We know that Gov. Nathan Deal has taken Georgia straight to the bottom. Georgia’s unemployment rate is now THE WORST in the nation. Deal’s ethics scandals have cost taxpayers $3.1 million in legal fees. He’s slashed education funding by $1 billion every, single year and broken the HOPE Scholarship. Four rural hospitals have closed on… [Read More]
Nathan Deal’s 10 biggest education failures
Nathan Deal is an abomination for Georgia schools. He’s devastated public education with billions in budget cuts and gutted the HOPE scholarship. Here are Nathan Deal’s 10 biggest education failures: 1. Nathan Deal has cut $4.1 billion from public education since 2011. 2. As a result, there are 9,000 fewer teachers in classrooms. … [Read More]
Nathan Deal is struggling for re-election. Here’s why.
Clarity. With every candidate for Georgia’s top offices onstage at the Georgia National Fair this week, it’s clear to see why Nathan Deal is the odd man out. Veteran AJC political reporter Jim Galloway participated in the debate and wrote about why Gov. Nathan Deal’s rhetoric is off key: “And suddenly, the reason behind Gov…. [Read More]
Gov. Deal: Where’s the HOPE?
Election year pandering is nothing new for many politicians, but Gov. Deal might be the king of it. Just three years after gutting the HOPE scholarship–the ticket to higher education for thousands of Georgia’s college students–Gov. Deal is pitching a brand new program to encourage adults to head back to the classroom. Deal’s hoping that… [Read More]
The real story on how Nathan Deal broke the HOPE scholarship
Back in 2010, the HOPE scholarship covered 100% of a student’s tuition and fees. The 256,380 students that could finally afford to go to college were like: Their parents were even happier. But then Nathan Deal got elected to office. And in his first year in office, Gov. Deal hacked away at the HOPE budget…. [Read More]
Nathan Deal’s failures and scandals
GOV. DEAL’S SCANDALS Gov. Deal is up to his eyes in scandals as he asks for your vote. Here are just a few: Gainesville Salvage – When Nathan Deal was in Congress, the Congressional Ethics committee launched an investigation into his shady business practices. Congress determined that Deal had improperly used the power of his… [Read More]
Nathan Deal’s “Gift” to Georgia’s Students: Huge Cuts to HOPE Scholarship
In 2011, mere months after he was elected, Gov. Deal announced he was giving “a gift to future generations of Georgia’s outstanding students”: he was about to slash the budget for the HOPE scholarship just as many low-income families needed help the most. Since those cuts, the number of HOPE recipients has fallen from 256,000… [Read More]
Gov. Deal approves of this message. But you paid for it.
Gov. Nathan Deal’s re-election campaign is just smoke and mirrors. Today we learned that Gov. Deal has based his campaign on a bogus claim that was bought and paid for by your tax dollars. It turns out Site Selection Magazine has 134,000 reasons to say that Georgia is the No. 1 place to do business…. [Read More]
What Gov. Deal doesn’t know hurts us all
It’s hard to follow the Chip Rogers story — as told by the governor’s office. Just over a week ago, Gov. Deal claimed that his office had nothing to do with Chip Rogers losing his $150,000 per year, taxpayer-funded job at GPB. But now — thanks to an open records request — that story has… [Read More]
Too busy for Georgia.
We’ve seen a troubling pattern with Gov. Nathan Deal. Instead of taking care of Georgia’s business, Gov. Deal is busy taking care of his own personal interests and constantly trying to fix scandals. Whether he is preparing to testify in court about an alleged cover-up of his campaign’s finance violations, or putting $76 million dollars… [Read More]
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