{"id":116033,"date":"2025-02-28T22:31:05","date_gmt":"2025-02-28T22:31:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/peraltafinancing.com\/alabama\/say-it-louder-bobby-singleton\/"},"modified":"2025-02-28T22:31:05","modified_gmt":"2025-02-28T22:31:05","slug":"say-it-louder-bobby-singleton","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fivemor.com\/?p=116033","title":{"rendered":"Say it louder, Bobby Singleton"},"content":{"rendered":"


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Finally, someone was willing to say what needed to be said. To pull no punches. To put it down, as my grandmother used to say, where the goats can get it.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cI think that my Republican colleagues are being cowards \u2026 and I said it, yes,\u201d state Sen. Bobby Singleton said Thursday afternoon.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Singleton\u2019s comments came following a marathon filibuster pulled off by himself and fellow Democratic Sen. Rodger Smitherman, and after Singleton had, moments before, ran through a laundry list of failures by Alabama Republicans to take a stand against Elon Musk, Donald Trump and the hundreds of millions of dollars in cuts, job losses and random acts of insanity that have negatively impacted this state.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

The only problem with what Singleton said is that he didn\u2019t say it louder and more times.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

But as it was, there was outrage among the rightwingers, which tells you that Singleton\u2019s words hit home. He\u2019s right, and deep down, they know he\u2019s right.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Republicans in this state have sat on their hands and kept their mouths shut as the co-president and his team of teenage programmers have slashed and burned vital institutions in Alabama, potentially costing the state billions in health care research funding and thousands of lost jobs. God only knows what awaits our military institutions and veterans services.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Singleton specifically called out Alabama Attorney General Steve Marshall for filing or joining a frivolous lawsuit per week when challenging the Biden administration\u2019s efforts to aid the marginalized or protect the planet, but never uttering a peep when the state\u2019s NIH funding was unceremoniously \u2013 and likely illegally \u2013 stopped by an unelected South African billionaire, who himself holds billions of dollars in government contracts.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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\u201cIt\u2019s hurting institutions like UAB,\u201d Singleton said. \u201cHundreds of millions of dollars can be taken from our research hospitals right here in this state. We could lose doctors in this state. Our attorney general hasn\u2019t said anything. Twenty-two other states have filed actions on that executive order and it has been halted in all 22 of those other states, but Alabama won\u2019t say anything.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201c(Marshall) is always jumping in and wanting to file actions against everything else but he won\u2019t file anything against this president and Elon Musk. I have a problem with that.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

It was at that point that Singleton called them all cowards.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

What else should he call them \u2013 these folks who are in power in this state but who stand idly by, hats in hands, and watch the good and decent people who work federal jobs be straight up vilified? Who watch their institutions, like Auburn University, the University of Alabama, UAB and all of our HBCUs, be defunded? Who stand quietly to the side as our veterans lose services? Who never utter a peep when vital services that aid some of Alabama\u2019s poorest, sickest and neediest citizens are stripped away? Who look the other way as farmers are teetering on the edge of losing their family farms?\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

I mean, no one\u2019s asking for these people to be John McCain voting to save Obamacare, but damn, say something. Make a phone call. Hold a town hall and tell people that you\u2019re going to have their backs, that you oppose the cuts, that you\u2019ll fight for their jobs.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Because I have to tell you, this is starting to turn very, very ugly for Republicans. The American public, even in this deep red state, is outraged by what they\u2019re seeing and the bungled, callous way these cuts are being handled. Rep. Terri Sewell, one of the state\u2019s two Democrats in Congress, said that her most recent telephone town hall had 20,000 callers. After an hour, at the very end, there were still 3,000 people on the line. That ain\u2019t normal.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

You can repeat all you\u2019d like that the American people voted for cuts, but that\u2019s like saying the American people voted to eat steaks after you served them rancid beef crawling with worms.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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Because no one voted to fire a bunch of FAA employees and then watch planes crash, or nearly crash, every other day. No one voted to fire nuclear workers and then rush to try and hire them back because you didn\u2019t realize what they did. No one voted to vilify good people who were just doing the jobs we offered to give them.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

And by the way, if you\u2019re one of the people out here trying to cast federal workers as moochers and spouting off about waste as an excuse to randomly fire people, your points would be so more well received had you even once voted to oust the incumbents lawmakers \u2013 the ones who approved the spending and all of the jobs you\u2019re now complaining about.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Thankfully, in addition to the public outrage, we\u2019re starting to see the federal courts step in the way of many of these cuts and firings. That\u2019s fairly par for the course for Alabama, where we\u2019ve survived thanks to federal court rulings that have prevented the dumbest among us from ruling with impunity.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

That doesn\u2019t make what Singleton said wrong. Nor does it lessen the need for someone to point it out.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Honestly, it was just refreshing to see someone take a stand for the state and for the working people in it. <\/span><\/p>\n

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