On September 27, 1779, John Jay, who previously served as President of the Continental Congress, was appointed minister to Spain to seek Spanish support for the revolution.
President Franklin Roosevelt made his ninth visit to Warm Springs, Georgia on September 27, 1927.
September 27 is a red-letter day for the Atlanta Braves and pitcher John Smoltz. The team won a record 14th straight Division Championship on this day in 2005. Smoltz set a team record for regular season wins (24) on September 27, 1996 and extended his team record for strikeouts hitting 276.
On September 27, 2002, Smoltz set a National League record with 54 saves.
Glynn County is seeking federal recognition of its role during World War II, according to WTVM.
Officials in Glynn County have applied to the U.S. Department of the Interior to be named an American World War II Heritage City.
The Brunswick News reports the effort is being supported by 14 members of Congress from Georgia, as well as Gov. Brian Kemp.
Glynn County has a unique history during the war. Thousands of workers in Brunswick built ships to supply U.S. troops overseas. And 22 sailors died in April 1942 when a German U-boat torpedoed two merchant ships off St. Simons Island.
Governor Brian Kemp spoke at the Bicentennial celebration for Monroe County, according to 13WMAZ.
This weekend was a huge moment for everyone in Monroe County as it celebrated its bicentennial, and folks came out to Main Street in Forsyth to celebrate.
The two-day event brought out some VIP guests, like Senator John Kennedy, Governor Brian Kemp and Representative Susan Holmes, who gave the county credit.
“I’ve had the honor of speaking at a county’s 100th year celebration, but 200 is saying a lot,” Kemp said. “Throughout your long-standing history, you have made great contributions to our state, and for that, we are grateful. So, as you celebrate your 200th birthday and enjoy the festival, I hope that you not only look back at the history of this county and what you’ve contributed to our state, but also that you would consider the bright future this county has.”
Georgia Politics, Campaigns, and Elections
Zunzi’s restaurant in downtown Savannah is giving away free Conquistador sandwiches to fight childhood cancer, according to WTOC.
The celebration called Zunzifest! usually falls on the 26th day of each month, in honor of Z, the 26th letter of the alphabet. On Sunday, September 26, the restaurant gave away 500 sandwiches in the first Zunzifest! since February, when staffing shortages canceled the promotion.
Every month, the restaurant also partners with a different charity for Zunzifest! and 26 percent of the day’s other sales are donated to the cause. September is Childhood Cancer Awareness Month, and on Sunday Zunzi’s partnered with CURE Childhood Cancer, a charity that helps thousands of families in Georgia battling cancer.
Zunzi’s owner Chris Smith said he hopes the restaurant will be able to donate $2500.
To ensure social distancing, Zunzi’s allocated 20 slots every 15 minutes from 11:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. Guests presented their time slot receipt when ordering a free regular sandwich in person at the restaurant for takeout.
The Conquistador is a delicious sandwich and I make an effort to get one every single time I go to Savannah.
Former President Donald Trump came to Georgia on Saturday for a Save America rally. Here are some headlines:
Trump suggests Stacey Abrams might make better governor than Kemp at rally – CNN.com
Trump attacks Gov. Kemp, joins pro-Trump candidates in Perry – AJC.com
There’s so much coverage of the rally that I’m not sure I can add anything. But here’s a little bit from the AJC Political Insider:
Trump called out to several other GOP lawmakers from the stage who were in attendance, including U.S. Reps. Marjorie Taylor Green and Austin Scott, who both spoke ahead of Trump, U.S. Rep. Rick Allen, and U.S. Rep. Andrew Clyde, whom Trump praised. “Great job, Andrew, thank you,” Trump said.
Finally, Trump gave a shout-out to two congressional candidates from suburban Atlanta districts, Rich McCormick, who is running in the Seventh Congressional District, and Jake Evans, who is running in the Sixth District.
Although the boundaries for those seats will change after redistricting, they weren’t exactly Trump country in 2020.
Trump lost the Sixth District to Joe Biden by 11 points, and he lost the Seventh District to Biden by seven.
Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, Rep. Jody Hice, state Senator Burt Jones, and other politicians took Saturday to call for major changes to the Georgia voting system.
“We’ve got to get people believing when they go to the polls that their vote truly counts. I’m going to commit to you today that if I have anything to do with it, we’re going to get rid of those voting machines, we’re going to get rid of those voting machines because people don’t trust them,” Jones said. “Just that simple. They don’t trust them and if people don’t trust them, they won’t show up to vote.”
“We’ve got to restore election integrity in this state that Brad Raffensperger has destroyed. We’ve got to restore confidence in the voters that their votes count. And only one legal ballot is cast and only one legal ballot is counted. Nothing more. Nothing less,” said Hice.
“You hear so many politicians that say I’m going to roll up my sleeves and get to work. If you notice, I don’t wear sleeves, so I’m ready to go to work today because that’s the way life is,” Walker said. “Herschel Walker don’t look like a politician, Hershel Walker don’t dress like a politician. Herschel Walker don’t sound like a politician. But Herschel Walker is running for Senate.”
“Eight months later, we have not had one single decision from the current occupant of the White House that has been in the best interest of the United States. Every decision has been harmful and destructive. That is why we are in the fight of our life,” Hice said.
Trump also praised a U.S. service member and Warner Robins native Lance Corporal Hunter Ian Clark. Clark was photographed pulling an Afghan baby across the Kabul airport wall. The former President invited Clark up to speak at the podium.
“It’s definitely probably one of the greatest things I’ve done in my entire life,” Clark said.
From another 13WMAZ story about Senator Burt Jones (R-Jackson):
“I’m honored that President Trump is coming and endorsing my campaign for lieutenant governor. He’s coming because Georgia is on his mind and I think he’s coming to support those who have always supported him,” said Jones.
“I’m one of the ones that was with him early and stayed with him when everybody else was turning their back on him,” he said.
“I’m loving the fact that even though we had a situation where there were a lot of our voters that were upset with the election cycle; we got an opportunity to engage a lot more people,” he said.
“We need to get law and order back as a priority in this state,” he said. “You see what’s going on in the city of Atlanta right now, you got the residents of Buckhead wanting to split away from the City of Atlanta because crime has gotten so bad. We got to do things to help recruit, promote and retain law enforcement officers because it is happening there too in Bibb County, it’s a bad situation in Bibb County.”
“People always ask me what qualifies me to run for this office,” [U.S. Senate candidate Herschel] Walker said. “And you know what qualified me to run, is because I love America, and I’m going to fight for America.”
Some have noted that nominating a Black Republican like Walker offers the GOP the best chance to knock off Warnock, who is also Black. But Walker’s association with Trump — the two have been friends for decades and Walker was a prominent surrogate for the then-president in 2020 — has many GOP strategists worried.
[T]he former president’s longtime friend made clear he is aligned with Trump.
“I want to be a great leader like him when I get to that Senate seat,” Walker said.
From the Capitol Beat News Service via the Rome News Tribune:
“The people we elect to office shouldn’t be asked, do you love America? If you don’t love America, you shouldn’t be running for office. We have to be accountable for ourselves.”
“Let’s worry about the United States,” Walker said. “Let’s put people back to work. We can be compassionate but we have to take care of our people at home first.”
U.S. Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Rome, drew cheers two and a half hours before Trump’s appearance, shaking hands while holding an “Impeach Biden” sign. She has two declared GOP challengers in the April, 25, 2022, primary — Mark Clay and Jennifer Strahan.
Chants of “Impeach Biden” also greeted Greene on stage. “Let’s talk about Democrats. They’re communists,” Greene said. “We need to close our borders. It’s time to say, Americans only.”
A panel of the United States Court of Appeals for the 11th Circuit said it may wait for a Supreme Court decision before making its own decision on Georgia’s “hearbeat” abotion legislation, according to the Associated Press via the Statesboro Herald.
The U.S. Supreme Court is set to hear arguments in December on an attempt by Mississippi to overturn the high court’s decision in Roe v. Wade, which affirmed the right to an abortion. Mississippi’s law would ban abortions later than 15 weeks into a pregnancy.
A three-judge panel of the 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals heard arguments Friday on whether it should overturn a lower court ruling that permanently blocked a 2019 Georgia law that would have banned most abortions once a “detectable human heartbeat” is present. As early as six weeks into a pregnancy, before many women realize they’re expecting, cardiac activity can be detected by ultrasound in cells within an embryo that will eventually become the heart. Abortion is currently available in Georgia up to 20 weeks into pregnancy.
Circuit Chief Judge William Pryor asked lawyers for both sides whether the case should be stayed until the Supreme Court rules in the Mississippi case. Attorneys for both sides said they would be fine with that.
“I think that’s the prudent way to proceed,” Pryor said. “You’re both saying you don’t have a problem with that. Don’t you agree, though, that that’s really what we ought to do? I mean it’s not every day that … we can allow the Supreme Court to do some work for us.”
U.S. District Judge Steve Jones ruled in July 2020 that the law was unconstitutional. The state appealed to the 11th U.S. Circuit.
Gwinnett County Magistrate Judge Laura Tate, sitting as a Superior Court Judge, held that Gwinnett County Tax Commissioner Tiffany Porter must collect property taxes for the City of Grayson, according to the AJC.
A state law enacted earlier this year to prevent some tax commissioners from charging cities a personal fee to issue tax bills is constitutional, according to a ruling by Judge Laura Tate. In her decision, Tate wrote that Porter will have to honor a tax-collection agreement made between Gwinnett County and Grayson, which requires her to handle property tax collections for the city without additional compensation.
“I believe in the judge’s ruling,” Grayson Mayor Allison Wilkerson told The Atlanta Journal-Constitution. “I look forward to working with Commissioner Porter and her staff in getting the City of Grayson’s tax bills out.”
Gov. Brian Kemp signed Senate Bill 201 into law earlier this year. The law stops tax commissioners in select counties from negotiating tax contracts with cities to increase their own pay and instead gives responsibility for negotiations to county commissions.
The state law currently only affects Fulton and Gwinnett because it only applies to counties with more than 50,000 tax parcels or 14 or more cities within them. Other tax commissioners in Georgia also raise their salaries by charging cities per-parcel fees for municipal tax collection.
Porter challenged the constitutionality of the law since it currently only affects two counties. [Porter’s attorney] Sears argued on Porter’s behalf that the state Legislature “denied (Porter) freedom of contract and attempted to change the method by which tax collectors and commissioners have been paid for over a century.”
Carr and Grayson City Attorney Lee Thompson argued that the law does not unconstitutionally target any particular tax commissioners. Tate agreed in her ruling.
“(Porter) only objects to the Agreement between Gwinnett County and the City of Grayson because it does not provide her any additional compensation for collecting taxes for the City of Grayson,” Judge Tate wrote. “While the Tax Commissioner may not like this decision, the Legislature has given Gwinnett County the right to make the decision regarding compensation.”
The Georgia House Committee on Crisis in Prisons heard testimony about conditions in the state prison system, according to the Valdosta Daily Times.
In a 2020 GDC report, the agency noted that retaining correctional officers continued to be a challenge, noting that two-thirds of the agency’s separations were correctional officers, resulting in a 43% increase in correctional officer turnover. Correctional officers, in general, supervise and monitor inmates to ensure rules and protocols are being enforced.
However, after CNHI emailed questions relating to correctional officer protocols, evaluations, etc., the department declined email responses, stating the questions related to the active Department of Justice investigation into the Georgia prison system.
A correctional officer at Arrendale State Prison testified on staffing issues anonymously via phone at the prison committee hearing by way of State Rep. Josh McLaurin, D-Sandy Springs.
From 2001-18, 75 inmate deaths reported in Georgia’s state and federal prisons were attributed to homicide, according to Bureau of Justice statistics. In 2020-21 alone, more than 40 inmates deaths have been attributed to murder or suspected murder.
The Southern Center for Human Rights sent a letter to DOJ in September 2020 asking the department to investigate the prisons’ “deplorable” conditions, referencing the increasing murder and suicide rates, and neglect of persons with psychiatric disabilities.
While the DOJ investigates the state’s prisons, Rep. Kim Schofield, D-Atlanta, wants to hold GDC leadership accountable through passage of a proposed state bill, the Accountability In Corrections Act. The Act would allow staff and offenders to challenge GDC actions before the Office of Administrative Hearings.
While individual jails around the country have been under investigation by the DOJ in the past, Alabama joins Georgia and at least two other state prison systems (Louisiana and Mississippi) currently under DOJ investigation, according to DOJ’s special litigation website.
Former Brunswick District Attorney Jackie Johnson (R) was accused of mishandling other racially charged cases, according to WTOC.
Almost a month after former Brunswick District Attorney Jackie Johnson was arrested on charges related to the investigation of the Ahmaud Arbery case, families came together on Saturday at the Glynn County Courthouse to discuss the cases involving their loved ones that they say Johnson mishandled and covered up.
Arbery’s family joined in support, listening to the stories of Kelsey Rayner, Sr. and Jerrod Tyre.
Rayner’s family says Kelsey died slowly in 2017 while at the Appling County Jail and suggests the guards didn’t do anything to help him. Johnson decided not to pursue criminal charges.
Tyre’s family says Jerrod died in 2015 when a Wayne County Sheriff deputy shot him after spotting a gun in his hand. Tyre’s dad says a jury unanimously decided his death was an “unjustified homicide,” but Johnson declined to press charges.
“We’re looking for justice from the Sheriff Mark Melton, to Jackie Johnson, to the correctional guards that was in the jailhouse that neglected him. The family is looking for justice,” said Edward Rayner, Kelsey Rayner’s brother.
Georgia saw a large number of health insurance signups during the “Obamacare” open enrollment period, according to the Associated Press via WTVM.
Between February 15 and August 15, a little more than 147,000 people in the state selected an ACA health plan. That’s according to a report by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services that was released on Sept. 15. During the same period last year, about 41,000 people in Georgia signed up.
Other states that use the HealthCare.gov platform also saw spikes in new enrollees as the Biden administration expanded ACA tax credits and the COVID pandemic surged again.
The Georgia Department of Public Health will roll out booster shots of the COVID-19 vaccine, according to 13WMAZ.
COVID boosters in Georgia will be available under guidelines at health department vaccination locations starting on Monday, Sept. 27.
Under the guidance of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and the Advisory Committee for Immunization Practices (ACIP), here are the following recommendations for the booster shots:
• People 65 years and older, and residents in long-term care settings should receive a Pfizer-BioNTech booster shot at least 6 months after their primary two doses of the Pfizer-BioNTech shot.
• People ages 50-64 with underlying medical conditions should receive a Pfizer-BioNTech booster shot at least 6 months after their primary two doses of the Pfizer-BioNTech shot.
• People ages 18-49 with underlying medical conditions may receive a Pfizer-BioNTech booster shot at least 6 months after their primary two doses of the Pfizer-BioNTech shot based on their individual benefits and risks.
• People ages 18-64 who are at an increased risk for COVID exposure and transmission due to occupational or institutional factors may receive a Pfizer-BioNTech booster shot at least 6 months after their primary two doses of the Pfizer-BioNTech shot based on their individual benefits and risks.
Northeast Georgia’s District 2 Public Health has announced they will begin offering booster doses of the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine for select individuals following a recommendation by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
The booster dose will only be given to those who received the Pfizer vaccine at the time of their original vaccination. The Moderna and Johnson & Johnson vaccines have not been approved for booster doses. However, both are expected to submit data to the FDA in support of booster doses in the coming weeks.
District 2 will re-open mass vaccination sites in most of its 13 county district on Monday, Sept. 27. These vaccination sites will offer all doses of the Pfizer vaccine, including the booster dose, as well as the first and second doses of the Moderna vaccine and the single-dose J&J vaccine.
All sites will be vaccinating every other Saturday, while the Hall and Forsyth County locations will be vaccinating every Saturday beginning Oct. 3.
Check out the AccessWDUN article for more information on local vaccination sites.
Statesboro will continue giving away $50 gift cards for vaccine recipients, according to the Statesboro Herald.
The next free vaccination opportunity, with gift cards available, will be held this Tuesday, Sept. 28, from 9 a.m. until 1 p.m. at City Hall, 50 East Main Street. It is open to people 12 years old and up, with those in the 12-17 age group required to be accompanied by a parent or guardian who will give vaccination permission.
Then two more vaccination clinics, with the city-purchased gift cards potentially available, are slated for Oct. 9, a Saturday, at Luetta Moore Park, and Oct. 23, also a Saturday, at City Hall. City officials said the Bulloch County Health Department has agreed to assist with all of these.
“I know we’ve all got COVID fatigue, but COVID is not getting tired,” Mayor Jonathan McCollar said Tuesday evening. “COVID is still very serious. If you have not gotten the shot, get the shot. It’s safe. There’s a lot of myths, rumors and lies in relation to the vaccination. Get the vaccination; it’s saving lives.”
But the council did take unanimous action to make larger vaccination rewards available to the city government’s own employees. That move adds at least $250 to the holiday bonus check of each employee who presents proof of vaccination and will increase that to $500 if a goal of having at least 80% of the city workforce vaccinated is met by Nov. 15.
Riceboro Mayor Joseph Harris died from complications related to COVID, according to 13WMAZ.
He was only 35 years old.
“In addition to serving as mayor, he was also a minister and educator with the Liberty County School System,” the statement said.
West Central Health District Health Director Dr. Beverly Townsend discussed the future of COVID, according to the Ledger-Enquirer.
Townsend is Columbus’ top public health official and is involved in serving 29 Georgia counties. Her department works to provide public health recommendations to communities based on the best information they have at the time, but Townsend is quick to admit that as scientists learn more about COVID, those suggestions may shift.
Q: What are you hearing from local hospitals about their situations, and do you feel they have what they need to continue responding to this pandemic?
A: I think the pandemic has been very overwhelming for the healthcare system in general, so long-term sustainability can’t be at the rate at which we are going currently. I don’t know specifics about each hospital’s inside informationBut ICU beds are not available. Staff is not available to take care of the people who are there. And it’s not just COVID. COVID certainly takes up a large percentage of the beds that are occupied now, but there are people who have other ongoing disease states, heart attacks. They have surgeries, and there’s trauma that comes in. There’s people who need kidney dialysis. There’s people who have all kinds of stroke, cancer and all other kinds of emergencies that exist. There’s no room there for all of them that need support and need healthcare.
Q: What is the most concerning thing about the continuing transmission of COVID and the possibility of variants coming along?
A: I think the most important thing that we need to recognize is that the more people who are unvaccinated and who don’t have defenses to fight off the virus will give COVID a stronghold to mutate. Therefore, the virus is mutating, so it can survive. So until we have a defense against that in a large enough portion of the population, it’s going to continue to occur. We’ve seen variants in other diseases, especially the flu, but the flu vaccine is reformulated every year to fight those variants. And the COVID vaccine is obviously paralleling that particular response. There will be a need for the vaccinations to also mirror some of those developments, but we don’t have enough people in the population vaccinated for herd immunity to prevent the variants from being stronger and surviving.
Q: Is there anything else about the current COVID-19 situation that you feel people in Columbus need to know?
A: COVID has come to live with us over the last year and a half, and we have to learn to live with it because with the actions of the community, it is not going away and it’s getting stronger. So, we’re going to have to find a way to combat and live with it. Hopefully not to the death of so many more people that we’ve had in the last year and a half.
Randolph County public schools will go virtual again this week, according to WTVM.
The district says the return to virtual learning is necessary because most of its students are bus riders and it is nearly impossible to do an appropriate contact tracing grid and isolation.
Students receiving in-person learning will return to school on Monday, October 4.
The Clayton County Board of Education will resume in-person meetings, according to the AJC.
The governing body will hold its work session at 6 p.m. in the district’s Administration Complex at 1058 Fifth Avenue in Jonesboro. The public is invited, but will be required to undergo a temperature check as well as discuss their safety actions surrounding COVID-19. Social distancing will also be practiced.
State Senator Jason Anavitarte (R-Paulding County) is advocating for a statue of U.S. Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas on the state Capitol grounds, according to the Polk Standard Journal.
“The grounds of the Georgia Capitol should be a place where visitors can connect with their elected officials, as well as a place that provides opportunities to learn about Georgia history,” Anavitarte said. “The grounds of the Georgia Capitol currently include statues and monuments to many notable Georgians. Justice Clarence Thomas, as a Georgia native and as a dedicated civil servant with nearly 30 years of service on the Supreme Court of the United States, it is only fitting and proper that a statue of him be displayed at the Capitol.”
“Justice Thomas is only the second African American United States Supreme Court Justice and only the fourth from the State of Georgia. I urge the General Assembly to work with all relevant partners in order to have this statue constructed and installed as soon as is practical.”
The Higher Education Subcommittee of the State House Appropriations Committee heard testimony about workforce needs in aviation, according to the Capitol Beat News Service.
Few Georgians realize that aerospace is the Peach State’s second largest manufacturing industry or that Delta Air Lines is Atlanta’s second largest employer.
But now, that lofty status is being threatened by shortages of both pilots and aviation technicians. Both are critical if aviation is to remain one of Georgia’s leading industries, said state Rep. David Knight, R-Griffin.
“If an aircraft is not worthy, nothing else matters,” said Knight, chairman of the House Appropriations subcommittee that oversees state spending on higher education. “If you don’t have pilots, they can be airworthy, but they sit on the ground.”
Knight suggested the aviation industry should be willing to help the state with the financial support the colleges need, at least in their marketing efforts. It’s only fair considering the schools are turning out pilots and aviation technicians to fill jobs at companies like Delta and Savannah-based Gulfstream Aerospace, he said.
“They need to step up,” Knight said. “We need to make sure to keep aviation as one of the top industries in Georgia and see that it grows.”
Increasing port traffic is also lifting local businesses on Georgia’s coast, according to the Savannah Morning News.
The continued boom of Georgia Ports Authority’s operations in Savannah – container volume has increased more than 200% between 2006 and 2020, with this year on track to break last year’s record-shattering numbers – has boosted related industries (trucking, logistics and manufacturing) in recent years, driving billions of dollars in investments in Savannah’s three-county region and stretching the labor market thin.
Port City Logistics, a locally owned logistics firm created in 2001, is in the midst of an $80 million, one million sq. foot warehouse expansion. Across the region, more than 11 million sq. feet in warehouse space is under construction, according to a quarterly report from real estate broker Colliers International.
Port City’s growth tracks with the Savannah Port’s growth. The private company started with six employees and 5,000 sq. feet of warehouse space. When the expansion is complete, they’ll employee 400 people and have more than 3 million sq. feet.
The boom of business has stretched the labor market to its capacity. Unemployment for Chatham County is 3.4%, which is a return to pre-pandemic numbers.
While it means most people are back to work, it also points to the growing labor shortage across all of Savannah’s top industries.
Gwinnett County Commissioners are working on plans to dole out nearly $182 million dollars in federal COVID relief funding, according to the AJC.
The county plans to spend most of the money on “equity-focused services” to help underserved areas, addressing negative economic affects of the pandemic, public health responses and recouping lost revenue.
“To ensure we are strategic and impactful, several processes have been put in place to address urgent and long-term needs,” said Board of Commission Chairwoman Nicole Love Hendrickson in a statement. “We are prioritizing county residents, with an equity-focused approach to reach our underserved residents.”
Most of the $61 million allocated for equity-focused services will go toward expanding the Centerville one-stop center and creating an additional one in another area of the county still to be determined. One-stop centers offer a wide range of wellness and recreational services to residents under one roof.
The $17.27 million earmarked for public health response will go toward a variety of pandemic-related expenses, including continuation of vaccine sites at Eastside Medical Center and Gwinnett Place Mall, expansion of mobile clinic sites and funding COVID-19 testing and tracing.
The county also expects using some of the funds in this category for vaccine incentives, giving $100 prepaid debit cards to individuals who get vaccinated. It tentatively plans to spend $250,000 on these incentives, which would pay about 2,500 people to get shots.
The county will use about $28 million to recoup revenue lost as a result of the pandemic. Tax revenue from hotels and motels declined during the pandemic, Alexzulian said, as well as fines and forfeitures when the court system briefly halted.
Athens-Clarke County Commissioners voted to terminate internal auditor Stephanie Maddox, according to the Athens Banner Herald.
As auditor, Maddox’s duties include reviewing and analyzing operations and fiscal procedures as well as the organizational structures and responsibilities of Athens-Clarke departments.
In a unanimous vote, Maddox was removed from her position. Commissioners Ovita Thornton and Mike Hamby were not present for the vote. Maddox provided a statement following her termination, saying that she was “immensely disappointed.”
Mayor Kelly Girtz declined to comment on the vote due to the confidentiality of personnel matters.
In June, commissioners reappointed Maddox to her position as an internal auditor, which has a two-year term. They voted 9-1 to keep Maddox, with Allison Wright voted against the reappointment, at the time.
This is a very complex story, and if you want to know more, read the Athens Banner Herald’s story.
Republican Jeanne Seaver campaigned for Lieutenant Governor in Brunswick, according to The Brunswick News.
Jeanne Seaver, Republican candidate for Georgia lieutenant governor, made a campaign stop in Brunswick on Thursday accompanied by former U.S. Sen. David Perdue.
Seaver said she decided to challenge incumbent Republican Lt. Gov. Geoff Duncan in 2022 even though she supported his campaign to win the office three years ago. Duncan drew the ire of many Republicans for calling Joe Biden “president elect” after the election results were in during a time when President Donald Trump and supporters were crying foul.
Seaver said she is a strong supporter of a spaceport in Camden County for the jobs it will bring.
“It will have a huge economic impact on Georgia,” she said. “We have to find ways to create jobs.”
Seaver said her background as a single mother gives her a good understanding of issues concerning women in the state.
“Women are ticked off,” she said. “There are no (statewide) elected women in the state. They need a voice, and they don’t feel like they have one.”
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