Tommy Tuberville, the stupidest man in the Senate, decided he wanted to run for Governor of Alabama. Just one little problem. You have to have lived in Alabama for seven years. You can run for Senator if you've lived there one day.
Tuberville has been voting in Florida elections so his residency is in question. A reporter has challenged Tuberville to release his tax returns.
The deed to the Auburn, AL home is in his wife and son's names. In 2017 he told ESPN that "I'm not an everyday resident of Alabama."
He's a millionaire but he flies more to Florida than he does to Alabama on taxpayer money.
He has two houses in Florida, and when he bought the second one in 2023, he put his address of the first on the deed for the second, not the house in Auburn.
Alabama has income taxes. Florida doesn't. Now you know why Trump lives there.
If he doesn't have seven years of Alabama income taxes, he shouldn't be able to run. If he voted in Florida while claiming Alabama, that's serious voter fraud.
Tuberville says the house in Auburn has a homestead exemption applied to it since it was purchased in 2018. Recently, his son's name was taken off records and his name put on.
Tuberville came to Auburn in 1999 to coach football and did that until 2008. He's claiming that time to count for the seven years.
Last year, Tuberville bought two homes, one in Madison and another in Auburn. Both had homestead exemptions, according to state property tax records. If the homestead record is proof of residency, which one is it? A homestead applies only to the primary residence. He's got three homestead exemptions in Alabama. That would seem to be not legal.
May 24, 2017, Tuberville registered to vote in Florida. October, 2018, claimed the homestead exception on that first house in Auburn. November 6, 2018, Tuberville voted in Florida while claiming he lived in Alabama with the homestead exemption. March 28, 2019 Tuberville registered to vote in Alabama. In 2020, as Tuberville was running for Senator, both Jeff Sessions and Doug Jones questioned his residency. August, 2023, a Washington Post investigation showed that Tuberville had sold all of his property in Alabama, and that his wife was registered as a real estate agent in Florida, but not in Alabama.
The Alabama Constitution states that candidates for governor must be residents for "at least seven years next before the date of their election." What do you think "next before" means? According to the Alabama code, "next before" means exactly the same thing as "preceding."
So you've got where does he vote? Where is his primary residence? What do his income taxes show? And in whose name are the utility bills? And for which house?
There are 4 types of homestead exemptions in Alabama. They have to be renewed each year to get the break on property and income taxes. He appears to be saying all three residences are his primary residence. That's fraud.
There's also the potential voting fraud.
What do his federal income taxes show versus his state income tax, if he filed them at all in Alabama, and where did he vote in 2020, 2022 and 2024?
It's a really tangled story, and Tommy isn't going to get away with claims of innocence. There's too much conflicting information and the reporter at AL.com isn't going to give up. His name is Kyle Whitmire. He won a Pulitzer Prize for commentary in 2023.
Still another reporter laid out what happens when a challenge is made. These are the things a court will consider:
Where a person lays his head, where the majority of his belongings are, where his clothes are, did he pay bills there, hold family functions there, and more. Records can be subpoened like tax returns, other legal documents like property deeds, mortgages and still more.
This happened to an Alabama House member that lived in one district, but ran in a district where he was allegedly renting space from a friend. That didn't completely play out because the Alabama AG stepped in and convicted him for felony voter fraud.
The Alabama Republican Party may not just assume Tuberville is qualified. As the stupidest man in the US Senate, he isn't qualified for anything. But here we're talking about eligibility. If for some reason the Alabama Republicans decide to put them on the ballot, Democrat or Libertarian candidates will challenge. He will go through the court process that is all too likely to prove that not only is he not a resident of Alabama, but also a felon for both voting fraud and tax evasion.
It would serve him right for being such a dick nose in holding up military promotions for almost a year and being a stupid MAGA supporter of Trump. His defense of Trump's actions are extremely humorous and nonsensical.
Remember, this is the man who had to have white nationalists explained to him. He simply had no clue as to what they were, only that the Democrats wanted to get them out of the military, so he was for them.
The Alabama governors race is coming up in 2026. Tuberville would be smart to stay where he is. But being smart isn't who he is.
This will be fun to watch.
