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Rucker Pet throwing
festival to support
sheriff’s office K 9 unit
What: The 2nd Annual Rucker Pet Ruff & Tuff 5K and Festival with Hollywood
Feed features SK, Fun Run and Tot Trot races surrounded by a festival atmosphere
to help raise money for the Forsyth County Sheriff’s Office, particularly its K 9
Unit. There will be a dog show with ribbons and trophies for participants, along
with live music and entertainment, food trucks, caricature artists, raffle items, face
painting and bouncy houses for kids and more.
When: Saturday, Nov. 10, from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m.
Where: North Forsyth High School, 3635 Coal Mountain Drive in Cumming.
Cost: $27 for the SK (or $32 on the day of the event), sl7 for Fun Run ($22 on
the day of the event). Rucker Pet is asking for $5 donations to participate in the dog
show.
Contact: 770-633-5511
—Brian Paglia
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is well within the 1 percent threshold
that would allow the runner-up to be
granted a recount once the final results
are certified. ;
On Wednesday, Woodall said
Bourdeaux was “absolutely” in the mar
gin to ask for a recount but didn’t feel it
would have a significant impact on the
race.
“As folks who have gone through that
process know, unless you're really
counting down in the dozens of votes,
it’s unusual for a recount to move a nee
dle more than one or two digits,”
Woodall said. “We're going to let the
provisional ballots come in, [and] that
we’ll keep our three-digit lead across
the finish line.”
Woodall has represented the 7th
District that contains the majority of
Forsyth and Gwinnett counties since
2011. -
In Forsyth County, Woodall earned
about 68 percent of the vote, or 44,887
votes.
“Every candidate in the state looks to
Forsyth for leadership,” he said. “If
you’'re a conservative candidate, you
know your success is closely hinged to
what Forsyth voters do. Yesterday, we
ended with about a 2:1 advantage in
Forsyth, but that’s actually lower than
what we’ve seen historically.”
Woodall said the change doesn’t mean
more conservative voters are changing
parties but instead shows the changing
demographics moving into the county.
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possibility of a December runoff in one
of the nation’s marquee midterm races.
In an interview with WSB Radio on
Thursday, Kemp said he and his cam
paign are declaring victory because it
isn’t possible for Abrams to pick up
enough votes to force a Dec. 4 runoff.
Abrams’ campaign has said there are
still enough uncounted votes to force a
runoff and that they need to pick up
about 15,000 votes to do so.
Kemp said his rival’s campaign is
using “old math.” Without providing
specifics, he said in the radio interview
that the number “is actually more like
30,000 votes.”
The Abrams campaign continues to
accuse Kemp of improperly using his
current post as secretary of state.
The Associated Press has not called
the election.
“We are declaring victory,” Kemp aide
Ryan Mahoney told reporters on a con
ference call late Wednesday, after a day
of the campaigns, media and partisan
observers scrambling for information
about outstanding votes across
Georgia’s 159 counties. Another cam
paign official, Austin Chambers, added:
“The message here is pretty simple:
This election is over, and the results are
clear.” '
Abrams’ campaign manager Lauren
Groh-Wargo retorted a few hours later
that the Kemp campaign offered “no
proof” other than nonspecific provision
al ballot counts released by Kemp’s offi
cial state office.
“He’s offered ... no indication of why
we should take him at his word,” Groh-
Wargo said. “The sitting secretary of
state has declared himself” the winner.
The standoff leaves open the possibili
ty of litigation as Abrams’ campaign has
pushed for the continued counting of
absentee, mail-in and provisional ballots
and renewed its concerns that Kemp
remains the chief elections officer
supervising his own election, a race
already marked by disputes over the vot
ll‘ a runoff is necessary, the second
round would take place Dec. 4, extend
ing Abrams’ bid to become the first
black woman elected governor in
American history while Kemp looks to
maintain the GOP’s domination in a
state where Democrats haven’t won a
Earlier this year, Woodall defeated
Republican challenger Shane Hazel is a
primary for the seat. Woodall finished
with 71.93 percent of 42,259 total votes
to Hazel’s 28.07 percent. Woodall car
ried Forsyth County, too, with 68.48
percent of the 17,767 local votes.
He is a member of the House of
Representatives’ rules, budget and trans
portation and infrastructure committees.
He said getting the recent tax bill passed
is among his accomplishments.
Previously, Woodall said if re-elected
he plans to continue working on regula
tory reform, changes to the tax code,
updates to international trade and build
ing trust with other members of
Congress to pass legislation.
Woodall is a graduate of the law
school of the University of Georgia and
Furman University. He formerly served
as chief of staff of former Congressman
John Linder. e
In his campaign, Woodall favored
making education more accessible, cut
ting red tape for business and Fair Tax
legislation.
Bourdeaux teaches at Georgia State
University and was previously of the
Georgia Senate Budget and Evaluation
Office and as chair of National
Association for Budgeting and Financial
Management.
“Our race is still too close to call, &
our fight isn’t over yet,” Bourdeaux
posted on Twitter on Wednesday after
noon. “My entire team is working over
time to make sure that every voter’s
voice is heard & their vote is counted.
Thank you for your continued support.”
The Associated Press contributed to this
report.
governor’s race since 1998.
Partisan observers nationally have
watched intently for clues about just
how much of a battleground Georgia
can be in the 2020 presidential cam
paign.
With reported votes exceeding 3.9
million — almost 95 percent of
Georgia’s 2016 presidential turnout —
Kemp has just more than 50 percent.
Before the Kemp campaign declared
victory Wednesday, Groh-Wargo esti
mated that about 15,000 votes separate
Kemp from a runoff. She says at least
that many outstanding absentee and
mail-in ballots remained to be counted.
Kemp’s spokeswoman in the secretary
of state’s office, Candice Broce, said
that by Wednesday afternoon the num
ber of uncounted absentee and mail-in
ballots was less than 2,000 — with her
boss still above the 50 percent threshold.
Broce said about 22,000 provisional
ballots have yet to be processed, accord
ing to a canvass of county officials
across the state. Mahoney asserted that
those numbers make it impossible for
Abrams to pick up enough votes to deny
Kemp an outright victory.
In 2016, with a slightly larger elector
ate, there were 16,739 provisional bal
lots. Of those, 7,592 were counted. State
and campaign officials said they expect
ed a much higher proportion to be
counted this year.
Kemp’s office has not released a
county-by-county breakdown of provi
sional ballots, but Abrams’ campaign
said they believe they are concentrated
in metro Atlanta counties where Abrams
won a large share of the vote. Broce said
Kemp’s office is working on releasing
more detailed information.
The lawsuit at issue Thursday in an
Atlanta federal court comes from voters
who sued Kemp on Election Day alleg
ing that Kemp presiding over an election
in which he is a candidate “violates a
basic notion of fairness.” The plaintiffs
are asking the court to block Kemp from
having anything more to do with man
aging his election,
It’s not immediately clear what
Kemp'’s practical role was in the elec
tion tally. Local officials are responsible
for counting the votes, including provi
sional ballots. County officials have
until next Tuesday to certify their results
and send them to Kemp’s office.
Statewide certification must come by
Nov. 20.
Broce called the lawsuit a “twelfth
hour stunt.”
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