As a public service to our followers, Huntsville South submitted questions to candidates for State House District 20.

Mr. Lomax chose not to respond to Huntsville South’s request. He was sent a hard copy to his P.O. Box in Montgomery and to an address in Huntsville. Mr. Lomax confirmed receipt of the questions by email and indicated he would review them, but did not provide answers.

Although there is no Democratic primary for this seat, in the interest of fairness Huntsville South sent a digital copy of the questions to the email address listed on Mr. Linderholm’s campaign website. He did not respond.

Mr. Brooks was the only candidate who responded. You can read his questions and answers below.

• Huntsville South House District 20 Republican primary questionnaire:

  
  What are your top five legislative priorities for the next two years?
  Mo Brooks answer:
  #1 Roads & Traffic.   Mo Brooks has walked 300 miles going door to door during this election:  traveling over roads, seeing how people live, facing the same traffic congestion HD 20 citizens face, learning first-hand what citizens say about challenges facing us.
  Quite frankly, Huntsville’s road infrastructure has fallen far behind Huntsville’s population growth.  Traffic gets worse daily.  Wreck and injury risks worsen daily.  Huntsville-area quality of life declines as traffic congestion and gridlock increase.  Area legislators must work with our next governor, area mayors, and county commissioners to build road improvements the Huntsville area desperately needs.  
  Mo Brooks has built, helped build, partnered to build, or was instrumental in building SEVEN parkway overpasses, I-565, a right north-bound turn lane at Airport and the Parkway, among others.
  No question:  roads and traffic congestion are at or near #1 on the minds of House District 20 voters.
  Mo Brooks has delivered road improvements in the past and, if elected, will do it again.
  Continuing to do little or nothing is not an option.
  

• #2 Better Education.  Whether by school choice, home schooling, or government-run schools, education has been, should be, and will continue to be at or near the top of any legislative session list.
  Education has always been of paramount importance in Mo Brooks’ family.  Mo’s mother, wife and two daughters have all been teachers in the government, private and home school systems.
  Mo Brooks supports fully funding the Choose Act, thereby empowering parents to decide how to best educate their child.
  Moral values must be taught in government schools.  There is no greater life teaching need than helping school children learn the difference between right and wrong.
  

• #3 Killing Bad Bills.  It is easy to pass feel-good bills.  All a legislator has to do is vote for the bad ones.  
  Mo Brooks is one of the few public servants willing to face the ire of Special Interest PACs, and others, if that is what it takes to kill bad bills.
  Mo Brooks has done it before and will do it again if elected.
  

• #4 Fighting Tax Increases.  The legislature’s FY 2026-27 spending and tax policies risk 2027 tax increase battles in 2027.  Mo Brooks will do what he has consistently done in the past:  fight tax increases that undermine the family’s ability to take care of its own.
  

• #5 Better Border Security.  Contrary to popular opinion and legislators’ excuses, Alabama has the absolute power to peacefully end Alabama’s illegal alien problem by making it too costly to hire illegal foreign labor.  
  The first step is ending and not expanding taxpayer subsidies and job opportunities that entice illegal aliens to Alabama.
  The second step is changing the economic dynamics so that employers will hire and want to pay Alabama citizens what their skills are worth.
  If the public will elect enough like-minded legislators, Mo Brooks’ policies will end Alabama’s illegal alien problem.
  In sum, we must stop offering incentives for illegal aliens to come to Alabama

• Do you support prohibiting predatory lending in the state of Alabama.
  Mo Brooks Answer:  Yes.
  

• Do you support a statewide vote on a lottery?  If Alabama has a Lottery, what would you propose to do with lottery proceeds?
  Mo Brooks Answer:  Mo Brooks questions how a lottery – a gambling enterprise operated for the primary purpose of encouraging citizens to lose money they need to take care of their families – is a proper function of Alabama’s state government.
  Notwithstanding this reservation about whether the operation of a gambling enterprise is a proper function of government, Mo Brooks will consider any lottery bill placed before him.  But it better be a perfect or near-perfect bill to merit much consideration.
  If a lottery bill passes, it is an open question whether it is a net increase or decreases to government revenues.  Certainly lottery revenues, standing alone and insulated from the harmful economic effects of a lottery, increase government revenues.  
  However it is an open question about how much lottery revenues are offset by the economically depressing effects a lottery has on other economic activity (as families’ discretionary spending is diverted to the lottery and away from elsewhere).
  Notwithstanding the risk that lotteries have a depressing effect on overall economic activity and may actually produce a net loss in government income, Mo Brooks prefers lottery proceeds be spent, first, on tax cuts for Alabama citizens (elimination of the sales tax on groceries, or elimination or cuts to the income tax come to mind), or, second, on state capital improvement projects like roads.
  

• With Huntsville City Schools still under a Department of Justice Desegregation order, with only 3 or 7 Green factor met in 11 years and millions of taxpayer dollars spent, how do you see yourself as a state legislator helping to move this forward.
  Mo Brooks Answer:  Huntsville City Schools’ desegregation order is one of the worst examples of masochism seen in Huntsville’s history.  Huntsville City Schools has a long and sordid history of agreeing to desegregation orders, not fighting them.  As a consequence, desegregation order damage is largely self-inflicted.
  The first step to recovery is for Huntsville City Schools to develop the courage and guts to fight for itself and what is right.  No more meek and mild surrenders that cost taxpayers millions while simultaneously depressing our childrens’ education achievements.
  The second step is a prerequisite for the second step:  Huntsville citizens must be involved enough in school system politics to run for the school board and/or vote for good candidates, not bad ones.
  No legislator can fix the Huntsville City Schools’ desegregation order damage until the school board first agrees it has a self-inflicted problem and is willing to try to fix it.
  Huntsville City Schools must stop thinking like drug addicts looking for their next fix and should, instead, be steeling themselves to rid themselves of their addiction.
  

• Do you support a bill calling for paper ballots and hand counting for all Alabama elections?
  Mo Brooks Answer:  Absolutely not because hand-counting ballots causes far more voter fraud than it stops.
  There are simply too many polling officials who are willing to miscount ballots and steal votes for “their cause”.
  A specific example: in 1984, DeKalb County, Alabama citizens cast ballots that were hand-counted.  One of the hotly contested local races was for Superintendent of Education.  The Republican candidate for superintendent beat the Democrat candidate for superintendent . . . with the exception of one box, where the Democrat candidate for superintendent got more votes than the Republican candidate, plus Ronald Reagan for president, plus Walter Mondale for president, all combined!
  Anyone who knows anything about election history knows that the chances of a down-ballot candidate getting more votes that both parties’ presidential candidates plus the opposition candidate all put together borders on or is statistically impossible.
  The problem is that the ballots were hand-counted by persons willing to steal elections . . . and a Democrat Circuit Court judge denied the Republican candidate’s discretionary motion to reopen the doubtful voting box to have a recount.
  A better solution is for Alabama to:
  Use voting machines to count paper ballot tallies, and
  Have random audits of machine vote printouts versus hand counts to determine whether the machine counts are accurate, and
  Empower all candidates, as a matter of right, to demand and receive a recount of any and all voting machine counts as circumstances dictate.
  

• In accordance with Act 2026-604, the state portion of sales and use taxes on food will be suspended from May 1, 2026, through June 30, 2026.  If elected, will you support legislation to make this tax suspension permanent.
  Mo Brooks Answer:  Yes.
  As an aside, the reason the sales and use taxes on food was suspended for JUST May and June is purely “incumbent protection” power politics.  May and June “just happen” to be the two months in which incumbent Republican legislators face Republican primaries and run-offs.
  If the “Republican” legislative leadership was serious about ending sale and use taxes on food, they would “just do it!”