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Kemp's first stop is Dawson County
Gubernatorial candidate makes pitch to local voters
By Allie Dean
adean@dawsonnews.com
Brian Kemp, Republican candi
date for governor and Georgia
Secretary of State, was greeted by a
hundred eager faces when he
stepped off the bus Monday morn
ing in Dawson County for the first
stop on a weeklong campaign tour.
Local elected officials, law
enforcement and emergency servic
es personnel as well as dozens of
Dawson residents gathered Oct. 1
at John Megel Chevrolet on Ga.
400 to hear from Kemp, who faces
Democrat Stacey Abrams and
LibertarianTed Metz on Nov. 6.
The “Putting Georgians First”
bus tour will hit 27 counties this
week.
Kemp, who lives in Athens,
touched on a few key points in a
brief address to the crowd, includ
ing taxes, education and law
enforcement. He said if elected, he
plans to support further tax cuts
like the billion-dollar tax cut that
the state legislature passed earlier
this year.
“I’m planning as governor to sign
another tax cut to continuate that
this coming year,” Kemp said.
State lawmakers cut the state
income tax rate in response to the
federal tax cut bill signed into law
by President Donald Trump in
2017. Changes at the national level
would have created a huge windfall
for Georgia state government —
practically creating a tax increase at
the state level.
Republican lawmakers in Atlanta
acted to head off the windfall by
passing the state’s first income tax
cut in decades, though rates for
most Georgians and the revenue for
state government will be close to
the same as they were before the
See Kemp 17A
Allie Dean Dawson County News
Brian Kemp poses with the Sizemore family in
Dawson County Oct. 1 on the first stop of his
Putting Georgians First bus tour.
Photos by Allie Dean Dawson County News
A woman takes in a black, white and red quilt made by Heart in Hand Quilt Guild President Sylvia
LaFalce.
Ousted mayor
appeals to Ga.
Supreme Court
By Allie Dean
adean@dawsonnews.com
A lengthy case between the City of Dawsonville and
former Mayor James Grogan will con
tinue next week as both sides head to
the Georgia Supreme Court Oct. 10 to
present oral arguments.
Grogan, 76, was removed from
office in May of 2017 by the city
council and has been fighting the
decision ever since, gaining no trac
tion in the Dawson County Superior
Court where his appeal was denied
last October.
To add salt to the wound, Grogan was court ordered
in March to pay $25,060.88 back to the city for the
salary and benefits he received during the five months
he was appealing his termination by the city council.
See Mayor 16A
Grogan
Quilt Guild holds annual show
Quilts by members of the Heart in Hand Quilt
Guild will be on display at the Bowen Center for
the Arts through Oct. 25.
By Allie Dean
adean@dawsonnews.com
The most visited show
each year at the Bowen
Center for the Arts in
Dawsonville isn’t what
you’d expect.
Visitors from all over
the southeast will travel
to the rock building by
the busload to see what
the Bowen has in store
for the month of
October.
The draw? Quilts, and
lots of them.
Ginny Greenwood,
executive director of the
Bowen, said that around
500 people visit the
show each year and that
many or more are
expected this year.
“We get at least 10 to
20 visitors a day, and
three big groups have
already scheduled vis
its,” she said.
Members of the
Dawsonville Heart in
Hand Quilt Guild have
been working since last
November on new quilts
and 75 of the detailed
works of art from 27 of
the guild’s members are
now on display for all to
see through Oct. 25.
Jackie Somerville is
chair of the quilt show
this year, and said work
on the show starts six
months in advance with
publicity and reaching
out to various maga
zines, quilt guilds and
the Georgia Quilt
Council.
The only criteria for
See Quilts 12A
BOC presents
’19 budget plan
By Allie Dean
adean@dawsonnews.com
More new personnel than the county has seen in a long
time could be approved by the Dawson County Board of
Commissioners when they set the 2019 budget later this
year, according to a presentation by Chairman Billy
Thurmond last week.
Thurmond presented his recommended 2019 budget to
the rest of the board on Sept. 27, and recommended the
board approve 23 of the 42 positions that department
heads requested during budget hearings in August. An
additional position has already been granted in the form
of an administrative assistant for the public defender’s
office.
See Budget 16A
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