Brooks brings ‘Drain the Swamp’ campaign to courthouse today – Cullman Times Online

Congressman Mo Brooks will stump on the Cullman County Courthouse steps this morning ahead of the U.S. Senate Republican primary election Aug. 15.

At 9:30 a.m., Brooks, who currently serves in the U.S. House of Representatives for Alabamas 5th District, will bring his Drain the Swamp campaign bus tour to Cullman.

Hes running against a crowded field of 10 GOP candidates, including incumbent Luther Strange who was appointed to the Senate in February and is backed by a super political action committee tied to Majority Leader Mitch McConnell.

This week, Brooks went on the attack against Strange over his support of President Trump and Stranges negative ads against fellow challenger Roy Moore, former Alabama Supreme Court Chief Justice.

Theres only one Never Trumper in this race: Luther Strange. I supported President Trump in 2016 and wrote a $2,500 check to help him win, Brooks said. Luther never endorsed Trump, never donated and is now helping Mitch McConnell block the America First Agenda in the Senate.

My record is clear: Ive voted with President Trump 95 percent of the time in Congress. I have a proven conservative record and the endorsements of Laura Ingraham, Sean Hannity, Mark Levin, and Ann Coulter. Luther Strange has Mitch McConnell.

Since his election to the U.S. House of Representatives in 2010, Brooks has pushed for a sustainable, balanced federal budget, ending illegal immigration, maintaining a strong national defense, and an economic environment that benefits working American families.

He currently serves on the Armed Services, Foreign Affairs, and Science, Space and Technology committees and co-chairs the Space Subcommittee and is past Chairman of the Research and Science Education Subcommittee. He was a founding member of the Freedom Caucus, a group of fiscal and social conservative members.

After graduating from Grissom High School in Huntsville, he attended Duke University, where he graduated in just three years with a double major in political science and economics, with highest honors in economics.

He went on to get his law degree from the University of Alabama Law School and worked as a prosecutor in the Tuscaloosa District Attorneys office, where he built a solid tough-on-crime reputation. He obtained guilty verdicts in all of the 20-plus jury trials he prosecuted. He then returned to Huntsville to clerk for presiding Circuit Court Judge John David Snodgrass.

He served eight years in Alabama House of Representatives beginning in 1982 where he wasjust one of eleven Republican legislators out of 140 and the only elected Republican legislator north of Birmingham.

Brooks was appointed Madison County District Attorney in 1991, Special Assistant Attorney General for then Attorney General Jeff Sessions from 1995-1996 and Special Assistant Attorney General for then Attorney General Bill Pryor from 1996-2002.

In 1996, Brooks unseated an eight-year incumbent Republican for the Madison County Commission and went on to win the general election. He served four terms on the commission before campaigning for his current congressional seat.

Brooks also touts his former job as a fill-in radio talk show host for WVNN in 1990 until the new host arrived a skinny kid named Sean Hannity.

He and his wife Martha have four children and eight grandchildren.

For more information about Brooks campaign, go online to mobrooksforsenate.com.

Tiffeny Owens can be reached at 256-734-2131, ext. 135.

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