Platform published 2026-10-31
Jackson, a health care business founder who grew up in foster homes, describes himself as an outsider focused on results. On affordability, he would immediately freeze property taxes, cut the state income tax in half within four years, use technology and AI to eliminate wasteful spending, and freeze tuition, room, and board at public colleges and technical schools. On jobs, he aims to create more jobs than any governor in Georgia history, recruit employers statewide, make Georgia the top state for entrepreneurship, build 21st-century jobs in rural Georgia, and give farmers affordable capital and help negotiating input prices. He would tie public assistance for able-bodied adults to work or job training and expand vocational pathways. On government, he would audit every program for results, eliminate programs that don't work, and enact the strongest ethics laws in America. On health care, he would use better technology, cut out middlemen, expand rural access, and negotiate better pharmacy rates. He proposes a Legacy Corridor Initiative for six historic commercial districts and capital programs for startups, a statewide push on childhood literacy and career pathways, and a state match of the $1,000 federal "Trump Accounts" contribution for each child. On children and schools, he would strengthen the Parents' Bill of Rights, ban what he calls ideological indoctrination, keep boys out of girls' sports, bathrooms, and locker rooms, and, citing his Fostering Success Act for tuition-free college for foster youth, speed permanency and mental health access in foster care. On public safety, he pledges full support for law enforcement, an end to "revolving-door justice," and rejection of soft-on-crime policies. For veterans, he would waive licensing fees for military families, improve veterans' health care, and create a Governor's Office of Military and Veterans Affairs and a 24/7 hotline. He would make Georgia first in the nation for deporting criminal illegal immigrants and prohibit DEI programs in state government, public universities, and classrooms.
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