Four Special Elections held Tomorrow!

Tuesday May 11th, there will be four Special Elections held in Georgia.

One House seat, two Senate seats and one Congressional seat.

Let’s start with the Congressional Seat- GA-9th

Held by Nathan Deal until his resignation the day of the Health Care vote, March 26th.

We joke about races with lots of folks in them as “clown cars”, but in this case it truly is a clown car. Eight Candidates, six republicans, one democrat and one independent.

I will be very curious to see what percentage Mr. Moon gets. Probably no better year to run as an independent.

I find Mr. Moon fascinating because as he says “he’s the first person in 40 years to have gained ballot access as an independent” ( he must mean for Congress). A quick review of his site tells me he’s fringe, with statements like this ‘A child born in the United States to non-citizens is not a citizen” but wants us all to believe he’d vote NO! on anything that’s “unconstitutional”, I’m no constitutional scholar but…..my head can’t wrap around the contradictions.

Next up is House Seat in Dist 12, vacated due to “clown car”, highlights here:

Jerry Nally- Democrat: Looks like Santa and presents himself as a “reluctant” candidate. Oh dear.

Jasperse- Republican who worked as a County Extension Agent for 29 years “gets” that water is a huge issue for this state and addressed it- yay Rick.

Moss -Republican dropping the Regan bomb inside of two sentences and allusions to violence with this statement on front page of website “I want to be your conservative linebacker in the State House. I will defend our conservative values at all cost”. Seriously back up just a little-the Gold Dome is bare knuckle enough without this kind of language.

Senate District 42.

This solidly Democratic seat was held by now Ambassador David Adelman. Four folks in this race, two Democrats, one Independent and one Libertarian. But all the focus has been on the candidate with the famous last name, Carter.

I’m a friend of Jason’s and wish him all the best, but will again be keeping my eye on anyone calling them self an Independent.

Senate District 49 highlights, three candidates, 2-R’s and one Libertarian in a seat vacated by Lee Hawkins R-running in the 9th Congressional clown car.

No Dems running but the Libertarian intrigues me since I remember him from the PSC race in 2008. Again, do the “other” party candidates peel off votes from the GOP? It’s a question we’ll get a partial answer to tomorrow.

All the names, all the races listed below the flip. You do your own “Googling”.. I got stuff to do.

I’m curious if anyone has had any interaction with any of these folks, if so what was it?

Qualified Candidates for House District 12

Candidate

Rick Jasperse

89 Apple Valley Farm Lane

Jasper, GA 30143

Republican

Truett Moss II

3662 Dews Pond Rd.

Calhoun, GA 30701

Republican

Jerry Nally

28 Bagwell Lane

Rydal, GA 30171

Democrat

Senate District 42

Jason Carter

562 Clifton Rd

Atlanta, GA 30307

Democrat

David Montane

862 Wheatfields Place

Decatur, GA 30030

Libertarian

Steve Patrick

1367 Sheridan Rd

Atlanta, GA 30324

Independent

Tom Stubbs

607 Avery Street

Decatur, GA 30030

Democrat

Senate District 49

Brandon Givens

1381 Longview Dr

Gainesville, GA 30501

Libertarian

Butch Miller

4618 Windsor Dr

Flowery Branch, GA 30542

Republican

Jimmy Norman

6551 Tahiti Way

Flowery Branch, GA 30542

Republican

9th Congressional Clown Car

Chris Cates

11 Timber Grace Court

Blairsville, GA 30512

Republican

Mike Freeman

5194 Glenstone Ct

Gainesville, GA 30504

Democrat

Tom Graves

475 Craig Rd.

Ranger, GA 30734

Republican

Lee Hawkins

4710 Jim Hood Rd.

Gainesville, GA 30506

Republican

Bert Loftman

8249 Cox Mountain Dr.

Jasper, GA 30143

Republican

Eugene Moon

3407 Lake Ridge Place

Gainesville, GA 30506

Independent

Bill Stephens

6730 Waterbury Way

Cumming, GA 30040

Republican

Steve Tarvin

778 W 12th St

Chickamauga, GA 30707

Republican