MAGA senator melts down when confronted about million-dollar promise: ‘Get him out’

A MAGA senator running for governor had a reporter escorted out of a campaign dinner after being pressed about a pricey old promise.Sen. Tommy Tuberville (R-AL) told staffers "Get him out" on Tuesday night when a Lagniappe reporter asked about his 2020 pledge to donate his congressional salary to Alabama veterans and their families, the Mobile outlet reported. Sheriff's deputies then escorted the reporter from the event.Tuberville, the GOP candidate for governor, has spent October crisscrossing the state and was hosting a meet-and-greet dinner at Moe's Original BBQ. The Mobile County GOP had billed the gathering as open to the public, and Tuberville has regularly fielded reporters' questions before such events. Lagniappe said it had also been left off the media invite list for a recent Tuberville appearance in Daphne, Alabama.While the reporter waited to speak with the senator, press secretary Jonathan Eberle stepped in to shut it down."We're not...