Stuff Sainz Left Out

In what looks like conveniently timed election support, the Tribune & Georgian has run a Representative Steven Sainz Opinion column twice in the last two weeks. Sainz tells us about all the hard work he’s doing up at the Legislature in Atlanta.

Since there’s a lot to digest (expose), we’ll review each Sainz column in separate posts starting with the one published on February 15th.

The words “Camden County‘ are not mentioned even once in his 560-word missive. There are certainly important things going on under the capitol’s gold dome, but dang it, we want to hear about what Sainz is doing for us in Camden County.

Sainz wrote about $23.9 million going to the Rural Workforce Housing Program. How much of that is coming to Camden County?

Sainz said $350 million is going toward “infrastructure and economic development projects, including water and wastewater systems”. How much of that is coming to Camden County?

Sainz says Education remains a priority with $102.5 million directed to the Quality Basic Education Formula. How much of that is coming to Camden County?

Sainz wrote that the State’s $2 Billion surplus requires “increased appropriation responsibility.“ Good grief! Does that mean he and his House buddies now have to find something else to spend that $2 Billion on?

Sainz proudly co-sponsored HB1015 rolling back the state income tax by 0.10%. (You read that right: zero, point 1 percent). With $16 Billion sitting in State reserves, it’s about time they stopped taking too much out of our retirement incomes and paychecks.

Then there is this:

Representative Sainz wrote, “Additional tax relief measures were unanimously passed, including increases in homestead exemptions”. Hardly. “Unanimously passed” in the House, but the Senate has a completely different proposal. Sainz might have checked the Camden County website and noticed the House’s effort to increase homestead exemptions from $2,000 to $4,000 means nothing in Camden County since our homestead exemption is already $4,000.

Proving our 40-day legislative session is full of mischief, Sainz neglected to write anything about House Resolution 212 to change the current two-year terms of his office to four-year terms beginning in 2026. We think that is a bad idea and hope Sainz does, too...

We'd sure like to see a Sainz’s House Resolution instructing elected District Attorneys to indict those who stole millions of tax dollars right here in Camden County.

We're not holding our breath on that one...