U.S. Senator Loeffler Visits the Good Life City

U.S. Senator Loeffler Visits the Good Life City

ALBANY, GA- Greater Georgia Chairman and former U.S. Senator Kelly Loeffler had a busy day in Albany.

Three years ago, Loeffler donated $1 million to Phoebe Putney Hospital. On Thursday, she returned to the Good Life City to see how the hospital utilized her contribution.

“We got to visit the mobile unit that’s out in the community making sure everyone in the community has access to good health care resources. We got to see the NICU lab, the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit, and the very important work they’re doing with our youngest and most vulnerable. Then we also got to see the simulation lab which was really interesting and really an innovative way to address patient quality care. I’m just really honored that Phoebe is doing so much with the contribution we made and that so many others came together to make in this community towards a hospital that was really the first hospital under siege in this country from Covid,” Loeffler said.

Sen. Loeffler also visited Albany State University, where she made a donation to student scholarships.

“I wanted to visit Albany state because as you know phoebe Putney can’t do it without an educated and well-trained workforce and Albany state is really providing a part of that pipeline with their great nursing students… I made a contribution to student scholarships and got to learn about their vision for the future to expand and provide more ways to meet our state’s serious need for nursing,” Loeffler explained.

Despite no longer serving as a Senator, Loeffler has continued to serve the Peach State through the Greater Georgia organization, which she believes can greatly benefit Dougherty County citizens.

“Greater Georgia is a non-partisan nonprofit and so we’re really focused on issues advocacy. So, helping educate citizens on what is going on in the state less is legislature that will affect their lives like education healthcare public safety. We have a crime emergency in our state and even here in Dougherty County where there’s a 10,000-case backlog and thousands of those cases are violent crime. And, so, it’s so important that citizens understand what’s at stake in elections and it does directly affect them so we’re working really hard to be that connective tissue between citizens and the state legislature,” said Loeffler.

She says confronting important issues in communities like Albany is crucial, and plans to continue serving the Good Life City.

“It has a special place in my heart. I grew up in a small town is town of 600 and I grew up on a farm, so I understand the needs for rural communities. It just has a special place for me because I know that these are underserved areas and we need to make sure that everyone understands that every part of our state has to succeed for our entire state to be successful and Albany does so much to make our entire state successful. Things like Albany State University and Phoebe Putney and the innovations they’re doing. So, I’ll stick around!” Loeffler explained.

After visiting ASU and Phoebe, Loeffler hosted a “Coffee and Conversations” event at BJ’s County Buffet Thursday afternoon. There she communed in a room full of her supporters and both Albany City and Dougherty County Officials, as well as answered questions they had for her.

CBS 44’s Mary Alex Anders asked Loeffler “Although everyone preaches ‘protect our children’, nothing has been done to prevent school shootings. With American’s having the 2nd amendment, what do you think needs to be done, or what funding needs to be provided in order to put more security in our schools, as well as potentially increase pay for teachers and law enforcement officers for their role in protecting students?”

“In my opinion one of the worst things that has happened is taking resource officers out of schools. When people that want to do harm know that these schools are not armed, they are more likely to be targeted because someone who wants to commit a crime is not going to be deterred by a law. So, what we need to do is protect our schools, and let it be known that this is not a safe place for a violent person. If we take weapons away from law abiding citizens, that does nothing to deter this at all. So what we have to confront is that the left has created this environment that schools are not being defended” Loeffler explained.

“I think the bigger picture is when talking about the funding, where are the funds going when they get in the system? I mean tax collection levels for state, local federal governments, are at all-time records. Governments are flushed with money whether it’s local municipalities or state or federal. But, is the money going to bureaucracy or is it going to teachers and, or, to law enforcement? Right now, if you look at schools, too often its going to administrators’ bureaucracy, not teachers. There was a great op-ed a few weeks ago that said one of our state universities has more DEI administrators than it does history teachers. If we want people to respect the rule of law, we need to teach them the law and not promote divisive narratives that don’t advance one’s ability to succeed. Education should set every single student up to succeed and make sure that they have a safe environment, not a bloated bureaucracy to battle through and all the finger pointing that results from that,” said Loeffler.

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