Statements from Atlanta
Gov. Nathan Deal "has taken at least $15,600 from the (Koch brothers), their businesses, and their employees."
Almost 400 arrests in the city last year for panhandling-related offenses involved just 78 suspects, an indication that the same people are panhandling over and over.
Says Barack Obama's comments indicate he "believes in redistribution" of wealth.
Initial efforts to strip airport contractors of their special diversity status "has no effect" on the contracts or the city’s diversity goals.
On supporting the charter school amendment.
Says Georgia ranks "near the bottom in per capita transportation spending."
Says his plan to end the toll on Ga. 400 fulfills his campaign promise to commuters.
"The voting public had no say" in the Atlanta region’s proposed transportation project list.
Taxes on groceries and medicine will rise under a plan to improve roads and rail for metro Atlanta.
The state of Georgia has lost 200,000 total jobs and 50,000 construction jobs since May 2007.
According to a national survey, transit "ridership" among people age 16 to 34 increased 40 percent between 2001 and 2009.
Funding the federal health care law without a tax hike will "require the state to cut nearly a quarter of its annual budget."
The federal government has made investments in science and technology inventing the products that led to the creation of Google.
Portland, Ore., has "never gotten over 12 to 15 percent ridership" of its public transit system "in the past 12 years."
The new Hartsfield-Jackson international terminal was "on time and on budget."
"For every one mile of light-rail track that will be built, 16 miles of new road capacity will be built."
Hartsfield-Jackson’s new international terminal is opening "within budget."
"Right now, we have the lowest gas tax of anywhere in the country."
The recent process of awarding $3 billion worth of airport vending contracts was the "most open and transparent procurement process in the city’s history."
Georgia crackdown on illegal immigration costs state farmers $400 million last year.
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