Republican gubernatorial candidate Ken McFeeters joins the Heart of Dixie Podcast

Republican gubernatorial candidate Ken McFeeters recently joined the Heart of Dixe Podcast to discuss his campaign for governor and the issues that he feels are confronting the state of Alabama moving forward.

"There's three things that I'm really concerned with running for governor. It's farming, education, education, and medicine," McFeeters said. "Farming is the only way we can have independence."

McFeeters discussed how he is concerned that Alabama has become reliant on other states for things like milk, cheese, produce, beef, eggs, and more because of fewer farmers in the state and those farmers that we do have specializing in fewer and fewer crops."

"I want to get us to be able to feed ourselves, which is independence," said McFeeters,

McFeeters is concerned that Alabama schools have become indoctrination hubs and not places that teach American values and the skills needed to get high paying jobs in the real world.

"I want our kids to be educated," said McFeeters. "I want to be able to fast track veterans who've had one or two terms being in the military. Give them a very simple fast track teaching certificate that doesn't cost a lot of money. Get them in the classrooms. If we can do that, we can turn education around by teaching values, discipline, and virtues in our school. We can start teaching kids next year or the year after."

McFeeters is highly skeptical of the COVID vaccination and the current health industry, which is increasingly dominated by big pharmaceutical companies.

"And medicine, I mean, medicine, the doctors, it it's unbelievable the garbage that people are ingesting in their body," said McFeeters. "But medicine's now is the number tihree killer in the United States. Doctors are prescribing amphetamines to 10 year olds that have ADHD. And lifetime addiction of amines when you're 10 years old. They're giving statins to elderly patients that's destroying their minds and it's insane."

"How do you become a doctor?" continued McFeeters, "Our schools are set up for compliance, if you comply and then you regurgitate what you've been told, you will get into medical school if you really excel at that. The people in medical schools did not stand up for us. Our doctors did not stand up for us during the pandemic because they don't have any leaders in there. Our educational system is not producing leaders and doctors are taking the best people that were educated in our educational system not leaders, compliers. That's why no one - none of the doctors stood up. We got to turn around medicine."

McFeeters said that as the cost of healthcare has increased the quality of healthcare has not kept up

"What in 1972 with inflation adjusted dollars we were spending $2,000 per person. Now we're spending $14,000 per person. and people are unhealthy," said McFeeters. "It's a money-making business now. It's not about healing. It's about treating. If you treat someone, you make money. If you heal them, you lose money."

McFeeters warned that large international conglomerates are taking control of the food industry like they took over the pharmaceutical industry.

"They're by design destroying the food industry," said McFeeters. "They've destroyed the small farmers, the family farm by design. These people when they control food, they control you. The only way Alabama can remain independent and weather something that's going to happen. It's inevitable. It's just a question of when. Maybe a thousand years from now, but it's going to happen." "You have to be able to feed yourself."

McFeeters also discussed the growing proliferation of surveillance cameras as a policing tool.

"I do not like the surveillance state," McFeeters said. "I don't like surveillance cameras. I'm particularly hate that they federally mandated this I think in 2026 that all cars are going to have a computer on them that track your every move: how fast you go. how quick you stop, how fast you accelerate, when you're speeding, when you're not speeding, and shares that data with insurance companies. I don't agree with any of that. I don't like the cameras in the neighborhoods. I don't agree with those at all."

McFeeters said that a lot of the problems that state is experiencing in its inner cities can be traced back to education. He also blamed the entertainments industry.

"The cops really have a hard time right now," said McFeeters. "The inner ciy schools aren't teaching our inner city kids, and they're not teaching any kids, you know, and our our entertainment industry and music industry. They're bombarding the kids with bad examples and getting them to the thug life and, you know, spank all the hoes and all that. It's just it's insane. And it's creating this violence that the officers have to deal with. I'm not saying this kid was or whatever, but I mean and then also that you know, you see that the cop can never do right. I mean, the disrespect that kids are giving the cops these days boggles the mind. There's absolutely no discipline in our children these days. And the cops are the ones that have to deal with this. And that's not easy."

McFeeters faces Senator Tommy Tuberville (R-Alabama) in the Republican primary. The GOP nominee will then have to face the Democratic nominee in the general election next year. Chad "Chig" Martin and Rev. Will Boyd are the declared Democratic candidates for Governor.

The Republican primary is on May 19, 2026.

The Heart of Dixie Podcast is cohosted by Alabama Gazette Lead Reporter and Content Manager Brandon Moseley and Baldwin County Attorney Harry Still III,