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The Erick Erickson Show

S11 EP94: Hour 3 - Brian Kemp Calls In

The Erick Erickson Show

Erick Erickson

News, News Commentary

4.5874 Ratings

🗓️ 20 May 2022

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Summary

Governor Brian Kemp joins the program to talk about his campaign and the opening of a massive Hyundai plant in Georgia plus could Trump’s loss in 2020 set up republican dominance for a decade?

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0:00.0

Hello and welcome. It is Eric Eriksson here across the nation from Atlanta, Georgia.

0:05.8

The phone number is 8779373-725.

0:11.3

If you'd like to be a part of this here program, all eyes of the nation have turned to Georgia.

0:17.4

There's a big primary here on Tuesday.

0:24.7

And the governor of Georgia kind of put his foot on the gas and has not stopped. The last week, been on a bus tour, major announcements,

0:31.5

economic announcements coming. One of those announcements down near Savannah, Hyundai,

0:37.1

open a big e electric vehicle factory

0:39.3

uh and he joins me by phone from down there where i guess uh the event hadn't started yet has it

0:45.7

welcome by the way hey good afternoon eric we are on the way as we speak

0:51.6

fantastic now listen i i got to ask you out of the gate here, probably the most

0:55.9

important question on people's minds. I know you had put a moratorium on the gas sales tax,

1:01.3

and y'all had been talking about maybe extending it. Have you all made any decision on that yet?

1:07.5

No, no decision yet. I've been talking to the leadership and the General Assembly and a lot of other folks

1:13.3

and just looking at the numbers.

1:15.6

It's a very expensive endeavor.

1:17.1

It costs us about $150 to $170 a month that, you know, something we take very seriously.

1:23.5

Thankfully, in the past, we've had the resources to be able to do this because we kept our state open and

1:28.3

we budgeted conservatively and had a great legislative session. And I want to thank the members of

1:33.3

the general assembly and the leadership for that. But we are continuing to dig into that. And I know

1:38.1

Georgians need it. I mean, it's rough at the pump, 40 year high Biden inflation, Biden inflation, disastrous domestic energy policy here in the

1:46.8

United States.

1:47.7

And we're just trying to do everything we can to help Georgia's fight through that.

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