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April 25, 2023
REP. SCOTT STADTHAGEN FILES “ALABAMA PROPERTY PROTECTION ACT” TO PREVENT CHINESE OWNERSHIP OF ALABAMA PROPERTY
Rep. Scott Stadthagen (R-Hartselle), Majority Leader of the Alabama House of Representatives, has filed the “Alabama Property Protection Act,” HB379, which would prevent Chinese ownership of property in the State of Alabama.
“I don’t believe we should allow buyers from communist China to purchase Alabama land and resources to use for their purposes,” Stadthagen said. “Our agricultural and manufacturing resources are critical to the success of our state and our nation. We are also home to multiple military installations and soon be home to Space Command. This bill ensures that those facilities, those resources and those installations will not be neighbors with the CCP.”
The bill is similar to the “Not one More Inch or Acre” legislation that has been introduced by Senator Katie Britt (R-Alabama) and Senator Tom Cotton (R-Arkansas).
“Senator Britt is tackling this issue on the federal level but we need an Alabama solution as well. That is what this legislation does. It allows us to protect property within the boundaries of our state,” Stadthagen explained.
The National Association of Realtors recently released a report showing that Chinese buyers purchased $6.1 billion of American real estate in the time period from April, 2021 and March, 2022.
“This is an issue we need to address now. There is no reason to wait until we have a major problem before us to address it,” Stadthagen explained. “This is something that Alabamians want and something our state needs. I believe this bill will have strong bipartisan support.”
The legislation will be heard before a House committee before consideration by the entire body.
Stadthagen represents District 9 in the Alabama House of Representatives and also serves as the House Majority Leader, a position he was elected to by his fellow Republican legislators. He is currently serving his second term in the Alabama legislature.
April 4, 2023
House Majority Leader Announces Launch of “In Session” Podcast
Alabama House Majority Leader Scott Stadthagen, R-Hartselle, announced that the Alabama Republican House Caucus has released a new episodic podcast, “In Session: Conversations with Alabama’s Republican Legislators,” featuring conversations between Stadthagen and Republican members of the Alabama House of Representatives.
“Each episode of the podcast spotlights a different Republican member of the Alabama Legislature,” Stadthagen explained. “This is an opportunity for Alabamians to get to know more about each member, as a person. We talk about a variety of subjects ranging from the features of individual districts to hobbies and nicknames. This is a unique project that we have undertaken but I believe it is a good way to help connect elected officials with the people we represent.”
The finale of each episode features a segment that Stadthagen refers to as “Mystery Questions.” Each member randomly draws three questions from a bowl. The questions range “from light-hearted to inquisitive,” he said. “The mystery questions are one of my favorite parts of the podcast. You really get to know someone when you ask them a ‘would you rather question’ or find out what the last book they read was. It’s always exciting to open the questions that members draw from the mystery questions bowl and unveil the question,” Stadthagen said. “It’s really a lot of fun and everyone has seemed to enjoy it so far.”
The first episode features an interview with Alabama Speaker of the House Nathaniel Ledbetter, R-Rainsville. You can listen to the episode on your favorite podcast platform or at https://apple.co/40RiNQP
August 25, 2022
Our Country Will Regret the Biden Student Loan Forgiveness Program
I wasn’t raised in a household with a lot of money. In fact, I was raised by a single mother. I don’t want any sympathy for that.
My mom is the hardest working woman I have ever met and she instilled work ethic in me in the same way she did other values she wanted me to learn. She taught by example. Living in her household, I learned that nothing is free, work is hard, you get what you earn, life is not fair and you pay your bills.
I took those lessons with me to the University of West Alabama, where I signed my name on loan agreements for student aid to help finance the tuition costs that were not covered by my football scholarship.
When I graduated, I went to work and I paid that student loan bill each month just as I paid my monthly cell phone bill, rent payment, car payment and car insurance. Those loans were mine. I signed for them. I took the money. I deposited it into my account, and I spent it. It was my obligation to pay it back in full and that is exactly what I did. It wasn’t easy and I would certainly have rather spent that money on something else, something more fun, but I knew right from wrong. My mother made sure of that.
Now, President Biden wants to “forgive” student loan debt to make life easier on adults who don’t want to fulfill the obligations they made when they applied for, accepted and spent their student loans. The economic calamity associated with Biden’s decision is obvious but the impact that this “forgiveness” program will have on the future of this nation can not be calculated in dollars.
Biden is sending the message to Americans that your word does not have to mean anything. Your signature on a legal loan document can be ignored and then “forgiven.” You don’t have to work hard and do without luxury items until your bills are paid anymore. Take that money you were supposed to spend on your student loan payment and go pick up the latest iPhone instead. Treat yourself to a nice dinner or a vacation you didn’t think you could afford. Then just sit still and wait for the government to step in and “forgive” your debts.
Biden is sending a message to the waitress working two jobs and saving money for her tuition that her hard work means nothing. She should have just taken out loans that she knew she could not afford and then waited for Biden’s magic pen to “forgive” that debt.
Biden is also sending a message to the men and women who chose the military as a way to finance their college aspirations that their sacrifice to this nation was not really worth anything at all. After all, the civilians who didn’t choose the military path are having their debt “forgiven.” How will we ever forgive the debt we owe those who have volunteered to fight for this nation and to defend us against our enemies with the promise of a college education in return? Biden does not care.
People are taught by example and our nation’s young people are being taught that hard work doesn’t matter. Sacrifice isn’t important. Loans don’t really have to be paid back. Biden is teaching the next generation to do what they want, borrow money to pay for it and then wait for “forgiveness.”
May God forgive us all for what is happening to this country.
PAID FOR BY THE SCOTT STADTHAGEN CAMPAIGN STATE REPRESENTATIVE DISTRICT 9 CAMPAIGN, P.O. BOX 1512 HARTSELLE AL 35640
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