Bill Rice, Jr.: 28-04-2026, 
My friend Dr. Stewart Tankersley is challenging the “Big Mules” of the political establishment and calling out politicians who were silent during the Covid crimes.
Several months ago, I wrote a tongue-in-cheek column, mentioning that I was considering running for U.S. Senate – not to advance five or six of the usual “issues,” but simply to highlight the “crimes against humanity” that occurred in Covid.
While this effort never took flight (as I received no donations to cover the qualifying fee), it turns out that a friend of mine is running for a significant state office, Alabama Lt. Governor. A central part of Dr. Stewart Tankersley’s campaign is his effort to hold policy-makers responsible for the “worst catastrophe in our nation’s history.”
As Dr. Tankersley told me in a recent phone conversation, as far as he knows his race is one of the few in the nation where a candidate for state-wide office refuses to forget the harms caused by Covid.
As Alabama’s Lt. Governor, Dr. Tankersley will possess – and, he says, use – a “bully pulpit” which, he hopes allows him to create a grassroots-movement that will result in the banning of the Covid vaccines and block any efforts to produce more “draconian” and unnecessary public health responses.
Dr. Tankersley is running against six other candidates in the primary field. According to Stewart, none of the two perceived front-runners, including the current Secretary of State, have particularly strong name identification.