During a recent interview with Bill "Bubba" Bussey, U.S. Sen. Tommy Tuberville (R-Auburn) said he was looking forward to being Alabama's next governor.
The former Auburn football coach, widely considered the frontrunner in the gubernatorial race, said on last week's "Bubba on the Lake" podcast that he was excited to spend the fourth quarter of his life back home in Alabama, making it better.
“Well, you know, Bubba, I'm a builder," Tuberville told Bussey. "And, you know, I've put football teams together and hired people and, and tried to win all my life through coaching. You know, as a Senator, you work with a hundred people. You're not somebody that's going to make all the decisions. You just work with other people to get things done. If you're governor, you get to hire your staff, you get to hire the cabinet, you get to do things in a way that you can make your state better."
He continued, "We've got five million great people who live in the state of Alabama. I want to go back home. I'm in the fourth quarter of my life. And I want to put my hands on our state and make it grow. President Trump is giving more power back to the state. He believes in federalism. He believes in the money being spent by the state government and not by federal government. And as I talked with him when I've decided to run, I said, 'If you're successful, Mr. President, we're going to be successful in Alabama.' So I'm looking forward to it."
Tuberville said that to make Alabama great again, he would be a leader and a delegator of authority.
“[T]here's not really anybody qualified to be governor, as I am, of what I've done in my past, of putting things together and building and working with people and being a leader," he outlined. "You know, you've got to be able to be a leader and be a delegator of authority, and that's what I plan on doing. As a senator, we've worked very hard at making Alabama great again, and we're going to be the same thing as a governor.”
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