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Maxwell ousts incumbent Dunn; Wells in Aug. 8 runoff with Smith

Tue, 07/18/2006 - 8:41pm

By: Cal Beverly

Attorney Eric Maxwell beat incumbent Fayette County Commission Chairman Greg Dunn in a Tuesday night squeaker by 256 votes out of 11,416 cast, with all but about a hundred military absentee ballots counted.

Incumbent Linda Wells fared better, carrying a lead of 2260 votes into an Aug. 8 runoff with CPA Jack Smith.

Former Fayette County Board of Education member Bob Todd will return in January after handily defeating Frank Oakley for the Post 4 seat 68 percent to 32 percent.

Incumbent Post 5 Board of Education member Lee Wright retained his seat by turning back long-time school system employee Faith Hardnett 59 percent to 41 percent.

Incumbent state Representative Dan Lakly defeated Bill Bonner in the Republican Post 72 race 64 percent to 36 percent. The district lies across Fayette's east-west midsection.

Lakly faces Democratic opposition this fall from Kevin Madden of Peachtree City.

Dunn led Maxwell through much of the evening until late precincts began spelling the end of Dunn’s eight-year career on the board of commissioners.

Maxwell campaigned on a theme of “It’s time for a change.” With all votes now counted, 51 percent of the voters agreed with the Fayetteville attorney.

Maxwell pledged in forums and ads to uphold the current county land use plan and to improve the board's currently contentious relationship with long-time Fayette County Sheriff Randall Johnson.

Wells led throughout the night, ending with 48.33 percent of the vote. Smith followed with 28.57 percent, well ahead of third-place finisher Sam Chapman, who had 23 percent.

According to the Fayette County Elections Office, 16,716 voters cast ballots in both GOP and Democratic primaries locally.

Registered Voters

Submitted by PTC Guy on Wed, 07/19/2006 - 9:57pm.

From the County site on March 21, 2006 there were 62,692.

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Keeping it real and to the core of the issue, not the peripherals.

as I recall,

Submitted by tonto707 on Wed, 07/19/2006 - 9:25pm.

the elections office said recently there are approximately 69,000 registered voters in Fayette County. 16,716 voted on Tuesday, about 24%.

I believe there were about 5,800 in the Horgan/Wilkerson race to replace VanLandingham. That =s about 8.5%, but the turnout on Aug 8 will be considerably more, possibly as much as 15%, or 10,500.

Eric Maxwell set the tone for this year's commission races, ie, "time for a change". Let's work together to complete the change on August 8th!!!

registered voters

Submitted by yellowdog on Wed, 07/19/2006 - 4:49pm.

Cal...do your homework. It's been years since there were only 31,000 registered voters in Fayette. There are well over 60,000 probably closer to 70,000. The overall turn out is about 25% (for both Republican and Democrat primaries)

SEE YA !!

Submitted by Vernon on Wed, 07/19/2006 - 8:12am.

Adios, See Ya, Good-bye, Don't let the door hit you, buh-bye, Don't go away mad - just go away.
Thank goodness the voters of Fayette County decided they were done with Dunn. As a county employee (not in the Sheriff's Office) I am elated. Thank You voters!!!

I told you

Submitted by tonto707 on Wed, 07/19/2006 - 5:15am.

SO!

Question: How do you really spell DUNN? Answer: DONE!!!

Submitted by Fayetteresident on Tue, 07/18/2006 - 10:38pm.

I'm sure it hurt for Cal to report the results, but his support for Dunn no doubt sealed his demise... as well as lost some faithful readers! I for one, will no longer subscribe after the runoff between Wells & Smith! Obviously ETHICS, HONESTY, and INTEGRITY meant more to the citizens of Fayette Co. than Cal gave them credit for! Truth prevailed...cheaters never win...etc., etc...

I GET MINE FREE

Submitted by GloriaG on Wed, 07/19/2006 - 7:51pm.

So, because the editor of the paper supported the other candidate you aren't reading the paper anymore? I assume that means no more blogging from Fayetteresident either?

Thank you Cal

Submitted by Robert W. Morgan on Wed, 07/19/2006 - 5:32am.

Fayetteresident got it right!
Cal supporting Dunn made the difference. And what has to be even more painful (to Cal, maybe Greg too) is that's the only reason Dunn lost at least those 256 votes. It is very clear that way more than 256 people voted against the Cal-supported Dunn than voted for Maxwell. Nice job kingmaker!

Got that right

Submitted by Dr Mathew Autera on Tue, 07/18/2006 - 10:54pm.

And Peter is next!!

Peter may be next Matt

Submitted by Robert W. Morgan on Thu, 07/20/2006 - 5:16am.

But be careful what you wish for - Sam Chapman will not be able to resist the temptation to run against him. What kind of choice is that?

Mr Morgan

Submitted by Dr Mathew Autera on Thu, 07/20/2006 - 8:04am.

Sorry I did not speculate on that you are right. Thanks for bringing that up.

Shhhh

Submitted by Southside on Thu, 07/20/2006 - 6:52am.

Don't even whisper that Robert.

You Folks Are a Stich

Submitted by JJSXU on Wed, 07/19/2006 - 8:30am.

Hope you clean up on C&E Development. When the county turns into Clayton or Henry County Two. The citizens will have you to thank.

Just imagine Horgan or Frady at an ARC meeting. And I don't think the ARC Chairman will be picking either to chair a committee and I doubt Maxwell will have the time and judging from his unflustered personality the patience to run a weekly committee at ARC. Thus he will not present a good option either. Fayette County will no longer have a power seat at the table, we will revert to the county that is too rich, too 19th Century in their thinking to play with the big boys. The land owner in the county will pay the price in the end.

In the end it was all about the Sheriff. Wait till the last shoe falls on that one!!!
Folks will be surprised and shocked

You're obviously one of the three amigo's so.....

Submitted by Southside on Thu, 07/20/2006 - 7:00am.

The change in Fayette County has begun on your watch.

The ARC? I'm not keeping Dunn or anyone else in office just so they can run Metro Atlanta. Let them stay here and lead Fayette. Not rule, just lead.

The Sheriff issue? I'm sure you've thrown every shoe you had at him. So much so that the people are tired of hearing it.

Hopefully, what is about to be cleaned up is Fayette County's reputation in the Atlanta papers. If you continue to trash us there, at least you won't be sitting in office while you do it.

Wow, JJSXU

Submitted by mudcat on Wed, 07/19/2006 - 6:46pm.

Stupid beyond belief. By the way, who cares about the ARC? Is Fayette still a member? Hope not. They are a do nothing agency and we can live without that.
meow

Maybe The ARC

Submitted by Git Real on Wed, 07/19/2006 - 7:43pm.

Maybe the ARC will just kick us out now. Like we give a rip how Dekalb and Gwinnett operate. It kind of reminds me of the guy from Pennsylvania that ran for school board here years ago. His line was always...."This is how we ran our schools in Pennsylvania". That made it clear on how to vote in that race.

C&E Development Hoax

Submitted by PTC Guy on Wed, 07/19/2006 - 2:06pm.

What development?

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Wait till the last shoe

Submitted by rhino on Wed, 07/19/2006 - 9:20am.

Wait till the last shoe falls on that one!!!
Folks will be surprised and shocked

You are still drinking the Kool Aid. We'll be here when last shoe falls. We aren't going anywhere.

the last shoe

Submitted by tsk tsk on Wed, 07/19/2006 - 9:35am.

The last shoe fell when the judge told Dunn he had no case. But Greg pretends he still holds it aloft because he knows some people will believe anything if it's said often enough and with confidence.

AMEN!

Submitted by cmc865 on Wed, 07/19/2006 - 6:32am.

Mr. P's vote cant come soon enough.

Thanks for staying up Cal

Submitted by rhino on Tue, 07/18/2006 - 10:25pm.

Thank you for giving us real time results, Cal.

I know some of the elections didn't go as you wanted. I'd like to be a big enough person to say I'm sorry, but right now I'm not. Maybe I'll be bigger tomorrow. Cool

Maxwell beats Dunn

Submitted by unknowncountyem... on Tue, 07/18/2006 - 9:42pm.

Good bye Mr. Dunn, from the county employees, "You will not be missed!"

Sounds close.

Submitted by McDonoughDawg on Tue, 07/18/2006 - 9:13pm.

I hope Maxwell, if the lead holds, does a good job. I wish him well.

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