Ex-Food Critic Is Advising Tuberville On Pentagon Posts

The Washington Post reports:

When Sen. Tommy Tuberville (R-Ala.) wanted to stop a new Defense Department policy that helped ensure access to abortions for service members after the overturning of Roe v. Wade, the former college football coach sought advice from his top military aide, a former food critic.

“I explained all his options to him,” said Morgan Murphy, a Navy captain who once sold his own line of bacon products and who now serves as Tuberville’s national security adviser. The option the senator ultimately chose was to single-handedly stall the promotion of more than 200 senior U.S. military officers.

It was spicy dollop of political brinkmanship into a process that is often blandly nonpolitical. Sen. Tammy Duckworth (D-Ill.), a military veteran herself, said Tuberville was “holding the entire nation’s national security hostage for his own personal social agenda.”

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Tommy Tuberville is single-handedly stalling more than 200 Pentagon nominations.

Also, he is getting his military advice from a former food critic.https://t.co/d9cLJLW4xn

— Ben Terris (@bterris) May 26, 2023

He’s a captain in the Navy, a Vanity Fair alum, a performer of Gilbert and Sullivan, and the author of this humor book with an illustration of his likeness on the cover pic.twitter.com/8vDmBMPKC6

— Ben Terris (@bterris) May 26, 2023