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Five days after Georgias stay-at-home order expired, setting gyms, restaurants, hair and nail salons and other businesses on a quick course to reopen, a lobbyist for the states chamber of commerce emailed top aides to Brian Kemp, the Republican governor, the Washington Post reports.
The email correspondence, released through a public records request, shows how business networks and industry organizations helped write the rules of the pandemic response in some of the places that were the last to impose restrictions and the first to ease them. It also sheds light on the thinking of governors who have pledged not to reverse course on reopening, even as coronavirus cases spike in their states.
https://politicalwire.com/2020/07/09/georgia-let-lobbyists-write-rules-to-reopen/
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(16,888 posts)Are we talking about lobbbyists, Georgia governors, or RepubliCons?