Each card sums up what the candidate said across every video we indexed. Each sentence links to the clip it comes from.
Health care
Keisha Lance BottomsD
Bottoms pledges to expand Medicaid, calling it a day-one priority, and cites 300,000 Georgians without coverage and nine closed rural hospitals.
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Bottoms says insurers that repeatedly deny coverage should not do business in Georgia, and wants human appeals for AI-made denials.
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Bottoms proposes loan forgiveness, housing incentives and prescribing power for nurse practitioners to recruit health workers, plus mobile clinics.
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“I have repeatedly said that I want to expand Medicaid in this state.”
Jackson says he will expand Medicaid without losing the $4.5 billion Georgia receives, and argues expansion alone does not solve costs.
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Jackson proposes price transparency and negotiating with drug companies, and pledges to stop insurers from denying necessary coverage.
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Jackson proposes a 24/7 veterans concierge desk in the governor's office, hiring incentives, mental health support, and no tax on veterans.
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“What we need to focus on, not only in expanding Medicaid, that doesn't solve the cost. We need to come up with solutions that actually reduce the cost of health care.”
“There's not a person on either side of the aisle that is not going to be interested in me reducing health care costs because nobody else has done it.”
Bottoms proposes a $15 living wage applied statewide, and says she would encourage private employers to follow suit.
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Bottoms proposes a state small business division, breaking up large state contracts, and mobile offices and reopened farm resource offices in rural areas.
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Bottoms wants to extend Atlanta's employer workforce partnerships statewide and put casino gambling on the ballot, citing an estimated $300 million a year.
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“That living wage should be applied across this state. I will have the ability uh to implement that as governor and I will strongly encourage private employers to follow suit.”
Bottoms wants a pause on new data center construction until effects on power bills, water and consumers are clear.
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Bottoms proposes warrants, audited logs, shorter data retention and tougher misuse penalties for flock cameras, and is open to a moratorium on new ones.
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Bottoms says AI should add to, not replace, workers' and students' skills, and that trade training should include tech skills.
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“I want to pause on all new construction until we create a path forward that best serves all of Georgia and imminent domain should only be used in the most extreme circumstances.”
Jackson says he will not approve a data center unless the community approves, it meets strict EPA standards, and residents get lower bills and taxes.
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Jackson opposes a moratorium on flock cameras, saying crime could rise, and cites their use for Amber alerts and lost elderly people.
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Jackson says cameras should never be abused, and proposes healthcare-style field-level access limits and a Georgia Tech team to fix abuse.
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“I won't approve a data data center unless three things happen. Number one, the community absolutely approves it. Period. Number two, that it has strict EPA standards.”
Bottoms proposes raising starting teacher pay from $43,000 to $60,000, eliminating state income taxes for teachers, and fully funding pre-K.
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Bottoms wants a pathway to free technical and community college, tied to employer workforce training.
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Bottoms argues Georgia underfunds schools without a poverty weight, and wants to copy Mississippi's literacy coaches and phonics.
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“Right now, teachers are underpaid in this state. The average starting pay is $43,000 a year. I want to raise it to 60,000.”
Jackson says teachers need pay raises and administrative support, including help with discipline, so they can teach.
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Jackson pledges to expand health services for special-needs children, and opposes Medicaid paying providers 30% less for autism care.
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“The way that we solve that is not only have uh teacher pay raises, but we need to support the teachers in the room administratively for discipline reasons and help them”
Bottoms proposes letting local governments suspend or eliminate their grocery tax, and says the plan needs legislative passage.
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Bottoms wants to return auto and homeowners insurance taxes to consumers and suspend taxes on diapers and feminine hygiene products.
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Bottoms proposes a statewide fund to help seniors pay property taxes and a crackdown on corporate landlords raising prices.
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“This grocery tax relief program will give our local municipalities, our local governments and counties the opportunity to suspend their grocery tax or even eliminate it if they so choose.”
Jackson pledges to cut the income tax in half in his first term or not run again, and to freeze and reduce property taxes.
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Jackson says his campaign centers on taxes, affordability and property taxes, citing widows who may have to sell their homes over property taxes.
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Jackson argues Atlanta's 2021 inflation under Bottoms ran 40% higher than Biden's highest, and says he would lower costs.
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“I have committed to cut the income tax in half the first term or I won't run again.”
Bottoms proposes the Johnson Lewis Voting Rights Act, with an election-day state holiday, more voting days and hours, and more ID options.
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Bottoms wants to eliminate the state election board and increase poll worker security.
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Bottoms says Republican self-funding, including Jackson's, gives them a money edge, but argues voter power outweighs money.
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“I have proposed the Johnson Lewis Voting Rights Act for Georgia that will expand access to the right to vote. It will make election day a state holiday.”
Jackson says Kemp's 2021 election law made voting easy and cheating hard, and he is comfortable with current election security.
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Jackson says Justice Department involvement is unnecessary unless Kemp thinks it is, and denies suggesting National Guard deployment for this election.
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Jackson says he wants to be a uniter and has told Atlanta Mayor Dickens he will work with him.
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“I believe Governor Kemp did a great job in 2021 to pass a bill that was easy to vote and hard to cheat.”
Bottoms wants Atlanta's affordable housing trust fund model statewide, for down payment help and senior property costs.
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Bottoms proposes limiting how many Georgia homes private equity firms can own, and holding them accountable.
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Bottoms proposes affordable-unit set-asides in subsidized developments, streamlined county approvals, and state investment in rural infrastructure.
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“It allowed us to have flexibility to help people with down payment assistance, to help that senior with rising property costs when gentrification came to the neighborhood.”
“Uh when I've talked to affordable housing builders, what I am told is the lack of infrastructure, especially in our rural communities, makes it even more expensive to build affordable and workforce housing.”
No answer on record about this in the 3 videos we indexed.
Trump and Washington
Keisha Lance BottomsD
Bottoms pledges to sue the federal government when appropriate and stand up to Trump when necessary.
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Bottoms argues Jackson wants to be Trump's favorite governor and agrees with Trump on every policy.
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Bottoms says the state must fill funding gaps left by Trump administration cuts to programs from the Biden years.
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“I will sue the federal government when appropriate. I will stand up to Donald Trump when necessary. I'm not running to be his favorite governor. I'm running to work on behalf of people like you.”
“The future of our state is at stake. I'm running against a guy who says he wants to be Trump with a southern tone. He wants to be uh Trump's favorite governor.”
Bottoms proposes routing nonviolent offenders with mental illness to treatment, promoting 988, assigning case workers, and putting trained staff in jails.
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Bottoms proposes job and college training in prisons and jobs set aside with private partners for people completing sentences.
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Bottoms cites the largest police pay increase in Atlanta history and a pre-arrest diversion program, and says Atlanta's crime rise followed a national trend.
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“If they are committing a nonviolent crime, we want to make sure that they are routed to the appropriate services so that they can”
“most of our prisons in Georgia are in communities with technical and community colleges. I want to make sure that we have training in our prisons for people who will be completing their sentences”
Bottoms says Atlanta worked with partners to house groups such as veterans and LGBTQ youth, and that people with mental illness are hardest to reach.
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“Atlanta has had a lot of success in working with a lot of partners addressing homelessness.”
No answer on record about this in the 3 videos we indexed.
Record and trust
Keisha Lance BottomsD
Bottoms cites her Atlanta record of four balanced budgets, $180 million in reserves, 7,000 affordable housing units and first responder pay raises.
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Bottoms argues Jackson got a no-bid contract for his health care company, and contrasts her mayoral record with his.
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Bottoms says she shares her family story to help other families, and runs thinking of what she wishes her family had had.
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“I left the city with 4 years of a balanced budget, with $180 million in the bank. We delivered 7,000 units of affordable housing.”
Jackson says voters should pick a nonpolitician who, like Trump, runs the state like a business and decides by what is right.
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Jackson says money will not buy the election, and pledges to give away holdings above his 2008 level and decline the governor's salary if legal.
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Jackson says he owns no data center, and argues Bottoms approved three Atlanta data centers with $400 million in tax benefits.
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“I think it's time to vote for somebody that's a nonpolitician that does like Trump and runs the state like a business.”