Deal has been trying to paint himself as a job creator, hence this bull shit ad:Thursday, Gov. Nathan Deal's campaign planned a press conference, hoping to announce good news for the governor. Instead, the Republican found himself explaining a fourth straight month of rising unemployment."I am troubled by it obviously," said Deal.
The numbers come from the federal department of labor. The same agency has shown growth in the number of jobs in Georgia in the last three years -- which led Deal to suggest that Democrats were cooking the numbers to hurt him and other Republican governors,
"It's ironic in a year in which Republican governors are leading some of the states that are making the most progress, that they almost without exception are classified as having a bump in their unemployment rates," Deal said. "Whereas states that are under Democratic governors control, they are all showing that their unemployment rate has dropped."
Deal's campaign shared a chart showing that unemployment jumped in July under 22 of 29 GOP governors -- but dropped in 13 of 21 states led by Democrats. - 11 Alive, 9/18/14
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But Carter is fighting back:Gov. Nathan Deal’s campaign released the latest in a string of optimistic ads trumpeting the Republican’s economic policy, saying he has “delivered on his promise” of making Georgia a more competitive state. At the same time, the campaign is reviving a separate airwave attack on Democrat Jason Carter’s education stance.
The above 30-second spot, called “When,” begins airing in metro Atlanta today. It tries to make the case that Deal has pressed much of the year: That his economic policies have made Georgia the No. 1 place in the nation to do business.
Carter has been trying to undercut that message by calling Deal’s strategy a “grab bag” philosophy and pointing to this month’s news that Georgia has the nation’s second-highest jobless rate.
At the same time, voters outside of Atlanta will see a pair of 15-second spots, originally released in June, that question why Carter voted for the three budgets before he ran for higher office but decided this year to oppose the state spending plan.
The Democrat gave his most complete answer yet to that question on Monday, saying he voted for those budgets in the spirit of bipartisanship but cast a “no” vote after a statewide tour of schools last year opened his eyes to troubles facing schools. - Atlanta Journal-Constitution, 9/17/14
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We can beat Deal, we just have to get the base out to vote and get Carter to 50%. Click here to donate and get involved with Carter's campaign:Carter’s strategic shift reflects his campaign’s hope that he can undercut the governor’s sunny economic argument, particularly in light of the August report that put Georgia’s jobless rate as the second-highest in the nation. In the AJC poll released over the weekend, 92 percent of voters said the economy was either “very important” or “extremely important” in their position.The Democratic state senator issued no new policy pronouncements and offered few specifics. But he called on the state to increase its marketing outreach, analyze whether tax incentives are working, improve transportation infrastructure and make it easier for state pension funds, including the teachers pension, to invest in Georgia companies.
He took particular aim at a bipartisan push to invest state funds and private capital in a venture fund. A $10 million initial infusion to the fund didn’t survive the budgeting process.
“It was going to send a message that Georgia was ready to be a place where they were going to start talking about venture and access to capital,” he said, adding: “It’s not on the radar screen now. The only thing that’s happening right now in terms of economic development is a single-ingredient recipe that says we can do one-off negotiated tax breaks for people who are willing to come in with a big factory.”
His comments included no mention of an earlier pledge to “professionalize” the state’s economic development department, which prompted Deal to say it betrayed a lack of understanding about the office’s work. But he revived an argument criticizing the Deal campaign’s trumpeting of three media rankings that put Georgia as the best place to do business.
“They have been chasing these magazine rankings. And that is, to me, not a real answer,” said Carter, who added: “Georgia right now is the place where people send their call centers. And we need is to be the place where people develop forward-looking technology.”- Atlanta Journal-Constitution, 9/17/14
