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Page 16 NOVEMBER 7,2010 StarNews www.starnewsga.com
ELECTIONS from frontpage
the people that supported the write-in effort,”
he said. “We couldn’t be more pleased with
the effort everyone put forth.”
Wilson said he is glad that the election
“turned out the way it did” and that it’s over.
He doesn’t have a problem with his oppo
nent or the fact that he ran, Wilson said, but
he didn’t see the value in what he perceived
to be negative ads.
“I didn’t like the sort of negative ads,” he
said. “Maybe I shouldn’t have taken it per
sonally, but 1 did. He said I let the people
down in District 4 and I didn’t appreciate
that. My daughter read it and asked me what
he was talking about.”
Wilson said he has shown during his can
didacy that he doesn’t “believe in all that
negative stuff’ and that he thinks running a
clean campaign is important when seeking a
public office.
As for Watters’ remarks about Wilson not
communicating well with his constituents,
Wilson said h'e has always made himself
available to the citizens of District 4 and of
Carroll County as a whole. In fact, he was
the first commissioner in the county to put
his phone number and email address on the
county website.
“If somebody calls me from my district, I
answer it,” he' said. “I’d rather talk to some
one directly than to do it through email, but if
someone emails me I am glad to respond that
way as well.” *
Wilson said he appreciates the people in
District 4 who went to the polls to Cast a vote
for him.
“I want to say thank you,” he said. “We’re
going to keep on doing what we’ve been
doing and go from there.”
In the race for State Labor commissioner,
Republican Mark Butler won with an over
whelming 68.46 percent, or 18,602 votes.
Hid Democratic opponent, Darryl Hicks,
received 27.16 percent of the vote, or 7,379
votes. Libertarian candidate Will Costa gar
nered 4.36 of the vote, or 1,184 votes. Eight
write-in votes were also cast in the race.
In other local races, Sandra Morris beat
out incumbent Dorothy Burton-Cailaway
with 52.52 percent of the vote, or 1,740
votes, to win the BOE District 2 seat.
Burton-Cailaway received 1,564 votes, or
47.21 percent. Also, in the District 7 BOE
race, Jon Anderson won with 57.87 percent
of the vote, or 1,670 votes. Hi's opponent, Ed
Jenkins, received 41.44 percent of the vote,
or 1,196 votes.
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The continuing glum unemployment
numbers for the Atlanta metro area
District 4 Commission candidate Jim Watters is greeted with a hug and
smiles by family and friends as he arrived in the elections room early in the
evening. By evening’s end, Watters had lost to incumbent John Wilson.
Photo by Sam Gentry
Newly elected Carroll County School Board member Sandra Morris,
center, with well wishers late Tuesday evening in the elections room, College
Street, Carrollton. She defeated long time school board member Dorothy
Bur m-Callaway. Photo by Sam Gentry
by Carole Scott Spalding, and Walton counties. In August, it
The unemployment rate in the Atlanta was 10.3 percent.
MSA (Metropolitan Statistical Area) was The seasonally adjusted unemployment
10.0 percent in September, 2010. This area rate for the state of Georgia was also 10.0
includes the following counties: Barrow, percent. However, because the unemploy-
Bartow, Butts, Carroll, Cherokee, Clayton, ment rate is the percent of the labor force that
Cobb, Coweta, Dawson, DeKalb, Douglas, is unemployed, and the size of the labor
Fayette, Forsyth, Fulton, Gwinnett, Haralson, force declined, some of the improvement
Heard, Henry, Jasper, Lamar, Meriwether, was caused by a decline in the size of the
Newton, Paulding, Pickens, Pike, Rockdale, gee UNEMPLOYMENT page 31
Carroll emc
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