During a Wednesday appearance on FM Talk 106.5's "The Jeff Poor Show," Alabama gubernatorial frontrunner U.S. Sen. Tommy Tuberville (R-Auburn) laid out his priorities if he were elected to lead the state.
Tuberville outlined his intention to improve the state's workforce, education and infrastructure.
"[W]e'll look at things like infrastructure, we'll look at making sure that — I know we've got the border closed down [and] President Trump's done an outstanding job there, but we still have 15-20 million illegals in this country," he told host Jeff Poor. "We've got to make sure that they're not spending money of the taxpayers in Alabama. We've got to oversee that. Now, we do need a visa system where we need good workers, but we can't be paying out Medicare, Medicaid, Social Security, health care, education for people that are not paying into the system."
"There's a lot of things that we've got to do infrastructure-wise, continuing to build," Tuberville continued. "We've done a great job with the things that are going on with the car manufacturing. Jeff, there's not a week that goes by in Washington, D.C. that I don't have a manufacturing group, whether it's from the United States, Canada, Mexico, Europe that wants to move manufacturing to the state of Alabama. I'm going to be a recruiter and a salesman. For us to grow and make life better for people in Alabama, we've got to grow and get manufacturing in our state, more jobs."
Tuberville stressed the need to build roads instead of "putting asphalt on top of roads."
"We have over a thousand bridges that are condemned. That's atrocious," he lamented, adding, "We've got to, obviously, start building roads instead of just putting asphalt on top of roads."
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