If Tommy Tuberville moved back to Alabama in August of 2018, why did he vote in Florida three months later?
That isn’t the question, but it might be an answer.
For years, Tuberville has struggled to convince everybody he was a bona fide Alabama “resident citizen.” Alabama law requires candidates for governor to have lived in the state for the last seven years.
The evidence didn’t seem to be on his side.
In Florida, he had a 4,000-square-foot beach house on the Gulf Coast, worth at least $4 million, which he has owned for nearly 20 years.
By 2023,Tuberville had sold his Alabama property.
In 2017, his wife and son bought a three-bedroom, one-bathroom Auburn house. The property has been appraised at about $300,000, less than a tenth of what the Florida beach house is worth. But this is what Tuberville said was his residence.
As a U.S. senator, Tuberville has used campaign funds and taxpayer dollars to fly to Florida often — to dine in its restaurants and to travel by car. As much as, if not more than, he does such things in Alabama.
In 2017, he filmed a promo for ESPNsaying he had moved to Floridaafter he retired from coaching, and called it “a great place to live.”
Recently, at an induction into the Alabama Sports Hall of Fame, Tuberville said he goes back to Auburn for three or four ball games a year, before he seemed to catch himself, saying “actually” he lived in Auburn, when not working in Washington, D.C.
Source: Drudge Report
