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Michael Hart
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Republican Party

Elections and appointments
Last election

May 24, 2022

Personal
Birthplace
Baltimore, Md.
Religion
Methodist
Profession
Talk radio host
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Michael Hart (Republican Party) ran for election to the Alabama House of Representatives to represent District 49. He lost in the Republican primary on May 24, 2022.

Hart completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2022. Click here to read the survey answers.

Biography

Michael Hart was born in Baltimore, Maryland. His career experience includes working as a talk radio host. Hart has been affiliated with the Shelby County Alabama Executive Committee.[1]

Elections

2022

See also: Alabama House of Representatives elections, 2022

General election

General election for Alabama House of Representatives District 49

Incumbent Russell Bedsole won election in the general election for Alabama House of Representatives District 49 on November 8, 2022.

Candidate
%
Votes
✔
Image of Russell Bedsole
Russell Bedsole (R)
 
97.6
 
10,604
 Other/Write-in votes
 
2.4
 
266

Incumbents are bolded and underlined. The results have been certified. Source

Total votes: 10,870
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Republican primary election

Republican primary for Alabama House of Representatives District 49

Incumbent Russell Bedsole defeated Michael Hart in the Republican primary for Alabama House of Representatives District 49 on May 24, 2022.

Candidate
%
Votes
✔
Image of Russell Bedsole
Russell Bedsole
 
72.9
 
4,492
Image of Michael Hart
Michael Hart Candidate Connection
 
27.1
 
1,670

Incumbents are bolded and underlined. The results have been certified. Source

Total votes: 6,162
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Campaign themes

2022

Ballotpedia survey responses

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Candidate Connection

Michael Hart completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2022. The survey questions appear in bold and are followed by Hart's responses. Candidates are asked three required questions for this survey, but they may answer additional optional questions as well.

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I was the host of the conservative talk radio program that bore my name. For the better part of a decade I have covered both Alabama and national politics. During that time I have seen firsthand the problems the plague the state of Alabama.
  • I’m a strong proponent for the second amendment and constitutional carry
  • The dismal education system in the state of Alabama must be one of our top priorities
  • We must preserve the right of the states to function freely without unnecessary federal intervention
Liberty and our freedom to carry firearms in a reasonable matter without the need for permitting these weapons

Education in the state of Alabama.

Personal freedoms involving school choice, healthcare, excessive government spending and regulation
Christ the Lord is the obvious first choice. In politics it’s a toss up between Ronald Reagan and Jack Kennedy. Both men understood that government is frail, corrupt at times and cannot possibly provide all the answers
The 5000 year leap and The Law by Frederic Bastiat
Honestly, integrity, humbleness, transparency and accessibility
Polished speaker and debater, I’m tenacious, open minded and unflappable
To fully represent the concerns and needs citizens of the district to the House body
He helped make Alabama better for everyone
The US withdrawal from Vietnam. I was about 12 years old. I can remember my parents talking about it.
As a carpenters apprentice. About two years
Unknown America… Myths and Little Known Oddities about the Greatest Nation of Earth. Because I wrote it.

Other than that Atlas Shrugged. Because Rand was right
I’m m impatient with poorly thought out ideas and policies
The Governor should heed the wishes of the majority in the Legislature unless a very compelling case can be made against those wishes.
Educating our children for the jobs in the coming years and decades while eliminating underperforming teaching school boards.
The main drawback is a lack of checks and balances. The main benefit is a Legislature that is able to act more swiftly.
It could be but it’s not an absolute. Especially if that is the only experience a Legislator has to drawn from. I believe it’s more essential to have practical worldly including in business, religious and organizational affairs
Coalition building is fundamental to Democratic Government
Based upon geographical issues and not merely drawing districts along lines of race. I personally was a victim of redistricting. Many of my neighbors are no longer in my district.
Education, ways and means education committee, constitution, campaigns and elections, transportation, utilities and infrastructure
No
Possibly. Maybe Governor but I do not envision any office outside the state level
Stories of people suffering from unresolved pain and seizures from Cancer, epilepsy and accidents
A blind man walks in to a store. Picks up his seeing eye dog and swings it over his head. Clerk asks him “Can I help you?”

Blind man responds “No thanks I’m just looking around”
Oversee the excessive use but not directly grant these powers
Compromise is foundational in Democratic government

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Alabama House of Representatives District 49
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    Footnotes

    1. ↑ Information submitted to Ballotpedia through the Candidate Connection survey on February 22, 2022


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