Representative Mack Butler joins the Brandon and Christopher Show Podcast

State Representative Mack Butler (R-Rainbow City) recently joined the Brandon and Christopher Show Podcast (BCS) to discuss the 2025 Alabama regular legislative session that ended earlier this month.

"It was a good session I think we did accomplish a lot," said Rep. Butler. "There was a meltdown in the Senate once again on the last day like we had previously; but we did achieve a lot. We got the back the Blue bill done."

Butler said that the filibuster on the last day in the Senate killed Governor Kay Ivey's legislation that would have given scholarships to the children of law enforcement officers.

"We passed in the House with plenty of time; but for whatever reason on the last day in the Senate it did not materialize." Butler continued.

"I had a couple of bills that were up there for a long time," that did not pass Rep. Butler said.

The first of those was to prevent recidivism by sexual predators by requiring them to submit to lie detectors as a condition of their parole. Butler said that that bill would have required sexual predators to submit to lie detectors as a condition of their parole.

Butler is the sponsor of the bill preventing the schools from indoctrinating elementary school children in LGBTQ+ lifestyles and propaganda. His second bill would have expanded that to protect middle school and high school public school students from indoctrination.

"We were told it would pass this year and it did not," said Butler. "I think it would have passed if we had not had the filibuster that we had. That bill dealt with an expansion of the existing bill that we have that forbids the discussion of gender ideology and sexual orientation."

Butler said that the "indoctrination of children" remains a problem in Alabama's public schools. They are focused on the, "sexualization of children. We are trying to focus on academics."

Butler was optimistic that something can be done about the continuing problems with a handful of members shutting down the Alabama Senate for business.

"Our rules are different in the House than in the Senate," Rep. Butler said. "In the House you cannot filibuster like that all day."

Butler said that he expected that the Senate will change the rules next session as a result of that so that one member and not shut the whole Senatre down

The Brandon and Christopher Shiow podcast is cohosted by Alabama Gazette Lead Reporter and Content Manager Brandon Moseley and Alabama Political Contributor Publisher Christopher Peeks.