ROBERTSDALE — Alabama House District 96 Republican candidate Danielle Duggar told the Alabama Farmers Federation (ALFA) she opposes gambling expansion and is fighting for freedom during an event in Robertsdale.
“I'm running for this seat because I don't feel we have good conservative representation in the House,” said Duggar. “We have a few who can be relied upon to vote the right way most of the time, but we need more.”
ALFA endorsed Duggar, calling her a conservative leader in the community.
Duggar began working on grassroots conservative education issues when she realized the curriculum in Alabama schools needed a closer look. The Baldwin County, Alabama Education Work Team was created to study math, reading and social studies curricula.
“What we found is that state-approved text for social studies was atrocious,” Duggar explained. “We found historical inaccuracies. We found Florida history in the Alabama history chapter – no mention of our Civil War battles that were fought here in the state of Alabama. We found editorializing consistently throughout the text where you've got California publishers putting their biased slant on our social studies education. They even had a section of the text – this was fourth through sixth grade social studies – where they praised communist and fascist leaders like Mao, Stalin and Hitler as being strong leaders who cared about their countrymen.”
Duggar said findings were presented to the State Board of Education, but the same texts are still in use. The State Board of Education had a split vote on the issue after the group’s work, but Duggar said that isn’t all she’s worked on.
“I've been an advocate for keeping taxes low, for protecting parental rights, for protecting what I call medical freedom, where if you choose not to take a vaccine, you have that right to do so without any pressure, coercion, or penalty,” Duggar added. “I think that's very important. If we want to have freedom, your freedom starts at the barrier of your skin. So these are some issues I've fought for, and I'm very thankful to have the support of our Alabama farmers because, like them, I also believe gambling would be detrimental to our state and especially having casinos here in residential areas, next to our neighborhoods, next to our farms, next to our schools. It is going to increase stress on our city services. We're going to have to increase policing. We're going to have more strain on our infrastructure, and it's going to be bad for business overall.”
Duggar is running in the Republican primary for State Rep. Matt Simpson (R-Daphne).
The primary election is May 19.
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