If Georgians liked Gov. Nathan Deal’s first term in office, they’re probably going to love his second.
Deal saw his re-election Tuesday as a sign that Georgians support his nothing-flashy brand of conservative politics that promises progress on a few major fronts, low state taxes, a helping hand to businesses and little in the way of bells and whistles.
In his second term, he’s thinking big and somewhat geeky. He hopes to update the state’s 30-year-old school funding formula that educators have long felt short-changed Georgia students.
He wants to remake the state ethics commission, an agency that has for years been a political thorn in his side.
And he plans to continue his much-lauded criminal justice reforms started in his first term.
In other areas, such as the economy, Deal’s second-term strategy will look familiar: hard, behind-the-scenes work and financial incentives to attract new jobs in hopes of improving what’s now the worst unemployment rate in the country. A comprehensive review of the tax structure, he said, could also be on the table.
It will all be done in a fiscal environment that, with steady but slow tax growth, probably won’t allow for many splashy new programs or costly projects.
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