John Wahl was born on 1986 and is an American political strategist and butterfly breeder who is the incumbent chair of the Alabama Republican Party, serving since 2021.
26 Facts About John Wahl
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John Wahl is a vice chair of the Republican National Committee, representing its southern region since 2023.
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John Wahl is the brother of Noah Wahl, a fellow political strategist and the former chair of the Limestone County Republican Party.
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John Wahl was the chair of Stop the Small Business Tax PAC, a political action committee in Athens, as well as a founding member of the Freedom Alliance PAC.
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Butterflies bred on John Wahl's farm have supplied various exhibits nationally, including the Huntsville Botanical Garden and the Bronx Zoo, with over 40,000 butterflies annually.
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John Wahl has served on the board of the International Butterfly Breeders Association.
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John Wahl's farm has been featured by various media outlets seeking to cover the niche industry of butterfly farming, including Mental Floss and the Answers in Genesis foundation.
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John Wahl describes the industry as one of the "most beautiful" job opportunities, which he contrasts with his work in politics.
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In 2010, John Wahl served as director of communications for Roy Moore's gubernatioral campaign.
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When Moore sought to regain his seat as Chief Justice of Alabama in 2012, John Wahl worked as the grassroots coordinator for that campaign.
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In 2019, John Wahl was elected as senior vice chairman of the party at the executive committee's winter meeting.
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John Wahl defeated Bill Harris from Autauga County for the seat.
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John Wahl was a member of Tommy Tuberville's transition team, as Tuberville was elected to the US Senate, representing Alabama, that year.
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When Terry Lathan announced that she would not seek another term as chair of the Alabama Republican Party, John Wahl ran to replace her in 2021, and was unopposed in seeking the seat.
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John Wahl said that, as party chair, he would focus on low taxes, secure borders and elections, as well as a strong military for his main agenda points.
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John Wahl was elected by acclamation at the party's winter meeting on February 27,2021.
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John Wahl managed the Republican Party's involvement in the 2022 Alabama elections, including a debate over congressional redistricting for the 2022 United States House of Representatives elections in Alabama.
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John Wahl has been an advocate for closed primaries, school choice, and adoption reform in Alabama.
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In fall 2022, the opinion column of journalist Kyle Whitmire published a series of stories reporting on John Wahl's Anabaptist extended family members, who objected to voter ID on religious grounds, including calling facial recognition programs "the mark of the beast".
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John Wahl has supported voter ID laws in his position as chair of the Alabama Republican Party.
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On October 3, Whitmire reported in his opinion column that, while voting in the 2022 elections, John Wahl had used a press secretary card as photo ID; Whitmire charged that John Wahl had created the ID himself under the direction of Jim Zeigler and the office of the State Auditor of Alabama.
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In January 2023, John Wahl was selected as a vice chair for the Republican National Committee, leading its southern division.
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John Wahl said that he was looking forward to working on a "fresh vision" for the Republican Party in the 2024 election cycle.
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John Wahl faced no opposition and was again elected by acclamation.
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In September 2023, John Wahl was profiled in a series of NPR articles highlighting the youngest Republican and Democratic state party chairs in the United States.
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John Wahl said that his goals for the future of the Alabama Republican Party would include attracting Black voters from Alabama's Black Belt region, as well as younger voters.