Greetings, Georgia.

When the $1.5 trillion federal spending bill was approved in Congress last week, it was the first time in more than a decade that the package included spending on individual projects requested by members of the House and Senate — formerly known as “earmarks.”

Sens. Raphael Warnock and Jon Ossoff say they’re proud that they’ve secured a total $157 million for 39 projects, including  $12.5 million to build a helicopter parking apron at Macon’s Moody Air Force base, $200 million for mental health services for child survivors of trauma.

Note that the list of funds Warnock put out are on the letterhead of his campaign organization.

There’s nothing unethical about that: It’s simply a sign of how important showing your statewide constituents you’re working on their behalf can be to your campaign — and he’s up for reelection this year.

Similarly, last month Kemp’s office proudly announced that he was distributing $400 million in federal COVID relief funds for broadband access in 70 counties. That money goes primarily to presumably red, rural counties that Kemp hopes to win in his reelection campaign.

Democratic gubernatorial candidate Stacey Abrams speaks in Cuthbert on her "One Georgia" campaign tour on Tuesday, March 15, 2022. (Stephen Fowler / GPB News)

In her first statewide tour of her campaign for governor, Stacey Abrams returned to familiar themes that brought her close to victory in 2018: a full expansion of Medicaid and more equitable and affordable health care for all Georgians.

To emphasize her message, Abrams first stop was in rural Cuthbert, where she spoke in front of the Southwest Georgia Regional Medical Center, one of several hospitals to close in rural Georgia in recent years.

Abrams reminded crowds that she’d founded a number of nonprofit organizations dedicated to expanding the voter rolls and working to ensure fair elections.

• “I’ve done the work, now I want the job!” she told cheering supporters.

A Kemp spokesman shot back that Abrams had been spending her time “chasing the covers of style magazines and running a shadow campaign for president” since losing to Kemp.

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Former President Donald Trump will headline a March 26 rally in Commerce to pump up support for the Georgia Republicans he’s endorsed so far for a variety of offices — and most importantly, the gubernatorial campaign of David Perdue, who's trailing Gov. Brian Kemp in recent polls and by a wide margin in fundraising.

The Perdue campaign is eyeing one poll that shows a plurality of GOP voters don’t know Perdue has Trump’s support, so the hope is that the rally will energize those voters for the former senator.

In the meantime, Perdue travels to Mar-a-Lago for a fundraiser with Trump this week.

• Now, he’s under scrutiny for a Tweet that spreads Russian propaganda about Ukraine.

The false Russian story is that their invasion is to end neo-Nazi control of the Ukrainian government. In that context, Russia offered a U.N. resolution condemning Naziism.

Shafer’s tweet expressed astonishment that the United States and Ukraine would vote against the resolution. But most countries of Western Europe recognized the resolution as a transparent Russian effort to link Ukraine to neo-Naziism ahead of the then-threatening invasion.

Jason Shepard, a member of the state GOP committee, said he’ll ask the party to censure Shafer; and conservative radio talk show host Erik Erickson blasted Shafer in a tweet.

• “Even though I am extremely flattered and grateful to be nominated for the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame, I don’t feel that I have earned that right. I really do not want votes to be split because of me, so I must respectfully bow out.”