Former Alabama Supreme Court Justice Jay Mitchell criticized Katherine Robertson's campaign for Alabama Attorney General on Friday after she reported a $150,000 campaign donation from "Florida billionaire and radical pro-abortion activist Hugh Culverhouse Jr." last week.
Alabama Attorney General Steve Marshall, a candidate for U.S. Senate, is term-limited from seeking re-election to his current role. Both Mitchell, Robertson and Blount County District Attorney Pamela Casey are vying to be the Republican nominee for attorney general in 2026.
The Mitchell campaign said in a press release, "Culverhouse, who has poured millions into advancing abortion-on-demand nationwide, infamously attacked the state and the University of Alabama after the historic abortion ban in 2019. He led a boycott of Alabama and publicly ridiculed the state for defending life, calling it the 'land of the backward' and full of 'hicks.' The University of Alabama Board of Trustees returned his $26 million donation."
Culverhouse donated $250,000 to Planned Parenthood to build a clinic in Birmingham in 2019.
"Katherine Robertson didn't just take $150,000 from a radical pro-abortion activist—she took it from a man who openly mocked Alabama and attacked our pro-life law," Mitchell said in a statement. "Taking his money is a betrayal of Alabama values."
Mitchell said that Culverhouse's investment in Robertson is part of a broader strategy to undermine Alabama's conservative leadership.
"This is the same Hugh Culverhouse Jr. who paid for an abortion clinic in Birmingham and tried to use his money to bully Alabama into abandoning its pro-life principles. Now he's trying to buy influence in the Attorney General's office? That should raise flags for every pro-life voter in Alabama," Mitchell said. "Robertson may sell out to radical left-wing billionaires, but I will not. The people of Alabama deserve an Attorney General who will defend Alabama's laws and pro-life values without apology."
The Robertson campaign fired back at Mitchell on Friday, saying, "After spending the last 18 months campaigning for the Alabama Supreme Court under false pretenses, lying to donors, and misleading the people of Alabama, 'woke' corporate lawyer Jay Mitchell, who is best known for closing IVF clinics across Alabama and standing with cop-hating liberals, is now attacking a Trump mega-donor who has a long history of supporting pro-life conservatives across the country, including President Donald Trump, Senator Katie Britt, Speaker Mike Johnson, and now Katherine Robertson."
"Mitchell's latest attempt to mislead voters comes as no surprise. After lying to the people of Alabama in his campaign for the Supreme Court, only to quit weeks into the job," Annabel Martinson, Robertson's campaign manager, said. "Not only has Jay Mitchell misled voters and donors in Alabama by raising money for one race and using it for another, he's actively soliciting and accepting contributions from woke anti-Trump Chicago trial lawyers who have a long history of bankrolling radical liberals such as Kamala Harris, Rashida Talib, and Elizabeth Warren."
Martinson continued, "Jay knows his campaign is on life support. His liberal past is quickly catching up to him as Conservatives around Alabama learn of his lies, backroom dealings, and consistent record of anti-conservative liberal rulings."
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