The All-Star Game was held in Atlanta on July 25, 1972, with the National League winning 4-3 in ten innings.
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Georgia Politics, Campaigns, and Elections
Congratulations to Georgia Secretary of State Brian Kemp, the Republican nominee for Governor.
Casey Cagle threw his support behind Brian Kemp after a blowout loss — including in his own county — on Tuesday in the Republican runoff.
Cagle conceded the race in a call to Kemp before taking the stage at his Atlanta election night event to speak with his supporters. In a tearful speech to morose supporters, Cagle said he was “the most blessed man alive” as he was surrounded by his family.
He left the deep bitterness of the runoff with Kemp behind almost immediately on Tuesday.
“(Kemp) has been a dear personal friend of mine for a long, long time,” Cagle said. “I know that when you’re in the arena, sometimes you get the boxing gloves out and there’s a lot of hits that go on. Within that context, I called Brian and I told him, ‘I hope the hits weren’t too hard on you and I hope the hits weren’t too hard on me.’”
Even Hall County broke hard for Kemp. With all precincts reporting, Kemp beat Cagle 56-44 in Hall County.
From the Associated Press, via the Athens Banner-Herald.
Georgia Republicans have chosen Brian Kemp to face Democrat Stacey Abrams for governor.
Their November matchup will test history and highlight the widening gulf between the two major parties in style and substance in the era of President Donald Trump.
The results have animated bases on the left and the right, leaving voters who consider themselves somewhere in the middle to decide one of the country’s most closely watched midterm contests.
Will a Deep South state — led by white, male governors since 1776 and not long removed from having Confederate insignia on its flag — elect as governor a self-declared progressive black woman from Atlanta as its chief executive?
Or will an increasingly urban, diversifying state — now the eighth most populous and home to The Coca-Cola Company, Delta, Home Depot, UPS and the 1996 Summer Olympics — embrace a brash, gun-wielding, chain saw-cranking Republican who says he’ll “round up criminal illegals” in his own pickup truck?
The Valdosta Times reports that Lowndes County supported Kemp for Governor.
Kemp, the Georgia secretary of state, received 2,836 Lowndes County votes, or 67.9 percent, compared to 1,338 votes, or 32 percent, for Lt. Gov. Casey Cagle, according to numbers available from the Secretary of State office.
Lowndes County voters opted for Geoff Duncan over David Shafer for the Republican lieutenant governor race. Duncan received 2,407 votes, or 60.5 percent, and Shafer received 1,567 votes, or 39.4 percent, in Lowndes County. But statewide, the race remained too close to call Wednesday morning. The winner will face Democrat Sarah Amico.
For the GOP secretary of state race, David Belle Isle received 2,379 votes, or 62.3 percent, with Brad Raffensperger receiving 1,437 votes, or 37.6 percent, in Lowndes County. But statewide, Raffensperger won the primary. He will face Democrat John Barrow in November.
State Rep. Jason Spencer (R-Woodbine) will resign at the end of this month, according to The Brunswick News.
Spencer sent a note to state Speaker of the House David Ralston announcing he decided to change course.
“This email/letter is to serve as an official resignation notice to your office that I will be resigning my post effective July 31, 2018,” Spencer wrote, according to multiple news outlets.
The notice heads off an effort by the state Legislative Black Caucus, the state House Democratic Caucus and the state Senate Democratic Caucus, which called a news conference for 11 a.m. Wednesday at the State Capitol to call for the Woodbine Republican’s resignation.
Eaddy Sams won the Republican nomination for Glynn County Board of Education District 2, according to The Brunswick News, while Robert Duncan won a seat on the Brunswick-Glynn County Joint Water and Sewer Commission and David O’Quinn won the GOP nod for Glynn County Commission Post 2 (at-large).
Republican Doug Duncan won the primary runoff for Columbia County Commission Chair, according to the Augusta Chronicle.
Duncan, a district commissioner and vice president of a staffing company, edged out Tucker by about 4 percent, garnering 7,983 votes, or 51.99 percent, to Tucker’s 7,373 votes, or 48.01 percent.
Now the Republican primary winner, Duncan faces no Democratic opposition for the chairman’s post.
Bulloch County Commissioner Walter Gibson won the runoff election for his seat, according to the Statesboro Herald.
With 2,323 voters casting ballots, Gibson garnered 1,175 votes to Chance’s 1,148, winning by a scant 27 votes, or 51.60 percent of the vote for Gibson to 48.40 percent for Chance.
Gibson said he is ready to “regroup and think about November,” when he will face Democrat challenger Adrienne Dobbs.
Democrat Jessica Walden won the primary runoff for State House District 144 and advances to the general election, according to the Macon Telegraph.
Communications consultant Jessica Walden will face Bleckley County coroner Danny Mathis after she emerged the victor in Tuesday’s Democratic runoff over Gregory Odoms for House District 144.
Walden, the niece and daughter of the brothers who founded Capricorn Records, received 924 votes, or 52 percent, to Odoms’ 835 votes, according to Tuesday’s unofficial election results.
District 144 includes Twiggs, Wilkinson and Bleckley counties plus parts of Bibb, Houston, Jones and Laurens. The House seat became vacant after [State Rep. Bubber] Epps decided to not run for re-election after having served 10 years.
Republican Dale Washburn was elected to represent State House District 141 in the primary runoff, according to the Macon Telegraph.
With almost 60 percent of ballots in the GOP runoff, Macon Realtor Washburn beat former Bibb County commissioner and former county board of education member Gary Bechtel.
No Democrat signed up to run for House District 141, so Washburn won’t have to spend the next few months campaigning.
He said that on Wednesday he’ll start meeting with local governments, business leaders and lawmakers past and present.
There will be a learning curve, he said.
A Whitfield County resident questioned the March 2019 timing of a Special Purpose Local Option Sales Tax referendum, according to the Dalton Daily Citizen.
“Why does it seem that votes on SPLOSTs and ESPLOSTs (Education SPLOSTs) take place during special elections, when turnout could be only 9 or 10 percent?” [Mark Gilstrap] said. “I’d like to see the vote take place during a general election, when turnout could be 35 or 40 percent or more.”
[Whitfield County Commission Chair Lynn] Laughter said she understands his concern and noted that turnout even during general elections can be low. But she said the timing is an issue because commissioners want to have the vote before the current SPLOST expires.
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