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Judge Dismisses Challenge to Tuberville’s Alabama Residency · In Focus with Carolyn Hutcheson

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  Support comes from the Rosa Parks Museum on Troy University's Montgomery campus,
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  located on the spot of Mrs. Parks' historic 1955 arrest, and featuring
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  exhibits that chronicle the history of the Montgomery bus boycott.
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  More information at troy.edu slash Rosa Parks.
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  From Troy Public Radio, this is the News Wrap, and I'm Carolyn Hutcheson.
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  Gubernatorial candidate Tommy Tuberville has had his Alabama residency questioned,
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  and Todd Stacy, host of Alabama Public Television's Capitol Journal,
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  discusses the latest court ruling on the issue.
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  And the wild card is about a cat literally stealing the show.
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  Todd Stacey, welcome back to the News Wrap from Capitol Journal on Alabama Public Television.
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  Good to be with you, as always.
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  What are the big topics this week?
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  I guess you can start with the breaking news that a Montgomery judge has dismissed
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  the latest case challenging Tommy Tuberville's residency.
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  You know, there have been several attempts to challenge Tuberville's residency.
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  The Constitution says you have to be a resident of Alabama seven years prior to becoming governor,
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  and he's obviously been a U.S. senator from Alabama for the last six years,
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  but he has a beach home in Florida, and there's been a bunch of folks arguing
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  that he spent so much time down there that he doesn't qualify as a resident here.
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  But the court ruled that they don't even have the jurisdiction to get into that.
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  Under Alabama law, you can challenge that, but actually after somebody's elected.
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  You know, we've done some reporting on that, where Tuberville obviously does spend a lot of time
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  at his Florida beach home, but technically, I mean, he's got a homestead tax exemption
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  at his home in Auburn, and that is plenty to count as residency.
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  They can appeal this if they want.
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  You may see other challenges, but it was a big win for Tuberville, and his team is taking it as such.
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  Speaking in their football metaphors, they say they're now 5-0 in defeating residency challenges,
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  so that's a big win for Tuberville.
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  Well, Todd, do you have a wild card for us?
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  We love our pets. We love our dogs and cats.
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  This is a cat wild card from ABC News.
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  It's called Romeo and Juliet.
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  On this production of Romeo and Juliet, this cat got on stage during the death scene.
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  You know, Juliet takes the poison and wakes up to find Romeo has killed himself,
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  and so this cat is just on Romeo, just chewing his hair and playing with him,
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  but the show must go on.
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  Juliet does a really good job of stating a character.
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  Poor Romeo is getting eaten up by this cat.
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  It's quite a performance.
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  An unforgettable performance of Romeo and Juliet in Turkey.
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  Great wild card, Todd.
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  So who's on Capitol Journal tonight at 730, Sunday at noon on APT?
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  I'm going to be talking with State Senator Chris Elliott.
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  He's from Baldwin County, and they've got big news down there
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  with the Mobile River Bridge project getting the green light.
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  Also going to be talking with Dr. Tania Stewart,
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  famous for her roles in The Heat of the Night, Time to Kill,
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  and she's got a new movie coming out called Where is Your Faith?
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  And, Todd, where will that movie be shown in Montgomery?
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  That's right. There's a screening premiere of the movie.
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  It's Where is Your Faith, August 2nd at the Capri there in Cloverdale,
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  so you want to check that out.
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  So we're going to preview that new movie,
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  but she's also using her career and experience
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  to try to promote the film industry in Alabama.
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  She says we have so much to offer to producers and directors
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  in terms of our history and beauty in this state.
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  We need to be using it.
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  So she's going to talk about how we can do better
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  in terms of growing the film industry in Alabama
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  for artistic's sake and for economic development.
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  Todd, finally, I want to congratulate you
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  on your hosting of Sweet Home 250 at American Village in Montevallo.
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  Thank you. Credit goes to the crew and to the American Village.
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  And so aptv.org, you can watch the whole thing.
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  They are definitely the place to be for America's 250.
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  It was an honor.
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  Joining us for the news wrap was Todd Stacy,
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  host of Alabama Public Television's Capital Journal,
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  tonight on Alabama Public Television at 730, Sunday at noon, and on YouTube.
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  More information can be found at the aptv.org website.
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  Thanks for joining us for In Focus,
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  which is a podcast wherever you get your podcasts.
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  I'm Carolyn Hutcheson,
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  and this is listener-supported Troy Public Radio.