Kemp's Secret Weapon in Georgia Race Against Abrams: $5 Billion in Covid Funds

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

(Bloomberg) -- Georgia Governor Brian Kemp has a financial secret weapon in his rematch with Stacey Abrams: control of nearly $5 billion in Covid stimulus money sent to the state by Democrats in Washington.

As the closely watched race comes down to the wire, Kemp has been doling out that money with maximum publicity across Georgia while blasting the fiscal profligacy of President Joe Biden and the congressional Democrats who provided it.

The money has funded tax breaks and refunds, rural broadband and urban sidewalks, small businesses and arts organizations, water and sewer projects, police, housing, cash outlays for the state’s poorest and property tax relief for its richest.

Governors have until the end of next year to spend their share of the $1.9 trillion American Rescue Plan money. Kemp has spent almost all of Georgia’s in his re-election campaign year.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/markets/kemp-s-secret-weapon-in-georgia-race-against-abrams-5-billion-in-covid-funds/ar-AA13ELgN

He sounds like his neighbor to the south DeSantis.

[Bayard]

1. "Found money"

“Everybody got a check from the governor this year,” UGA’s Bullock said. “It was found money. What’s not to like?”

People think he's helping them, when in fact, he's buying their votes.

Covid money should have gone here:

"For Democrats, a final insult came in September, after a hospital in downtown Atlanta announced its closing.
The Atlanta Medical Center is one of two Atlanta hospitals that are both Level 1 trauma centers and provide care for low-income, uninsured and underinsured residents. Its closing was widely seen as a disaster."

[jimfields33]

2. California sent Checks too. I think all states should.