Ten years ago, then-Vice President Joe Biden arrived at Savannah’s bustling port and gave Georgia politicians seeking a massive dredging project everything they had hoped: unequivocal support for the $662 million plan.
The announcement was seen as a pinnacle of bipartisan cooperation, with Republican Gov. Nathan Deal and Democratic Atlanta Mayor Kasim Reed uniting the political class behind the need for a deepened port — and the bounty of jobs and trade it would bring the state.
As brutal as state politics can be, economic development was one area where politicians on both sides of the aisle could reliably come together.
