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Georgia Attorney General
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Commerce at the chamber’s
2013 Fall Gala at LeeBrant
Jewelers on Nov. 7.
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Metro Atlanta’s water problems could
be addressed by striking a deal, allowing
Chattanooga to claim a second Atlanta
airport in return for water from the Ten
nessee River, Georgia Attorney Gener
al Sam Olens told Dunwoody business
leaders.
“Sooner or later, we need to look at
a second airport. Chattanooga wants to
be that second airport. I’m interested in
helping them be that second airport in
return for one hell of a pipe into Geor
gia,” Olens said, answering a question
on how Georgia could get a share of wa
ter from the Tennessee River to supple
ment the Chattahoochee River as metro
Atlanta’s chief water supply.
Olens told the more than 75 cham
ber members attending the organiza
tion’s 2013 Fall Gala at LeeBrant Jew
elers on Nov. 7 that negotiations over
water from the Tennessee River should
be political, not legal, actions.
“This is a really good issue for a sec
ond-term governor, and it’s a really good
issue for other state’s second-term gover
nor,” said Olens, who chaired the Cobb
County Commission and the Atlanta
Regional Commission before becoming
attorney general.
Besides, he said, Georgia already was
embroiled in lawsuits with South Caro
lina and Florida, so it might not be wise
to engage in legal action against Tennes
see. “I need free passage to at least one
state,” he joked.
Olens said enforcement of tougher
state laws against “pill mills” is making
a difference in Georgia.
Olens said that after Florida tight
ened its laws dealing with prescription
drugs, problems spilled into Georgia.
“We went from 10 to 140 pill mills in
the course of two years in our state,” he
said. “This was going right up the inter
state. It was drug dealing.”
Jester enters race for state
school superintendent
BY MELISSA WEINMAN
melissaweinman@reporternewspapers.net
Former DeKalb school board mem
ber Nancy Jester announced that she
will run for Georgia school superinten
dent.
Jester, who represented Dunwoody
and Brookhaven in District 1 for the
DeKalb County Board of Education,
said she is running to reform education
in Georgia. She made her announce
ment Nov. 11 at Brook Run Park.
“More classroom, less bureaucracy.
That’s what Georgians deserve and that’s
what they’ll get from me,” Jester said.
Jester said she would like for Georgia
to spend less money on administration.
She said Georgia spends more per pu
pil than many neighboring states, such
as Mississippi, Texas and Arkansas, yet
has a lower high school graduation rate.
“That has to stop,” Jester said. “Bu
reaucrats do not teach children.”
Jester left the DeKalb school board in
March after she and four other school
board members were suspended by Gov.
Nathan Deal. The Southern Associa
tion of Colleges and Schools placed the
DeKalb County School System on ac
creditation probation.
Jester says it was her own investiga
tion of the system’s budgeting practices
that led to the accreditation agency’s in
volvement. “I’m really proud of my re
cord,” Jester said. “I uncovered financial
malfeasance in DeKalb.”
She said she was willing to sacrifice
her seat on the school board because, “it
wasn’t about me.”
“It demonstrates my commitment
to telling the truth to taxpayers,” Jester
said.
Republicans Richard Woods, Fitz
Johnson and Matt Shultz are also running
for the seat. State Rep. Alisha Thomas
Morgan is the only Democrat in the race.
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