President Donald Trump has accomplished more during his first week in office than some presidents have in their first year.
He has already delivered on many of his campaign promises, from abortion and immigration to wasteful government spending and DEI. If Trump can address these issues in such a short amount of time, what’s stopping Alabama from doing the same? In other words, where is Alabama’s Trump?
That’s the question 1819 News CEO Bryan Dawson asked on last week’s episode of “1819 News: The Podcast.” After recounting his trip to Washington, D.C. for Trump’s inauguration and praising the president's week-one progress, Dawson said Alabama desperately needs similar leadership, one bold enough to follow through on a true conservative agenda.
“Who is going to be the person who rids us of the nonsense we see on a daily basis? It's absolute ridiculousness," Dawson said. "There's no leadership in the state at all at levels where it needs to be. And when I say there's no leadership, what I mean by that, there's three positions. You have a Speaker of the House, you have a Senate Pro Tem, and you have a Governor. Those are the people who drive what's happening legislatively in this state. We've got an incredible Attorney General.”
"We got a new Senate Pro Tem. We haven't really gotten to see what he's going to do yet, so this doesn't apply to Garlan. But historically, what we've seen since I've been paying attention to Alabama politics, we'll even go back 10 years since I've been in Alabama, we've not seen leadership,” he added.
Dawson also said the state needed to spend its money better and not give it to agencies and organizations that aren’t up to standard.
“The worse they do, the more money they get. That's the way that everything is structured," he said. "When is someone going to come in the state of Alabama and break that up?"
Dawson concluded with an example: “Think about a ship. If that ship is out in the ocean and it does not have a destination, the wind and the waves are going to crush that ship up against the rocks eventually. But if you give that same ship a destination, it will use that same wind and waves to get to its positive end, to get to its destination. And so that is this idea as a state, as a nation, you hear Trump doing it, he's constantly casting a positive vision, this is where we're going, this is how we're gonna get there.
"Who is going to be that for our state?”
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