UA athletics official touts nonpartisan approach
TUSCALOOSA | Thad Turnipseed, a University of Alabama athletics department official, has announced his candidacy for the Alabama Senate in District 5, which includes north-central Tuscaloosa County.
Turnipseed, who is making his first bid for public office, is seeking the Republican nomination in next year’s election but said he would take a nonpartisan approach to governing.
“I am going to try to be the non-candidate — the candidate who does not act like a candidate in a partisan way and works for the people,” he said. “I don’t think it is the issues that matter right now. I think the root of the problem is nobody gets along with anybody, and I want to change that.
“We need people down there (in Montgomery) who get along with each other and put Alabama first.”