Alabama’s Tuberville Calls on ‘Sore Loser’ Coloradoans to Give Up Space Command HQ – By Jacqueline Feldscher (Defense One) / May 19, 2022
Colorado politicians, however, are not giving up.
“Sore loser syndrome” is preventing the nation’s space mission from “moving forward,” Sen. Tommy Tuberville, R-Ala., wrote in a letter to the leaders of the Senate Armed Services Committee on Wednesday, hoping to keep alive the controversial Trump administration decision to move U.S. Space Command headquarters to his state.
In the final days of the Trump administration, Air Force officials announced that the headquarters would move from Colorado Springs to Huntsville, Ala., and the January 2021 decision has faced scrutiny ever since. Lawmakers from Colorado immediately alleged that President Donald Trump improperly influenced the decision, something the former president seemed to own up to last August, when he said he “single-handedly said let’s go to Alabama.”
But now that investigations by the Pentagon’s inspector general and the Government Accountability Office have concluded, Tuberville—one of six senators who sought to invalidate the 2020 presidential election—is urging his colleagues to move on and begin moving the military’s space architecture to Redstone Arsenal in Huntsville, Ala.
