Sweet Home Alabama? Not for Sen. Tommy Tuberville, apparently

While there are no doubt many good reasons to live in Alabama, its ruby-red politics are not part of that list. Football coach Tommy Tuberville is now one of Alabama’s senators, and who the eff ever asked for that? Not ‘Bama progressives, that’s for sure, nor the 920,478 people who voted for incumbent Democrat Doug Jones. For them, it must’ve felt like suddenly being told their new boss was a potato.

Private citizens remain free to move to Alabama, stay in Alabama, or leave Alabama, but one of the few people who actually must live there apparently doesn’t. That would be Tuberville himself.

The good senator, who’s been singlehandedly undermining our military’s readiness on behalf of longtime GOP spokesmascot Zippy the Zygote, has apparently been living in Florida this whole time, according to a new Washington Post fact-check.

As the Post recounts, Tuberville made a trip to the Wiregrass region of Alabama in June, telling locals that the area is “one of the best-kept secrets in Alabama” and adding that “everyone is seeing the growth in Florida, but that will only last so long because you can only take so many people in the Florida area.”

In other words, “stay in Alabama, folks! It’s a great place to live—unless you happen to have a $3 million beach house in Florida, that is!” 

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