{"id":1597989,"date":"2022-08-10T01:18:17","date_gmt":"2022-08-10T05:18:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1597989"},"modified":"2022-08-10T01:18:26","modified_gmt":"2022-08-10T05:18:26","slug":"abrams-in-georgia-policy-speech-goes-after-kemps-rural-base","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/abrams-in-georgia-policy-speech-goes-after-kemps-rural-base\/","title":{"rendered":"Abrams in Georgia Policy Speech Goes After Kemp\u2019s Rural Base"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">20<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fabrams-in-georgia-policy-speech-goes-after-kemps-rural-base%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1597989&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/t-stacey-abrams\">Stacey Abrams<\/a>, whose aspirations to the Georgia governor\u2019s mansion and beyond have gained national attention, laid out her plans Tuesday night to boost the state\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/t-economy\">economy<\/a> without raising taxes.<\/p>\n<p>She targeted her opponent Brian Kemp\u2019s base voters\u2014those in rural areas\u2014with proposals specifically tailored to their needs. They include more support for small businesses, a Medicaid expansion allowing rural hospitals to reopen, and a promise to deliver free technical education.<\/p>\n<p>One way she hopes to pay for this is legalized sports betting and casino gambling in Georgia.<\/p>\n<p>She\u2019s not betting the entire program on that. Expanding Medicaid for the first three years costs the state nothing, said Charles Bullock, a political science professor at the University of Georgia, and after that, only about 10 percent.<\/p>\n<p>That influx of money\u2014$3.5 billion a year\u2014will prop up shaky small-town hospitals, allow closed ones to open, and restore health care access to areas where hospitals are currently few and far between, Abrams said.<\/p>\n<p>She excoriated Kemp repeatedly for the weaknesses she cited in the state\u2019s economy, including refusing to spend money the federal government granted the states and instead wanting to use it for tax rebates.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/img.theepochtimes.com\/assets\/uploads\/2021\/11\/16\/Georgia-governor-Brian-Kemp-speaks-at-the-new-Mason-mega-rail-terminal-at-the-port-in-Savannah-Georgia-on-Nov.-12-2021-1200x800.jpg\"><\/a> Georgia\u2019s Governor Brian Kemp speaks at the new Mason Mega Rail Terminal at the port in Savannah, Georgia, on Nov. 12, 2021. (Jackson Elliott\/The Epoch Times) <\/p>\n<p>Abrams repeatedly used the word \u201cextreme\u201d to describe Kemp\u2019s tenure in office and warned of the dire consequences the state\u2019s tough abortion laws and permissive gun laws will have in encouraging businesses here to leave the state and discourage others from coming here at all.<\/p>\n<p> Hot-Button Issues <\/p>\n<p>Abrams didn\u2019t hesitate to touch on hot-button issues that have nothing to do with the economy, like the Florida shooting of Trayvon Martin and the Jim Crow laws of the South\u2019s past.<\/p>\n<p>She proposed raises averaging<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Stacey Abrams, whose aspirations to the Georgia governor\u2019s mansion and beyond have gained national attention, laid out her plans Tuesday night to boost the state\u2019s economy without raising taxes. She targeted her opponent Brian Kemp\u2019s base voters\u2014those in rural areas\u2014with proposals specifically tailored to their needs. They include more support for small businesses, a Medicaid [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1117,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1597989","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1597989","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1117"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1597989"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1597989\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1597989"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1597989"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1597989"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}