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| Dem candidate for Georgia governor Stacey Abrams won't pick cotton |
| 2018-10-19 |
| [Daily Caller] The Democratic nominee in Georgia’s gubernatorial election had to walk back comments that suggested the agriculture and hospitality industries weren’t worth working in. The controversy began when Stacey Abrams was giving a speech at Georgia Southern University as part of her "We Are Georgia" bus tour. "I want to create a lot of different jobs because people shouldn’t have to go into agriculture or hospitality to make a living in Georgia. Why not create renewable energy jobs because ‐ I’m going to tell ya’ll a secret ‐ climate change is real," Abrams said Tuesday at the campaign rally. Throughout the campaign, Abrams has been a big proponent of solar and wind energy, and has made fighting climate change a part of her campaign platform. The Democratic candidate went on to claim in her Tuesday speech that the state could create 25,000 to 45,000 "good paying" jobs if renewable energy industry is recognized as "not only the future," but also as "the now." The insinuation that agriculture wasn’t worth working in drew backlash from her critics. Georgia Secretary of State Brian Kemp, who is the Republican nominee in the election, suggested her comments were "hurtful" and an indication that she was spending too much time with her "socialist backers in San Francisco." |
| Posted by:Besoeker |
| #18 Oops. Damned thing's in Everett. Poems be poems. Don't matter the latitude if you got the attitude. |
| Posted by: SteveS 2018-10-19 23:32 |
| #17 AlanC & TW, thanks for your understanding. ;-) But I was even wronger! The turbine that so irked me apparently resides on a little tongue of Boston (Charlestown, even... why do I feel a "Man Who Never Returned" parody coming on?) that protrudes across the Malden Bridge, nowhere near Malden, which makes sense given how most things in New England named for a given town are off in other towns on the way there. Sigh... ya get a little distracted and suddenly the whole world is full of surprises. And superfluous commas. |
| Posted by: Zenobia Floger6220 2018-10-19 22:56 |
| #16 That's all changed since Abrams came along. Nice. |
| Posted by: swksvolFF 2018-10-19 19:35 |
| #15 We need giant hamster wheels used to generate power. If you are on welfare you can walk (or run) in the wheel for a certain amount of time each day to earn your check. |
| Posted by: Ebbanter Bluetooth9582 2018-10-19 19:29 |
| #14 Oops. Damned thing's in Everett. Sorry, Malden (and Burg). Thus neatly displaying the difference between poetic Truth and mere prosaid reality. ;-) |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2018-10-19 16:07 |
| #13 Just came from the polling place. Record early voting turn-outs were being reported in districts south of Atlanta. |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2018-10-19 15:29 |
| #12 ZF, my son and dil live in Malden no apology necessary. It's still a dump no matter what. |
| Posted by: AlanC 2018-10-19 14:34 |
| #11 She's full of hot air (wind) and trying to blow sunshine up Georgians collective a$$. |
| Posted by: warthogswife 2018-10-19 12:53 |
| #10 Oops. Damned thing's in Everett. Sorry, Malden (and Burg). |
| Posted by: Zenobia Floger6220 2018-10-19 12:09 |
| #9 It came from the future and sprawled in A spot dark, Satanic (no Walden!) And thoroughly shitty. Though shiny and pretty, It uglied the hell outta Malden. |
| Posted by: Zenobia Floger6220 2018-10-19 12:04 |
| #8 Make the windmill blades out of solar energy material. Make them out of plutonium and you can use them as a radio-thermal generator when it's calm. |
| Posted by: SteveS 2018-10-19 11:52 |
| #7 The Future will wait not an hour! Our Vision: Renewable Power! The spin must be endless, Maintained, when it's windless, By batteries filling the tower. |
| Posted by: Zenobia Floger6220 2018-10-19 11:51 |
| #6 Make the windmill blades out of solar energy material. No wind you still got output (unless it's cloudy of course). |
| Posted by: jpal 2018-10-19 11:07 |
| #5 georgia is about the worse place in the US for wind power That's all changed since Abrams came along. |
| Posted by: gorb 2018-10-19 10:41 |
| #4 Wind and solar "energy" are economically unsustainable relying on subsidy. Where's the graft in that? Oh, right.... |
| Posted by: AlanC 2018-10-19 09:36 |
| #3 Wind and solar "energy" are economically unsustainable relying on subsidy. The taxes needed to subsidise them kill many more jobs than any created in the "green" sector. This is amplified by the fact green subsidies effectively go to land-owners and so the money goes to title owners, not for work done. |
| Posted by: Bright Pebbles 2018-10-19 07:26 |
| #2 georgia is about the worse place in the US for wind power they already have a number of wind towers on hill ridges and people see with their own eyes that the blades don't revolve at all about half the time |
| Posted by: lord garth 2018-10-19 06:21 |
| #1 Trying to leave openings for illegals? |
| Posted by: gorb 2018-10-19 01:38 |