U.S. Rep. Barry Moore (R-Enterprise) joined "The Jeff Poor Show", guest-hosted by Apryl Marie Fogel, on Mobile radio's FM Talk 106.5 this week to discuss his campaign, Iran and his hopes that the Alabama Legislature will create its own Freedom Caucus.
“We need true conservative leadership, and the governor is going to need that. Coach Tuberville is going to need that in both bodies, in both chambers in Montgomery,” Moore said, summing up why he believes a caucus would be helpful.
He explained that there's already an effort to create Freedom Caucus-style groups around the nation.
“Yeah, we're actually there putting out House Freedom Caucuses within state legislatures. And I think that's vitally important, especially if you've got a conservative governor. And if you believe in what the House Freedom Caucus stands for, then there's always a need for people to pull the conference to the right,” Moore explained.
“We don't want to California our Alabama. We don't want us to become what ... most of us consider failed state governments and woke, wasteful groups," he added. "And so, House Freedom Caucus in DC, we do that.”
He noted that although they're not the majority, having only 40 members in Washington, D.C., even with their relatively small number, they "pull the caucus to the right."
“And so, I think it would be extremely helpful if Coach had somebody like that," he added.
“Coach's Liberty score is a 95. Since he's been in the Senate, we've been there the same amount of time. I went to D.C. in 2020, and he went to the Senate. And I got a 96. I beat him by one point,” Moore said.
“I was razzling about that. But he's a conservative, and he's going to need allies in the House and in the Senate and the state legislature to help him truly move Alabama and keep us red. I mean, we often, we, you know, the Democratic Party has changed a lot, and we've had a lot of people come to our party and change labels, but not really the idea of a limited government,” he expanded. “It'd be great to have some HFC guys at the state legislative level that could pull that conference to the right.”
Speaking to the difference between Trump’s first and second terms, Moore stressed that the Freedom Caucus has helped accomplish his agenda.
“There was a honeymoon, I guess, stage in there. But even early on, they went after President Trump. And so I think Trump figured out in the second term, ‘hey, I've got to put people around me that truly believe in me as the executive, as the commander in chief, as the leader of the Republican Party.,”
“Coach is going to have those challenges in Alabama and Montgomery, too. Like you said, early on, they'll be like, well, he was elected and the people wanted.
"But behind the scenes, that swamp, that system that loves power and tries to control the outcomes, that is going to be the fight that the next governor is going to have to take on. And it would be great if he had a HFC at the state level to pull the conference to the right and push truly, truly conservative ideas and not the good ol’ boys system, not you scratch my back, I'll scratch your back, we'll all sing kumbaya. That's not what we need.”
Moore went on to discuss the "golden age" of Alabama when Republicans took power in 2010 and the success that followed, while laying out his expectation that those days can and will return.
“We have land, labor, and climate conducive to that. We just need to make sure we've got a governor and a legislature that is not about bigger government, not about more taxes, but limited government, freedom for people, and opportunity," Moore concluded.
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