better spent elsewhere.
The one place that might be slightly more Republican is Mississippi, but that’s about it