Mayoral profile: Ellis seeks return to elected office | Elections | Macon.com

C. Jack Ellis was Macon’s mayor from 1999 to 2007, but his current campaign for mayor of the consolidated Macon-Bibb County government is taking him places he’s never had occasion to go before.

He has to appeal to voters outside the city limits in this race, and he plans to do that by making his case to one person at a time.

Though urban and rural residents may come from very different backgrounds, everyone wants to have good public services, safety and opportunities for their children, Ellis said. And providing those will require convincing people that what happens in other neighborhoods also affects them.

“We all should be able to see the big picture,” he said.

Ellis, 67, couldn’t legally seek a third consecutive term as Macon mayor. But after sitting out a term, he ran again in 2011, narrowly losing a runoff to incumbent Mayor Robert Reichert.

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