Coach Tommy Tuberville commits unsportsmanlike conduct in Alabama Senate race
by Quin Hillyer
| January 07, 2020 12:02 PM
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Coach Tommy Tuberville commits unsportsmanlike conduct in Alabama Senate race
by Quin Hillyer
| January 07, 2020 12:02 PM
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As the wacky, high-profile Senate race in Alabama heats up with one top candidate’s release of a new TV ad, another major contender, former Auburn University head football coach Tommy Tuberville, is proving to be just another mud-slinging politician.
Predictably, Tuberville proves it in the very campaign literature that repeatedly proclaims he is not a typical career politician. The unintentional self-parody is almost priceless.
The first lines of his Dec. 5 fundraising mailer blast fellow candidate Jeff Sessions as a “career politician.†It continues: “One thing I am not is a career politician. In fact, I got in this race because I was tired of weak-kneed career politicians not following through on promises to Alabamans. That’s the difference between Jeff Sessions and me.â€
The rest of the letter makes Tuberville a candidate for Clichés Anonymous. Four times he stresses that he supports President Trump, thrice more he rails against career or “professional†politicians, six times he blasts the Washington “swamp†that must be drained of its “creatures.†He also fulminates against the “deep state†and the “rigged†and “sham†impeachment “witch hunt†while accusing Sessions of “cashing in on decades of D.C. favors and insider money!†(Yes, the exclamation point was his, not mine.)
And it all surrounds a bullet-pointed series of attacks on Sessions, at least two of which contain refutable falsehoods. All of which predicates Tuberville repeatedly asking for donations of up to $2,800 for each stage of the election.
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