(John Ransom, Headline USA) Georgia Republican gubernatorial candidate David Perdue accused incumbent Georgia Governor Brian Kemp, also a Republican, of granting state tax breaks to an electric auto company, Rivian Automotive, Inc, in which progressive billionaire George Soros has a billion-dollar stake said the Georgia Star.
“Kemp thought he could get away with this under the guise of ‘economic development,’ but all he is doing here is selling us out and lining George Soros’s pockets,” Perdue said according to the Georgia Star.
Soros has famously bankrolled progressive politicians around the country, most recently district attorneys who some blame for the increase in crime that the country is experiencing, according to the New York Post.
Kemp promised hundreds of millions of our tax dollars to a California company in which George Soros has invested $2 billion. And Kemp’s calling that “economic development.”
To me, it looks like an election-year giveaway. And Georgia taxpayers will be left footing the bill. pic.twitter.com/81OzfscdKR
— David Perdue (@DavidPerdueGA) March 2, 2022
“George Soros has quietly orchestrated the dark money political equivalent of ‘shock and awe,’ on local attorney races through the country, shattering records, flipping races and essentially making a mockery of our entire campaign finance system,” Tom Anderson, director of the Government Integrity Project at the National Legal and Policy Center in Virginia told the Post.
Soros purchased nearly 20 million shares of the auto company in the fourth quarter of 2021 at a price of around $1.8 billion, which is now estimated worth $1.07 billion, said electrive.com, after recent market action crushed tech company prices.
Rivian currently has a market capitalization of $47 billion, according to Yahoo Finance.
The contest between Perdue and Kemp centers around issues of election fraud going back to 2020 and involving the campaigns of both Perdue, who lost his bid for reelection to the US Senate, where he was first elected in 2015, and former president Trump, said Georgia Public Broadcasting.
Trump is supporting Perdue.
“Kemp has been a very weak Governor — the liberals and RINOs have run all over him on Election integrity and more. Most importantly, he can’t win because the MAGA base — which is enormous — will never vote for him,” Trump wrote, according to Business Insider in announcing his support for Perdue.
A recent poll by Trafalgar showed Kemp ahead of Perdue 49-40 percent, said the Atlanta Journal Constitution.
