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Ken McFeeters, an insurance agent who is running against Sen. Tommy Tuberville (R-AL) for Governor of Alabama, filed a challenge to the senator’s residency.
According to The Hill, McFeeters said he believes that Tuberville lives in Santa Rosa Beach, Florida, and not Alabama.
“If you look at it, he does not live in Alabama. And we the people of Alabama, we’re not stupid,” McFeeters said, according to the outlet.
The Alabama Republican Party dismissed the challenge.
Tuberville is the overwhelming favorite to become the state’s next governor.
Tuberville is the presumptive lead in both the GOP primary and the November general election. Read more: https://t.co/CtPwsQA2Xn pic.twitter.com/cMMWtRfVYw
— AL.com (@aldotcom) February 2, 2026
The Hill shared further:
Tuberville’s campaign wrote in a press release that the senator’s team provided the Alabama GOP with “definitive proof” that he has continuously lived in the state since 2019.
“Finally, common sense has prevailed and this made-up ‘residency’ hoax will be put to bed for good,” Jordan Doufexis, his campaign manager, said in the release.
Tuberville was the head football coach at Auburn University in Auburn, Ala., from 1999 through 2008 and later coached at Texas Tech University and the University of Cincinnati. Doufexis noted that after his coaching career ended, Tuberville “moved back home to Alabama and has held a driver’s license, voted, and lived in Auburn” since 2019.
Tuberville was elected to the Senate in 2020 and took office in January 2021.
McFeeters published a lengthy response to the challenge dismissal, saying the decision puts the Alabama Republican Party in a “deeply troubling position.”
McFeeters Responds to ALGOP decision on Tuberville’s residency
“Senator Tuberville should either release the relevant records or step aside”—Ken McFeeters#ALpolitics @Ken4Governor
Link in comments ⬇️ pic.twitter.com/AX6jOOu4ka— Alabama Politics #alpolitics (@alpoliticsx) February 3, 2026
Read the full response published to Facebook:
I am disappointed in the Alabama Republican Party’s ruling, but let’s be absolutely clear about what the ALGOP did—and did not—decide.
The ALGOP did not find that Senator Tuberville is domiciled in Alabama. It did not verify, investigate, or vet his residency. The Party merely stated that it was unwilling to examine the issue at all.
That decision places the Alabama Republican Party in a deeply troubling position. The practical effect of this ruling is that if a candidate is wealthy enough to purchase a small property and declare it a “domicile of convenience,” the residency requirements of the Alabama Constitution can simply be ignored.
In other words, the ALGOP has now set a precedent that you do not actually have to live in Alabama—or be domiciled here—to run for Governor. You only have to be rich.
This is disastrous for Alabama. It opens the door to a hostile takeover of our executive branch by out-of-state elites who can buy a house, pour tens of millions of dollars into a campaign, and claim eligibility while living elsewhere.
If this stands, Alabama’s Constitution becomes optional for the wealthy and meaningless for everyone else.
Senator Tuberville’s candidacy has already shifted power away from everyday Alabamians and toward the rich and politically connected. That may be his first act as a gubernatorial candidate—but it should concern every Republican who believes in the rule of law.
I am pursuing a legal challenge so the courts can compel the production of objective evidence—travel records, CC statements showing location of spending habits, financial records, tax filings, utilities, and other documentation—to determine whether Senator Tuberville has in fact been domiciled in Alabama for the required seven consecutive years.
In the court of public opinion, this issue is not going his way. Alabamians do not believe him. At this point, transparency is the only remedy. Senator Tuberville should either release the relevant records or step aside.
Republicans are supposed to be the good guys. We believe in accountability, equal application of the law, and respect for the Constitution. We are better than this.
Finally, while Senator Tuberville is handing our opponents ammunition, let me be clear: Doug Jones is no answer. After his Senate term, he lived and worked in Washington, D.C., and he does not meet the seven-year residency requirement either. Hypocrisy does not cure hypocrisy.
Alabama deserves leadership that actually lives here—and plays by the same rules as everyone else.
Ken McFeeters, an insurance agent from Pelham, said he believes Tuberville lives at a multi-million dollar beach home in Santa Rosa Beach, Fla., and not a smaller house in Auburn that he claims as his main residency. pic.twitter.com/kGBH9e2UH0
— AL.com (@aldotcom) January 27, 2026
More from the Associated Press:
McFeeters said Monday that he is considering filing a lawsuit “to require him to release documentation showing he’s domiciled in Auburn and not his $6 million beach house.”
Property tax records show the former Auburn University football coach has a home in Auburn, Alabama, with an appraised value of $291,780 on which he claims a homestead exemption. He also has a beach home in Walton County, Florida, with an estimated market value of $5.5 million, according to property records. Tuberville’s wife and son initially purchased the home in 2017. The senator’s name was later added to the property.
“What a joke,” Tuberville said in response to the residency challenge.
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