Augusta Lawmaker Welcomes TV Show to Georgia

Wednesday, July 17th, 2013

State Sen. Hardie Davis was one of four Democratic legislators at a Capitol news conference Tuesday to welcome producers of the Lifetime Entertainment/A&E show Catering Wars and to congratulate the General Assembly for enacting tax breaks to bring them and other producers to Georgia.

He said the Senate Economic Development Committee he serves on invited him and his colleagues to the event.

Even the politicians were a little surprised at how much impact they had in creating the state’s multi-billion-dollar industry with 25,000 jobs.

“We didn’t have an expectation that it would be at this stage,” said Davis, D-Augusta. “When you look at the different TV shows that have made Georgia, and quite frankly Atlanta, their home, we got a tremendous return on our investment.”

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