Mo Brooks in 2022 AL Senate race
On Budget & Economy:
2010: Trend towards socialism will bankrupt America
[In 2010, running for House,] Brooks said that the country was veering dangerously towards socialism and that the trend must be reversed.Within four months of taking the seat, he charged in a house for speech that the
United States is "risk of insolvency in bankruptcy because the socialist members of this body choose to spend money that we do not have". After Democrats protested,
Brooks asked that his remarks be stricken from the record, but did not apologize for them. Several months later, at a forum back home, Brooks said he supported any measure "short of shooting them"
to force illegal immigrants back to their home countries. Latino lawmakers and groups condemned his remarks.
Source: Almanac of American Politics on 2022 Alabama Senate race
Oct 5, 2015
On Civil Rights:
2014: Democrats wage war on whites
Brooks landed in an even bigger controversy in August 2014. As by conservative radio host Laura Ingraham about a statement that the Republican party was alienating non-white voters, Brooks responded: "This is a part of the war on whites that's being
launched by the Democratic Party. And the way in which they're launching this war is by claiming that whites hate everybody else. It's a part of the strategy that Barack Obama implemented in 2008, continued in 2012, where he divides us all on race,
on sex, greed, envy, class warfare, and all those kinds of things." Ingraham responded that the characterization was "a little out there," and numerous Democrats blasted Brooks for playing the race card. But he was unapologetic. On a regular basis,
Brooks said a few days later, Democrats "appeal to specific racial groups by saying we will protect you, that particular racial group -well, who are they talking about protecting them from? Well, they're talking about protecting them from Republicans."
Source: Almanac of American Politics on 2022 Alabama Senate race
Oct 5, 2015
On Corporations:
Stay out of politics or adopt pro-America positions
Brooks offered a warning in response to Major League Baseball's decision to move this year's All-Star Game from Atlanta over Georgia's new voting law. "Republicans are fans most likely able to afford Major League Baseball obscene ticket, parking &
food prices," Brooks wrote on Twitter. Brooks said the league "should stay out of politics, or at least adopt pro-America political positions, or risk losing their #GOP fan base."
Source: Birmingham News on 2022 Alabama Senate race
Apr 3, 2021
On Crime:
Stand up for law and order, back law enforcement community
Brooks told Newsmax TV, "We've seen what has happened in places in Minnesota and other parts of the United States America, particularly those cities that are governed by rather weak, anti-law enforcement socialist Democrats, and this is going to
be in the future of all America if we don't stand up for law and order, and make sure that our law enforcement community understands that we're gonna have their back like they have our back when our lives as citizens aren't risk."
Source: Newsmax e-zine on 2022 Alabama Senate race
Apr 23, 2021
On Drugs:
Allow doctors and patients right-to-try medical marijuana
Q: As a cancer survivor, you were a vocal supporter of the Right to Try bill. Many medical marijuana advocates argue that cannabis has some medical applications. Do you support the descheduling of marijuana as a class 1 controlled substance?
Brooks: I support allowing doctors and patients to decide which medications that they use to treat the ailments from which they are suffering.
Source: Alabama Political Reporter on 2022 Alabama Senate race
Mar 25, 2021
On Education:
LGBT sex ed? Hell no; not in Alabama
All three GOP candidates for Alabama's open U.S. Senate seat voiced support for Alabama's recent passage of legislation involving LGBT issues, including an amendment modeled on Florida's so called "Don't Say Gay" bill.
U.S. Rep. Mo Brooks said he believes the bills are pro-science and will protect Alabama from a left-wing agenda to lie to children. "The amoral Left claims they own our kids and wants to lie to our children about biology and science," said
Brooks. "My reply is simple: 'Hell no. Not in Alabama.'"
Gov. Kay Ivey signed the two bills into law [this week]. One criminalizes gender-affirming surgeries for trans youth. Another requires students use the bathroom of the "biological sex"
listed on their birth certificate and, in an amendment modeled on Florida's law, prevents classroom discussion of topics "regarding sexual orientation or gender identity" in kindergarten through fifth grade.
Source: Birmingham News on 2022 Alabama Senate race
Apr 13, 2022
On Government Reform:
Democrats stole election: pretty much it for our country
[On election integrity]: "This is pretty much it for our country," Brooks said in a December podcast interview that has not been previously reported. "In my judgment, it rivals the election of 1860," he added, referring to the election of Abraham
Lincoln, "and we saw what ensued from that"--meaning the Civil War. Brooks was outspoken in baselessly accusing Democrats of "stealing" the presidential election and seeking ways to keep Donald Trump in power.
Source: Propublica.org e-zine on 2022 Alabama Senate race
Apr 7, 2021
On Gun Control:
Socialists hope for mass gun confiscations
Q: Are mass gun confiscations likely if Democrats are able to keep the presidency and continue their hold on Congress?Brooks: The socialists certainly hope so. Congressman Eric Swalwell came to Alabama in 2020 and said exactly that. You either give
up your guns or he will have law enforcement seize them from you.
Q: In your opinion, will we ever conclusively know who won the 2020 election?
Brooks: That reminds me of the time that Sen. Daniel Inouye said 'How America stole the Panama Canal fair
and square.' Biden & his team stole the election fair and square, but now he has been sworn in as President so he won.
[OTI: It was actually Republican Senator Samuel I. Hayakawa who said in 1976 that we should keep the Panama Canal because "we stole
it fair and square." In the 1970s and 1980s, Samuel Hayakawa was a Senator from California of Japanese-American descent; Daniel Inouye was also of Japanese-American descent but was elected to the Senate from Hawaii until his death in office in 2012.]
Source: Alabama Political Reporter on 2022 Alabama Senate race
Mar 25, 2021
On Immigration:
Don't flood labor market with cheap foreign labor
Q: Is there the possibility of you coming to common ground with Democrats on a comprehensive immigration reform package?Brooks: I sure hope not, because the socialists support open borders and have no intent to compromise on border security. Any
compromise with them would be a sellout. We had a compromise with the socialist Democrats in 1986. President Reagan gave amnesty and the socialists then broke their word and never gave the promised border security.
Q: In the last election, the Alabama
Farmers Federation did not endorse you. Have you patched things up with them?
Brooks: My positions are unchanged. I don't support flooding the American labor market with cheap foreign labor hurting struggling American families nor am I comfortable with
the tens of billions of dollars in food stamps and farm subsidies that farm bureau insists I support at a time America suffers from a debt burden that risks a debilitating national insolvency and bankruptcy that would do great damage to American lives.
Source: Alabama Political Reporter on 2022 Alabama Senate race
Mar 25, 2021
On Jobs:
Mandate employers use E-Verify with harsh penalties
Brooks has introduced the "Accountability Through Electronic Verification Act," a bill that would permanently reauthorize the E-Verify program and make its use mandatory for employers."The prospect of a job entices illegal aliens to break into
America," Brooks said. "Making E-Verify mandatory for all companies coupled with harsh penalties for violations cuts off illegal aliens from American jobs. The result? Fewer illegal aliens to take jobs from and suppress the wages of American workers."
Source: Alabama Political Reporter on 2022 Alabama Senate race
Apr 2, 2021
On Principles & Values:
Trump endorsement: Brooks has COURAGE and FIGHT
Trump is endorsing Rep. Mo Brooks in the Alabama Senate race. "Few Republicans have as much COURAGE and FIGHT as Alabama Congressman Mo Brooks," Trump said in a statement, adding that Brooks is "a great Conservative Republican leader,
who will stand up for America First no matter what obstacles the Fake News Media, RINOs, or Socialist Democrats may place in his path." Trump added that Brooks "has my Complete and Total Endorsement."
Source: Politico.com e-zine on 2022 Alabama Senate race
Apr 7, 2021
On Principles & Values:
Spoke at rally: start taking down names and kicking ass
Brooks, who was first elected to the House in 2010, became a staunch Trump ally.
The congressman was a speaker at the pro-Trump Jan. 6 rally that preceded the Capitol riot. Brooks, 66, urged the crowd to "start taking down names and kicking ass."
Source: Politico.com e-zine on 2022 Alabama Senate race
Apr 7, 2021
On Social Security:
Introduced No Social Security for Illegal Aliens Act
Brooks has introduced the "No Social Security for Illegal Aliens Act of 2020." The bill would prohibit the distribution of Social Security benefits to illegal aliens who perform unauthorized work in the United States.
Demonstrating their contempt for American law, illegal aliens often use fraudulent Social Security numbers to flout current law which forbids illegal aliens from receiving Social Security payments.
Source: Highland County Press on 2022 Alabama Senate race
Apr 2, 2021
On Gun Control:
2nd Amendment is about taking government back from dictators
The Second Amendment is designed to help ensure that we, the citizenry, always have the right to take back our government should it become dictatorial. That was a great fear of the Founding Fathers and, quite frankly, it's a fear today.
The moment that we take from our citizenry our ability to take our government back is the moment that the ability of dictatorial forces increases to the point where perhaps they will try to implement a dictatorial government at the federal level.
Source: Fox News Sunday on 2022 Alabama Senate race
May 29, 2022
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