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Smith announces campaign for District 27
By Kelly Whitmire
kwhitmire@forsythnews.com
A new candidate has
announced he will run for the
District 27 state Senate seat,
though his name should be
familiar to local voters. -
Steve Smith announced this
week Democratic nomination
in the race for the seat. In 2017,
Smith ran as a Democrat in the
District 26 State House of
Representatives seat, which
was won by Marc Morris.
Though Forsyth County is
typically. considered a
Republican stronghold, Smith
said he learned a lot in last
year’s race and was inspired by
the amount of support he
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with smart boards and Chrome Books, where students can work col
laboratively on text and presentation projects. Other areas of the
room contain tables carrying games and activities and materials to
make physical projects. Each of the areas was happily occupied by
one or several students hard at work.
Kelley explained that the lab is equipped with several state-of-the
art pieces of technology, including a 3D Printer, smartboards, com
puters, a green screen and a laser cutter — all available for the stu
dents to use and learn with.
“The jobs they are going to have haven’t been created yet. So if
they have skills in any position, that’s a value,” Kelley said.
During the ceremony, fifth graders Ryan Dooley and Nathan
Tishgarten used their free time to build designs with a set of 3D pens,
which melt plastic into shapes similar to how a hot glue gun func
tions. Both of the boys said that the pens are their favorite part of
coming to the lab.
“I just really like to get out of class and enjoy doing this,” said
Dooley, motioning at his plastic 3D pen design. “It’s hard work, but
coming out and doing this is fun.”
“There’s some things that I’m just really not that interested in,”
said Tishgarten. “I’m interested in the 3D printer, but I haven’t
learned how to get that to work yet, so we’ll see about that.” :
Tribble said that this attitude, of students looking forward to com
ing into the lab, and being willing to try new activities to find things
they like to do, is one of the things they are aiming for.
“We want it to look like play, but a whole lot of other things are
happening, from academics, to addressing what it’s really like to col
laborate with other kids at different grade levels,” Tribble said.
Tribble said that if students are interested in it, they are willing to
see if they can make it happen.
The ribbon was cut at the ceremony by Georgia First Lady Sandra
Deal — herself a former teacher — who spoke at the event about the
importance of fostering innovation in the youth of the state.
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and things that make life better. We want you to create things, think,
figure it out and come up with new ideas. That's how you become
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lot of people that supported me
to run again. I thought this time,
running for a Senate seat, would
cast kind of a wider net for
Democrats and progressives in
the county.” :
Smith is the fourth candidate
to declare for the seat and will
face off against the winner of
the Republican Primary.
Republicans Greg Dolezal, Bill
Fielder and Brian Tam have
announced their candidacy for
the Republican nomination.
In his previous campaign,
Smith said he did not experi
ence the negativity and vitriol
from his opponents that typical
ly goes with campaigns.
“Everybody was just incredi
bly nice, gracious and every
thing. I didn’t really anticipate
that,” Smith said, laughing.
“One of the big takeaways that I
got from running in the fall is
just how great my opponents
were. They were good people.”
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find some parts of state politics
troubling and wanted to give
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Democrats and progressives in
the county a voice.
“There’s a lot of division in
our country -because of the
Trump administration and
things like that, so I'm dis
turbed by the way we talk about
Democrats,” he said. “I'm dis
turbed about this ‘religious lib
erty’ bill that they keep trying
to pass through the state. Let’s
be honest, it’s trying to legalize
discrimination against the
LGTBQ community.” -
* Smith said he felt another fre
quent topic, sanctuary cities, or
cities that do not cooperate with
the national government on
immigration law, had become a
political buzzword and could
apply to Forsyth County.
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“They estimate that in
Forsyth County we have any
where between 10,000 to
20,000 undocumented immi
grants living in Forsyth
County,” he said. “We almost
kind of are a sanctuary city ... I
don’t think ... anyone wants to
let ICE come running through
here and expel 15,000 of our
Forsyth County neighbors.”
Smith is a graduate of
Lassiter High School in
Marietta but grew up in
Oklahoma and lived in Texas,
California and Nevada after
graduating. He works in proper
ty management, is on the board
of trustees at his Roswell
church and has lived in the
county for 10 years.
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