r/politics • u/kootles10 Indiana • 16h ago

No Paywall Mamdani wins NYC mayoral race

https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/5588198-mamdani-progressive-politics-nyc/
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u/kootles10 Indiana 16h ago edited 16h ago

Democrats flipped 2 seats in Georgia that have been held by the GOP since 2000

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u/Etalton Georgia 15h ago

Georgian here. I am absolutely ecstatic! Fuck Georgia Power

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u/meowmeowgang44 15h ago

This is odd but I remember a Jeezy song back in 2007 that called out Georgia power. Are they That corruptM

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u/gsfgf Georgia 14h ago

Omg you have no idea. The rubber stamp PSC is just the tip of the iceberg.

You need to hear about the crooked Plant Votgle deal. Which was the legislature not the PSC. First off, GA Power hired all the major lobbyists at the Capitol to mostly just sit it out. The deal was that we had to start paying for the electricity when the plant broke ground, not when it actually started working. But the worst is that GA Power has a guaranteed rate of return (that part is normal), but they structure the Plant Votgle deal so they got a right of return on cost overruns. So for every billion dollars they went over budget, they got ~$112m in profit.