Rick Rehm

Rick Rehm (born January 19, 1966) He served in the United States Army for four years before taking on a civilian work position at Fort Rucker near Enterprise, Alabama. Rehm was a frontline controller there for 25 years, and served as facility manager from 2014 to 2018.

Rehm's first foray into politics came after Dothan, Alabama, raised its sales tax to four cents on the dollar. Rehm volunteered to go door-to-door campaigning for the unseating of a city councilman involved with the decision, which was eventually successful.

Alabama House of Representatives Rehm, who had never considered running for public office, retired in 2022 and took a three-month cross-country RV trip. However, the chairman of the Alabama Republican Party, John Wahl, later recruited Rehm to run as the Republican Party's nominee for election to the Alabama House of Representatives' 85th district. as well as a 12-year incumbent. Grimsley received no major party opposition in 2022 until Rehm was nominated by the Republican Party in July, after the primary election season had concluded. Rehm claimed that "indoctrination" in schools was one of his primary motivations to run for office, Rehm's victory was one of only two seat flips in the Alabama Legislature in the 2022 elections.

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