Bottoms announces transition team, priorities

The work for Governor-elect Keisha Lance Bottoms has just begun.

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She is focusing on issues, including the cost of living, expanding access to quality health care and investing in education.

Medicaid, abortion, affordability: Keisha Lance Bottoms reveals her priorities. Republicans are promising a fight, LIVE on Channel 2 at 6 p.m.

“We want to make sure people across the state of Georgia are heard from our rural communities to our urban centers are heard,” Bottoms said Friday.

She introduced her transition team, which will include Arthur Blank, Jason Carter, Tyler Perry and a slate of veterans of state and Atlanta city government.

But Channel 2’s Richard Elliot reports a new state report shows that the governor-elect and Democrats will face a substantially different budget than the one Republicans had.

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