Two commitments for anyone asking Alabamians for their vote in 2026. They are separate, and they are specific. A candidate can sign one, both, or neither — and every answer is published here.
Sign the SB71 pledge Sign the data center pledge
Because they are separate questions, and combining them would let a candidate hide. Someone can believe Alabama should set its own environmental standards and disagree about who should pay for infrastructure serving large industrial power users — or the reverse.
Keeping them separate means a signature actually says something. So does a refusal.
No candidate will be listed as declining a pledge unless the campaign explicitly tells us no.
A pledge that disappears after an election is a press release. This one stays up, and the point of keeping it up is to compare it against the record later.
Roll call votes in Alabama are public. When someone who signed takes office and a covered bill comes to a vote, that vote will be added beside their name — whether it matches what they signed or not.
That cuts in every direction, including mine. I signed both of these. If I am elected and vote against what is written here, that will appear on this page under my own name.
Every candidate on Alabama’s 2026 ballot whose office has a role in either pledge was in scope — 204 people, across the Legislature, the Public Service Commission, and the Governor’s office. Judicial candidates are excluded, because judicial ethics restrict pledging on matters that may come before a court.
Only 32 of those 204 publish an email address that accepts mail. Most county and first-time candidates publish none at all — no campaign website, or a website with a contact form and no address behind it. Four more addresses bounced. Every one of the 32 was written to directly on 8 September 2026.
Because that is not everyone, the same two questions also went to the chair of every county party committee in Alabama that publishes a working address — 124 chairs, in both parties — asking them to pass it to candidates in their county.
This page publishes answers, not silence. A candidate whose name is not here may have declined, or may simply never have received the question — and I cannot tell those two apart. So I do not report them as the same thing, and there is no “did not respond” column on this site.
| Name | Office sought | Date |
|---|---|---|
| Spencer Stone | Alabama Senate, District 16 | 2026-09-01 |
| Toni Kornegay Vaughn | Alabama House, District 45 | 2026-09-02 |
| Terri Osborne | Alabama House, District 96 | 2026-09-08 |