Where does one begin with the fraud and corruption of Brian Kemp?
Rivian already had a spot picked out near Savannah, with access to rail, the ports and the infrastructure.
Somehow they decided to move their facility to 2000 acres of farm land, not near anything, that was owned by the chairman of the local Joint Development Authority. Sold the land for $22,000,000.
Land sits on an aquifer.
Rivian sold snake oil to a corrupt group of politicians. Its trucks are beyond useless and very expensive.
The original CEO resigned his position when the first factory, in Illinois, failed to meet its target of 1200 trucks.
Rivian dazzled Kemp and his crew with the promise of 7500 jobs at the plant and another 7500 in peripheral business.
Rivian pushed making 400k trucks a year. Kia makes about 340k vehicles a year at its plant in West Point, Ga employing 2700 people. Someone ain’t telling the truth.
With the Post-9/11 banking laws it wouldn’t be too hard to see where $22,000,00 went and who it was divvied out to.
Kemp is from that area. Probably very friendly with the guy that sold the land. Could make one wonder.
Kemp is doing his level best to destroy this state. That’s why i didn’t vote for him. If you look at what he’s doing and what Abrams wanted to do, other than guns(which he does reluctantly) there is no difference. They both want to throw the state to liberals.
Right now, the state of Georgia….NOT RIVIAN….is appealing a court ruling over who has the authority to give away $702,000,000 in property tax abatement. The state is going against its own citizens who won the case. That should tell you everything.
The $1,500,000,000 that Rivian is/was supposed to get actually pales in comparison to the $1,500,000,000 Hollywood gets EVERY year. There was a question on last years primary ballot about the giveaway. I don’t know anyone that wants Hollywood in Georgia, the liberals that came with it or the money being spent. Yet I’ve not heard the results of that ballot question. I’m betting all the liberals in Atlanta and Dekalb voted for it. Not many others.
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I know that one measure failed to advance in this year’s Georgia assembly.
“Supporters of Georgia’s music industry entered this year’s General Assembly session optimistic lawmakers would renew state tax incentives to lure music producers and create a state office dedicated to promoting the industry.
But after a single committee hearing, nothing happened. The House Creative Arts & Entertainment Committee approved the measure to create a statewide music office. But it failed to reach the House floor for a vote, while the tax incentives bill didn’t even get a committee vote.”
https://capitol-beat.org/2023/04/push-to-grow-georgia-music-industry-fizzles-under-gold-dome/
There are other industries we can encourage to expand in Georgia rather that the ones that bring in more progressives in addition to costing Georgian’s tax dollars in support.