ATLANTA — Competing economic agendas from Gov. Brian Kemp and his Democratic challenger, Stacey Abrams, crystallized this past week as the two rivals issued strikingly different visions of how to tap state coffers bulging with billions of dollars in surplus money.
In a highly publicized speech, Abrams demanded that Georgians not squander a "generational" opportunity to build a more equitable economy as she promoted more than a dozen economic proposals, headlined by a call to expand gambling.
The governor days later unveiled the first major policy promises of his reelection campaign, pledging to deploy the state's financial windfall to refund Georgia taxpayers rather than embark on ambitious new government programs.
