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Watch out for Brian Kemp - not telling whole truth in his campaign ...

We received an email advertisement from State Senator Brian Kemp today. We were somewhat surprised at an advertisement to "Republicans" bringing up the issue of our State's Agriculture products " ... being under threat from overseas competition".

Now this statement is very true, as are Georgia's manufactured products. But from that point his message becomes misleading and is just campaign rhetoric.

Lets look at the record of the latest and greatest "overseas competition" to Georgia's Agriculture and Manufactured products. This was the latest in the growing line of SHAFTA Trade Agreements, CAFTA. From reading Mr. Kemp's campaign announcement you would think that his party, Republican, stands behind Americans and American products. But this is not backed up by those pesky things called FACTS.

Quite to the contrary, exactly the opposite is true. Lets look at the voting record on the latest threat to Georgia's products from overseas - CAFTA:

So much for being concerned about Georgia's Agriculture products. This information is from the official Congressional Roll Call Vote (See: CAFTA passed House by two votes ...).

Now it is true that State Senator Brian Kemp was not directly involved in the vote on CAFTA, but nor did he speak out against the overwhelming support that CAFTA received from Republicans. As we all know, corporate special interests are pushing the growing list of SHAFTA Trade Agreements and Mr. Kemp's record in the Georgia Senate shows that he is willing to wheel and deal with the likes of the Metro Atlanta Chamber.

In 2003 the Metro Atlanta Chamber publicly bragged about their influence on State Senators such as Mr. Kemp:

The Metro Atlanta Chamber won about three-fourths of its agenda, most critically the flag. Given a new Governor and new legislative leadership, this was a great achievement. 

The above statement was immediately displayed on the Metro Atlanta Chamber web site after the FAIR vote was removed from HB-380 in 2003. Once this statement was publicized the sheer arrogance of the statement must have been quickly recognized and it was replaced with a somewhat more carefully worded statement. State Senator Brian Kemp was one of the Republican State Senators who participated in this example of self proclaimed Chamber influence.

But it is a statement of fact that this claim was made by the Metro Atlanta Chamber, and it is one that shows the ongoing conflict in a struggle between the People of Georgia and special interests. This struggle covers many issues and as we all know the Metro Chamber strongly supported CAFTA and all other corporate welfare.

We do not believe that a State Senator who remains silent on his Party's support for CAFTA and has shown that he is part of the Metro Atlanta Chambers self proclaimed - sphere of unholy influence is the one to be put in charge of  the State of Georgia Agriculture products.

This candidate should be put on the NO - VOTE list and select another candidate.

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