Tuberville Calls His New Transition Team “Heavy Hitters”
Virtually every governor elected to office begins their term with a plan to reduce the size of state government before they eventually discover Alabama State Government is not as bloated as they had claimed as a candidate.
They typically begin their "right-sizing" government with a plan to cut the size of the state vehicle fleet. The problem with that is, it leads to a significant number of employees who have to travel as part of their job being forced to use their personal vehicles. That makes it difficult to recruit workers.
Requiring vehicles to be checked out of a motor pool only fully works if the employee is working in Montgomery. State government is spread across the entire state.
There is no doubt that there is some waste in government but too often the political remedies don't just cutback, they cut to the bone.
Many conservative politicians regularly claim state government should be run like a business, but it is not a business. State agencies have state and local laws, requirements and procedures they must follow, and government is not a "for profit" business.
The presumptive winner of the November General Election is Republican Tommy Tubervillle. The candidate of the business oriented Republican party has appointed a transition team he is calling "The Golden Age Action Team " of advisors. Their mission per Tuberville's Chief of Staff Jordan Doufexis is to "...give Coach a plan to clean up the place,” a place that is ruled by a Republican super majority.
Besides Doufexis, the transition team is comprised of Mobile political consultant Jonathan Gray, Montgomery attorney Gibson Vance, health care entrepreneur Jim McLane, tax consultant Chad Witcher, Birmingham attorney Loree Skelton, retired oilman Bruce Culpepper, businessman Kyle Burt and trucking magnate Reid Dove.
Tuberville pointed out the team is made up of Alabama "heavy hitters" and noted there are no lobbyists, legislators or former elected officials among the members.
Doufexis says the former Auburn Football Coach has given them a game plan to find waste and duplication within state government.
Critics worry that the plan sounds too much like Donald Trump and Elon Musk's DOGE, a quasi-government agency tasked with shrinking and streamlining the federal government but cut too deep in some critical federal agencies.
“Most politicians wait until they win to start figuring out how to deliver on what they promised,” Tuberville said in the press release. “We’re not going to spend our first year holding meetings and making excuses. We’re going to walk in prepared and ready to win on day one.”
Tuberville will meet Democrat Doug Jones, who he defeated to win his current senate seat, in the November General Election.
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