Jared Budlong

I'm a long-time resident who knows there is more to Alabama than the rest of the country and world sees in the news. I have a wife (Elisha) and three sons (Josiah, Rhys, and Ian) and live in Daphne.

I'm a project manager for a marketing agency who understands what it takes to help multiple teams of people (state departments) work together using their different expertise (fields of study and responsibility) to achieve a common goal ask of them by their client (the people of Alabama).

In 2021, our state officials voted to spend COVID relief funds to build new prisons. I started digging and found that those funds could be used to help offset lost revenue. More prisons = more revenue.

After looking into the prison system and organizations like the ACI, I realized I have spent the majority of my life with a gross misunderstanding of the history of Alabama, and the USA, at large.

That was the moment I knew I had to get involved. Running for state office came a little later with the help of Jasmine Sherman, who urged me to run NOW.