I think what it says is that the marketing for it has done a pretty good job of trying to fashion this as a parent’s choice when it is really not a parent’s choice, it is a private school choice.
Doug Jones
The Public Record
United States Senator from Alabama
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September 22, 2026
I don’t want to take away the choice of folks who’ve already made a choice under this act.
— Doug Jones
“When you elect Doug Jones and Phil Ensler, you’re electing a team to help implement the same strategies, the same efficiencies in government, the same programs that we’re talking about on the campaign trail,”
“I want him to have a seat at the table, whether as officially as a member of the government’s cabinet or at least as a member of the government’s cabinet in an advisory role, we’re going to talk during a transition about what portfolio he…
“It’s almost like the lieutenant governor is a figurehead in the Legislature that just sits with a gavel,”
If (the legislature says) they want to protect IVF, let’s have a constitutional amendment that protects IVF.
Expanding Medicaid will get women’s health issues. I think more than any other thing except for maybe mental health front and center.
If you read Tommy Tuberville’s plan for data centers, just know that it’s not something that he just came up with.
If he wants to be the governor of Alabama, he cannot be a shareholder in the industry he is asking Alabama to bet its future on.
It appears that Tommy Tuberville is such an AI proponent because he has kept right on investing his money.
We’ve got to strike right now. As soon as I can get sworn in, we’ll get Phil (Ensler), we’ll get voters (and) we’re going to push for a constitutional amendment.
If Tommy Tuberville believes that Social Security is a scam, he’s coming for your state retirement.
What I see happening in Lowndes County right now is really typical of what’s wrong with Alabama government. Everything done behind closed doors, no transparency.
I want to give more power to local governments and create a citizen ballot initiative process to allow votes on popular issues the Legislature may block.
I know that there are construction jobs and union support for building data centers. I know that data centers have the potential for providing badly needed revenue for local communities. But I also know that these projects have the…
One year until we have guardrails and policies in place that protect our people and our communities.
Voting rights are not a chapter in the history book anymore. We don’t get to close that vote. They’re a living promise that must be defended in every generation, and we are seeing it right now today.
Republican women, Democratic women, independent women, you watch politicians in Montgomery and Washington decide that they know better than you do about your own body, your own family and your own life.
The fact is, Alabama is a poor state. It’s an unhealthy state, and Medicaid expansion is not a handout, it’s a hand up.
In this year, in 2026, we’re witnessing perhaps the greatest example of what is wrong with state government in Alabama and how big money works in our state.





