Inside Sen. Tommy Tuberville's "Back to Basics" Playbook for Alabama

U.S. Sen. Tommy Tuberville sits down with Bryan Dawson to walk through "Back to Basics: The Golden Age Playbook," the policy document his campaign released ahead of the November election.

Tuberville says the playbook took a year and a half and drew on roughly 100 people from outside state government, chosen deliberately because they were experts in their fields rather than politicians. He describes his approach to the job the same way: hire good people, sell them the plan, and turn them loose.

The conversation runs through the substance. Workforce development and a push to start trade instruction as early as ninth grade, built around Alabama's community college system. Why manufacturing has to reach rural counties if rural hospitals are going to survive, and the three things a site needs: water, power, and workforce. The prison construction overrun, the federal lawsuit, and what he says went wrong. A proposed Secretary of Energy position overseeing the Public Service Commission, and his position on base rates. The Family Affordability Act, the grocery tax, and the income tax. DEI in schools and universities. And crime in Montgomery, where he says flatly, "Montgomery's dead."

He also talks about what he learned in Washington, his 11-month hold over Pentagon abortion travel policy, and why he describes what he sees coming as communism rather than socialism.

TOPICS TACKLED:

How the playbook was built: 18 months, about 100 contributors, none of them politicians
Workforce development, trade instruction from ninth grade, and the community college system
Why manufacturing in rural counties is tied to keeping rural hospitals open
Water, power and workforce: what it takes to land a plant
The prison construction overrun, the federal lawsuit, and the change orders
A proposed Secretary of Energy over the Public Service Commission, and base rates
The Family Affordability Act: grocery tax, income tax, property tax, power bills
DEI in public schools and universities, and the CHOOSE Act as competitive pressure
"Montgomery's dead": crime, downtown, and Maxwell Air Force Base

BACKGROUND READING:

1819 News on the playbook's release: https://1819news.com/news/item/tuberville-releases-back-to-basics-the-golden-age-playbook-outlining-game-plan-if-elected

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