Georgia Gov Kemp at Korean SK Innovations battery plant
Greene on the Cartersville battery plant: “It’s like a slap in everybody’s face. …I’m very concerned over it and completely against it.”
In comments during an August town hall, Marjorie Taylor Greene questioned why Georgia would invest in electric vehicle and battery plants.
Greene told her constituents that battery plants are “very toxic” and those in Cartersville and Rome should be concerned about the new plant. Greene also blasted the remote location of the new Cartersville plant, mocked Joe Biden’s statement that it means more jobs, and took a strong position against it: “I’m very concerned over it and completely against it.”
Greene also attacked battery plant initiatives, claiming it allows China into the country. The plant in Cartersville is ran by SK Innovation, a South Korean company.
After ranting against electric vehicle technologies, Greene bizarrely pitted the push for electric vehicle plants against the Bible:
“We’re the Bible Belt down here. We don’t want to be the battery belt.”
Also from the same town hall …
“It’s Not Right”— Marjorie Taylor Greene Attacks Creation of High Paying Jobs in Her District
“I’ll tell you what I think about this. It’s not right for the government, state or federal, to fund companies to move into an area to compete with existing companies and steal workers away. And that’s something Joe Biden bragged about.
Oh, he’s bragging big about the battery plant that’s being built and solar panel plant. And I’m not against any company, but I’ll tell you what I am against. I’m against the federal government and the state government giving tax credits and giving all this taxpayer money help to plant a company somewhere when there’s already not enough workers.
And then that company with all the federal and state tax help, gets to steal workers away from these existing home grown, small businesses or big businesses, but Georgia based companies where they are stealing these workers away. That’s wrong, but Joe Biden thinks that he’s done something great. And I just let him brag about it and go, ‘Bless his heart.’ He’s just so pitiful.”
There’s some hypocrisy in Greene’s town hall comments from August 31st. Greene toured the Q-CELLS plant in early August, noting the plant employs over 1,500 people, and in an article published one month before, Greene told E&E News that the solar factory in her district is “fantastic.”
