By Ruth Serven Smith
al.com
(TNS)
June 8 — U.S. Sen. Tommy Tuberville has threatened to file a lawsuit against an Alabama news outlet after a journalist posted personal information gathered from his tax records.
Tuberville, who is running for governor, sent a cease and desist letter to the Lagniappe Daily on June 6.
Tuberville’s lawyers said the outlet improperly accessed and published Tuberville’s confidential information in a June 5 article.
They asked the publication to take down the article and said Tuberville may take additional legal action if the outlet does not comply.
The outlet reported on tax returns Tuberville’s campaign provided to the state GOP as he fights a challenge to his candidacy.
Rob Holbert, co-publisher of Lagniappe, told AL.com his newsroom published the redacted returns “because we believed they are pertinent to the ongoing stories about whether he has lived in Alabama the required amount of time to meet the necessary residency requirement to run for governor and he was offering them as proof of such.”
Alabama requires candidates for governor to be a “resident citizen” for seven years.
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Tuberville has faced years of questions about where he actually lives and produced tax returns as part of an effort to show he began living in the state in 2018.
A spokesman for Tuberville, Jon Gray, said he finished moving into his house in Auburn in 2019 and switched his driver’s license and voter’s registration that year.
Tuberville also spends time in Washington, D.C. and has a beach house in Florida.
Holbert said Tuberville’s campaign voluntarily sent the returns to the state GOP and his political opponent, Ken McFeeters, and did not complain when the outlet first posted the redacted returns on June 2.
Tuberville’s campaign told AL.com that the documents were shared with parties relevant to challenge and should not have become public.
“I do not agree that this rises to the level of public interest such that somebody’s and some missus’ personal private tax data becomes the information of public,” Gray said.
He said the campaign will continue to work on resolving the challenge to Tuberville’s candidacy and preparing for a possible term as governor.
“We are 1,000% confident that Tommy Tuberville has been a resident in the state of Alabama,” Gray said.
Photo caption: Sen. Tommy Tuberville addresses supporters after winning the Republican primary for governor of Alabama on May 19, 2026.
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