Friday, November 8, 2002
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Friday, November 8, 2002 |
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DeMoss, Tarbutton win commission seats By MONROE
ROARK
Tuesday was a busy day for voters throughout Coweta County, as two County Commission posts and several municipal elected offices were decided in addition to statewide and Congressional seats. In the District 3 race for County Commission, Republican Larry DeMoss got nearly 76 percent of the vote in his win over Democrat Willie Pritchett. DeMoss defeated incumbent Lawrence Nelms in the August primary. In District 2, Republican Greg Tarbutton defeated Democrat John Houston with nearly 64 percent of the vote. Tarbutton will replace Commission Chairman Jim McGuffey, who decided not to seek another term. With the exception of Secretary of State Cathy Cox, who got 49 percent of the Coweta vote to 47.5 percent for Charlie Bailey, Coweta voters overwhelmingly chose Republican candidates in statewide races. Saxby Chambliss (U.S. Senate), Sonny Perdue (governor), Steve Stancil (lieutenant governor), Shannon Goessling (attorney general), Deanna Strickland (agriculture commissioner), John Oxendine (insurance commissioner), Kathy Cox (school superintendent), and Richard McGee (labor commissioner) all won in Coweta, most of them by wide margins. Mac Collins will continue to represent most of Coweta County in the U.S. House of Representatives, this time in the 8th District. He racked up 80 percent of the Coweta vote en route to an easy win over Angelos Petrakopoulos. A small portion of the county now lies in the 11th District, and Republican Phil Gingrey won the overall district over Roger Kahn by roughly the same margin as he did in Coweta, about 53 percent. All three state senators representing Coweta Mitch Seabaugh (28th), Daniel Lee (29th) and Bill Hamrick (30th) were unopposed in the general election, as were State House candidates Lynn Westmoreland (86th), Lynn Smith (87th) and Jeff Brown (89th). Tracy Stallings carried 60 percent of the Coweta vote in his quest for the Post 1 seat in the 88th State House district, but the Democrat lost overall to Republican Mark Butler. Same for Democrat Tom Parmer in Post 2, who won Coweta but still lost to Republican Chuck Harper. The Coweta homestead exemption question won by a wide margin, with nearly 82 percent of the voters saying yes. A total of 25,169 ballots were cast countywide, or 56 percent of Coweta's 44,882 registered voters, according to the county's Web site.
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