Grace Heim

Comms @ALHouseGOP | Former @plainsmansports | I love American pastimes, politics, and pop culture | Opinions are my own

[nicole ruiz @nwilliams030]

" Every single day of my childhood, my parents asked the same question at dinner. Not “What did you learn?” but “Who did you serve?” "

Excellent piece by Alex Sasse, @BenSasse 's eldest daughter, one what she learned from her father

[nicole ruiz @nwilliams030]

@BenSasse "Feed your kids emotional and intellectual broccoli. They will come to crave it."

https://t.co/HfsFAEnJ9Z

[Nathaniel Ledbetter @RepLedbetter]

HUGE congrats to Rep. James Lomax.

[Alabama House GOP @ALHouseGOP]

🗳️ Today is Election Day, Alabama!

Every race on the ballot matters — from statewide offices to your local community. Find your polling place and get out there: https://t.co/SpTk4DEI95

#alpolitics #alabama #ElectionDay #VOTE

[Grace Heim @graceeheim]

Mom and I have a tradition of going to the polls together. We haven’t missed an election since I turned 18.

Elections belong to the people. Go vote!

[Nathaniel Ledbetter @RepLedbetter]

The Alabama House of Representatives has adjourned its Special Session and put a contingency plan in place if SCOTUS or a lower court lifts its injunction.

The moment we get relief, Alabama will be ready to act.

Full statement below:

“For the last five days, House Republicans have stood firm on the fact that our state’s current, court-imposed Congressional Map is nothing more than a racially gerrymandered disgrace that does not represent the conservative values held by Alabamians. We have fought back against insults and attacks on our character from the left, not by feeding into their rhetoric, but by sending a loud and clear message with our votes.

Our combined efforts have yielded real results. If Alabama’s unlawful injunction is lifted by SCOTUS or a lower court before the federal primary election deadline, the state now has a plan in place to revert to the Legislature’s 2023 map. This guarantees that the Second Congressional District – which was wrongfully handed to democrats on a silver platter by the courts – is flipped back to republican control while also putting the Seventh Congressional District in play.

As much as we would have preferred to draw a new map like our neighbors in Tennessee, the legal constraints created by Allen v. Milligan make that impossible today. Any other course of action would have all but guaranteed Alabama sends two Democrats to Congress at a time when control of the U.S. House could be decided by only a handful of seats – an outcome that our country cannot afford.

Alabama has done its part in helping President Trump maintain a republican Congress, and we will continue fighting to ensure that our elections are decided by Alabamians, not activist judges.”

[Gil Guerra @gildeguerra]

As I wrote for @thedispatch on toppling Maduro in October:

[Tim Alberta @TimAlberta]

Over the past decade, as I've occupied a front-row seat to observe the degradation of our government and the moral cowardice of its leaders, a question has always nagged at me: Do these people not care how they're going to be remembered?

Ben Sasse cared. You could tell -- both in conversation with him and watching from afar. It was apparent that he felt the weight of history judging him, posterity studying him, his children living with his name and his legacy.

And so, he acted accordingly. Does that mean he got everything right? Nope. None of us do. But at least he tried. At least he had a standard. At least he was honest -- with himself and with us. At least he could look his kids in the eye and know that for whatever the temptation to gain the world, he hadn't forfeited his soul.

Check out these tributes pouring in from across the ideological spectrum. How refreshing -- how dreadfully rare -- to see a political figure celebrated for their integrity, their honor, their steadfast virtue.

Ben Sasse aimed to be a good man. And so, he'll be remembered as a great man.

I'll be praying for him and his family this advent season. (And I, for one, will never read Isaiah 9 again without thinking of him! Now that's a legacy, @BenSasse.)

[Wes Rucker @wesruckerTBA]

Enjoyed reading this three-dimensional look at the Pavia situation.

[Grace Heim @graceeheim]

glad to be back (in better seats!)

[Patrick Bingham @PatrickABingham]

Hugh Freeze now falls to 0-5 in matchups against either Georgia or Alabama, becoming the first Auburn head coach to ever lose his first five matchups to the two rival schools.

[Wes Rucker @wesruckerTBA]

Full disclosure: I ***DO NOT*** believe anything fishy happened.

But this man and others have noted the way the line moved in that Tennessee-Arkansas game, and the way it was officiated.

The combination of those factors gives oxygen to the College Football Info Wars Brigade.

[Grace Heim @graceeheim]

idk what just happened, but you should not be able to call something you weren’t reviewing for!! makes no sense!!!

[Justin Ferguson @JFergusonAU]

they didn't even announce they were reviewing for targeting?

[Grace Heim @graceeheim]

@PatrickABingham can you please start your auburn opening drive tracker?

[Grace Heim @graceeheim]

@colereporter @NathanKing247 I’m experiencing major FOMO rn @PatrickABingham

[Josh Pate @JoshPateCFB]

"BULLYING WORKS" - MeeMaw

[Jeremy Roberts @JeremyRoberts12]

It’s amazing how things begin and turn into sacred traditions.

I believe it was 1997 Auburn Batting Helmet Day sponsored by Subway. I’m pretty sure we had to put all the stickers on the helmets in the marketing office.

Mike and Tom (an original Helmet Mafia cohort) got a helmet that day and kept wearing them back to every game and then got the nerve up to start leading cheers.

Fast forward almost 30 years and we honor Mike’s memory as a legendary Auburn figure. He got an upgraded helmet from that original plastic, but the spirit never waned.

Lots of great Auburn moments inside Plainsman Park were sparked by Mike’s energy.

War Eagle Forever.

[Emily Zanotti 🦝 @emzanotti]

Some much of the conservative pro-natalism stuff boils down to limiting women in how they can structure their lives, and yet, here we are, some of us with as many projects as kids. And what it boils down to is being serious about what you want out of life, having a good marriage with a lot of communication, and understanding that life will be constantly changing based on family needs, which is what you prioritize.

I’m writing more on this for @NCRegister today, because I did an hour interview with WSJ and most of it got left on the cutting room floor!

[ESPN @espn]

THE MOMENT J.J. SPAUN WON THE U.S. OPEN 👏

(via @usopengolf)