Tuesday, April 23, 2024 - Kemp's political calculus re: Medicaid & who's booting who in ATL?

Yesterday we glossed over Friday's ⁠"Politically Georgia" podcast⁠ featuring a Thursday Q&A - recorded before an audience - with Governor Brian Kemp. Today, we hone in on his hardline stance on Medicaid expansion. The man is stubborn(ly refusing to admit his 'Pathways' program is failing & costs Georgia taxpayers more than outright expansion would). Jay Bookman writes an op-ed in the Georgia Recorder that surmises the political calculus Kemp's employing for his future ambitions. Then, get this: my car got booted over the weekend while shopping at a Kroger on Ponce. I admit it: I parked where a space doesn't exist. My beef is how it had become so common for people to park exactly as I had that it became routine only for the property owner to suddenly & without warning (or glaring signage) to begin booting people. Stay with me here ... the property owner is obviously trying to combat folks parking there to hang for hours on the Beltline, too. The property owner? Invest Atlanta - the city of Atlanta Development Authority. The same city of Atlanta whose mayor is now waffling on rail transit on said Beltline. You can't make this stuff up!