2018 Georgia Gubernatorial race: debates and news coverage

OnTheIssues.org excerpts:  (click on issues for details)

Abortion     Casey Cagle: Conservative values: pro-life & pro-second Amendment.     Stacey Abrams: Expand reproductive freedom to under-served areas.     Casey Cagle: Every child is a gift from God; 100% pro-life.

Budget & Economy     Casey Cagle: JOBS: hire unemployed Georgians & incentivizes new business.     Stacey Abrams: Invest in community businesses.     Casey Cagle: Expect state government to balance budget & reduce waste.

Civil Rights     Stacey Abrams: No discrimination, including against LGBTQ.     Stacey Abrams: No discrimination, including against LGBTQ.     Brian Kemp: Against bigotry, but monuments are history.     Casey Cagle: Confederate monuments are a great cultural attraction.     Hunter Hill: Removing Confederate monuments is not the solution.     Stacey Abrams: Reflect on terrible Confederacy in museums, not monuments.     Hunter Hill: Supports Religious Freedom Restoration Act.

Corporations     Stacey Abrams: Invest in community businesses.     Casey Cagle: Keep taxes on business that create jobs low.     Brian Kemp: Cut government regulations to help small business owners.     Brian Kemp: Invest Georgia Exemption: first business $1M in exempt IPO.

Crime     Stacey Abrams: Justice should not be determined by your paycheck.     Brian Kemp: Collaborate with cities and sheriff's departments.     Stacey Abrams: Voted YES on criminalizing "up-skirting".     Stacey Abrams: Voted NO on 10-year minimum for assaulting a cop.

Drugs     Stacey Abrams: Expand list of conditions for medical marijuana.     Stacey Abrams: Add fentanyl to list of criminalized opioids.

Education     Stacey Abrams: No money for school vouchers.     Stacey Abrams: Must offer many paths for higher education.     Stacey Abrams: Must offer many paths for higher education.     Casey Cagle: Options for public charter, private school or home schooling.     Stacey Abrams: Help students from early learning thru post-secondary school.     Casey Cagle: Declare war on high school dropout rates in Georgia.     Hunter Hill: I believe the money should follow the child.     Casey Cagle: Education savings accounts including private schools.     Hunter Hill: Advocate for education accounts including private schools.     Stacey Abrams: Chief Turnaround Officers for low-performing schools.     Stacey Abrams: Voted NO on $42M more tax credits for private schools.

Energy & Oil     Stacey Abrams: Clean energy key to jobs & innovation.

Environment     Stacey Abrams: Hurricane recovery is a 10-month process, not 10 days.     Stacey Abrams: Stay on top of environmental waste & clean-up.

Families & Children     Stacey Abrams: Learning begins at birth.     Stacey Abrams: We must help our most vulnerable citizens.     Stacey Abrams: Learning begins at birth.     Hunter Hill: Let each adoption agency decide on allowing same-sex parents.

Government Reform     Brian Kemp: 1.5 million voters removed from the voting rolls.     Stacey Abrams: Deliberate interference & disenfranchisement in `18 election.     Stacey Abrams: Disenfranchisement was death by 1,000 cuts.     Stacey Abrams: Sued in 2016 to stop "exact match" on voter registration.     Brian Kemp: 53,000 voter registrations put "on hold".     Brian Kemp: OpEd: Precise name-match disenfranchises voters of color.     Stacey Abrams: Protect voter's rights against voter suppression tactics.     Stacey Abrams: Founded voter registration project.     Brian Kemp: Stricter voter ID laws against threat of illegal voters.     Stacey Abrams: Head of a voter registration group; focus on minorities.     Stacey Abrams: Exact-match process violates Voting Rights Act.     Stacey Abrams: Stop redistricting voters of color to dilute their votes.     Brian Kemp: Protect our elections from fraud with Voter ID.

Gun Control     Brian Kemp: Respect the 2nd Amendment if you want to date my daughter.     Hunter Hill: State should enact reasonable restrictions on guns.     Casey Cagle: Expand citizens' ability to protect themselves & families.     Stacey Abrams: Gun-carry license doesn't apply to "campus carry".     Stacey Abrams: State should enact reasonable restrictions on guns.

Health Care     Stacey Abrams: Medicaid expansion for reduced cost & preexisting conditions.     Stacey Abrams: Paying for uncompensated care brings money back.     Stacey Abrams: Expand Medicaid; explore universal coverage.     Brian Kemp: Free market replacement for ObamaCare.

Homeland Security     Stacey Abrams: Give military base residents tuition & teaching certificates.

Immigration     Casey Cagle: Double headline - Already Done.     Brian Kemp: Crack down on illegal immigration.     Stacey Abrams: Colleges need not act as immigration enforcement officers.

Jobs     Brian Kemp: 4-Point Plan to put hardworking Georgians to work.     Stacey Abrams: For living wage and right to form unions.     Stacey Abrams: For living wage and right to form unions.     Casey Cagle: Create 500,000 jobs in first term, to beat Deal's 319,000.

Principles & Values     Casey Cagle: Protect student athletes' religious expression.     Brian Kemp: State Senator and Secretary of State.

Social Security     Stacey Abrams: We must help our most vulnerable citizens.

Tax Reform     Casey Cagle: Businesses and families flourish when tax burden is low.     Stacey Abrams: Ask everyone to do their fair share.     Casey Cagle: Slash $100 million in taxes, without cutting core services.     Stacey Abrams: Keep graduated income tax instead of 5.4% flat tax.

Technology     Casey Cagle: Invest in good roads and a deepened harbor.     Stacey Abrams: We must invest in public infrastructure.     Casey Cagle: 10-year transportation plan for roads & bridges improvements.     Hunter Hill: Create driverless car corridors & double-deck 285.     Casey Cagle: Double--if not triple--our investment in transportation.     Stacey Abrams: Creates commission on Transit Governance and Funding.     Brian Kemp: Webpage & app for voter registration & sample ballot.

War & Peace     Hunter Hill: I fought to defend our values in Afghanistan and Iraq.

Welfare & Poverty     Stacey Abrams: Help working poor get a leg up.

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