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Keisha Lance Bottoms is making household affordability and a proposed pause on new data centers central to her campaign for Georgia governor.
Her platform also includes insurance and grocery-tax relief, more affordable housing, guaranteed pre-K for 4-year-olds and expanded health coverage.
Bottoms is calling for a statewide pause on new data centers. She said Georgia ranks first in the country for data centers and argued that consumers and experts should help guide the state’s next steps.
One of her proposed tax measures would return the 2.5% tax on auto and homeowners insurance to Georgians, she said.
Her grocery-tax plan would let local governments choose whether to spend the money or eliminate the tax. Bottoms presented both as campaign proposals.
Her campaign has also proposed making housing more affordable and guaranteeing pre-K for 4-year-olds.
The platform includes lowering health care and prescription drug costs, as well as expanding Medicaid.
Bottoms wants to end Georgia Pathways, which she characterized as costing Georgians millions and called an “epic failure.” She said expanding Medicaid and changing the program would make it easier for people to obtain health coverage through the health care exchange.
To make her case for Medicaid expansion, Bottoms cited the closure of nine rural hospitals and the shutdown of chemotherapy, intensive care, labor and delivery units across Georgia.
She also urged voters to consider her vision for the state and said she wants to give people more power in Georgia’s government.
Yolonda Harris
News Now Georgia
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