Recently elected State Rep. Cindy Myrex (R-Cullman) wants to focus on the “issues I campaigned on” heading into her first legislative session.
Myrex defeated Democrat nominee Matt Glover in a special election in October for House District 12 after winning a Republican primary runoff over Clint Hollingsworth in August.
“It was a great race. I learned a lot about myself during that race. I learned a lot about my community during the race. I learned a lot about the integrity of my people in the community. The Lord called me to do this,” Myrex said.
Myrex said she wanted to focus on rural healthcare and fire department funding.
“Right now, I’m working just really, really hard to see if I can get funding for my fire departments,” Myrex told 1819 News in a recent interview. “You know, grants (and) working with people to help me get grants and write grants and get them to the right places and the right hands. Working with my fire departments and volunteer fire departments. I don’t know that people understand that volunteer fire departments are in a crisis of having volunteers. We don’t have people just showing up to volunteer their time.”
Myrex continued, “We really need to work toward getting 24/7 EMTs and paramedics in more of our volunteer fire stations.”
“When we are thinking about rural healthcare, I really want to drive home the awareness of first responder healthcare, that kind of need that we have in the rural areas,” Myrex said. “Your first responders and the timeline of getting somebody makes a difference in the outcome whether it’s your child, your spouse, your mother, your father. That is so important to me. I would like to see some of our funding for rural healthcare to be driven in that direction for our local fire departments and first responders because there is a huge need in these communities for that. I think that there is a method to do that and hopefully I’ll get heard on that.”
Myrex said she expected legislation to repeal a law passed in 2025 that set up the framework for a Smith Lake development to pass quickly in the upcoming session.
“I feel pretty confident we’ll have it done pretty quick,” Myrex said. “I think Senator Gudger, I think he heard loud and clear the frustration and the opposition of that for this particular development and community. I think there are future conversations to be had for developments but this particular bill he is very willing to get that repealed and move on and do the things that need to be done for our community.”
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