Opinion Editor Adam Van Brimmer blogs on local topics of interest most weekday mornings in the “Savannah’s Town Square” Facebook group. The following is an excerpt from one of those posts. Join the group at Facebook.com by searching "Savannah's Town Square."
Rep. Buddy Carter hasn't totally abandoned working for his constituents in favor of campaigning for U.S. Senate as a Trumpublican.
Carter recently filed for earmark funding for three district-specific projects, highlighted by a $5 million request for the Georgia Tech-Savannah campus.
Carter is the rare Georgia Republican to participate in the renewal of the earmark process. Six of the state's eight GOP reps, many of them outspoken Trump supporters, refused to submit requests and have labeled earmarks as "pork-barrel spending."