API Resembles Ministry of Truth

 

The Alabama Policy Institute calls itself the premier think tank in Alabama. Oh, sure, no one else does, but at least API knows how to heap praise on itself. Welcome to Shoalanda Speaks, the next Pulitizer winner in editorial news writing.

We recently mentioned the API stance on UNA's mask requirements, but also telling is its rating of the Alabama Legislature. In the Senate, Larry Stutts merited a 98. Remember Stutts, once named the 2015 Alabama Scumbag of the Year? He opposed the legalization of medical marijuana, thus winning the API's favor.

On the other hand, Tim Melson was one of two Republican state senators to land at the bottom of the API's list. Dr. Melson supported the passage of the medical bill and helped to ensure it became law. For this one act, the API has declared him unfit.

As stated in our earlier blog, for an organization whose policy is based on free trade, why the opposition to medical marijuana? This seems to be another case of political pundits knowing more than researchers who have spent their entire lives studying various areas of health and medicine.

When doing future research on candidates, one might do very well to disregard the Alabama Policy Institute. It seems to need only its own version of Sassy to qualify as a Roy Moore clone.

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Have you heard of an Alabama Registered Nurse called David Aaron Hendricks from Limestone County? He certainly wants you to hear of him. Guess what? We do too...just not for the same reasons. Tune in tomorrow...