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ELECTION PREVIEW EDITION Sports Football: Preview of Week 12 matchups Page IB FORSYTH COUNTY NEWS Weekend Edition-November 4-5, 2022 FORSYTHNEWS.COM P^forsythcountynews Q@ForsythNews (@J@ForsythNews $2.00 Pence stops in Cumming to support governor Kelly Whitmire Forsyth County News Gov. Brian Kemp is joined by former Vice President Mike Pence during a campaign stop at Cumming Cigar Company onTuesday, Nov. 1. Ex-VP says Kemp has led Ga. to unprecedented prosperity By Kelly Whitmire kwhitmire@forsythnews.com With a week to go ahead of the Nov. 8 election, Gov. Brian Kemp was joined by former Vice President Mike Pence for a rally in Cumming on Tuesday. Kemp’s re-election bus tour stopped by the Cumming Cigar Company, located at 230 E. Main Street, as one of several stops in the metro Atlanta area on Tuesday, Nov. 1. During his remarks, Pence said he had been a supporter of Kemp since before Republican voters selected him as the party’s candidate in the 2018 primary. “When the governor asked if I would come back and campaign with him, get back on the bus, I said yes in a heartbeat because the fact is I think there is no better governor in America than Brian Kemp,” Pence said. “I can honestly say I was for Brian Kemp before it was cool. I came in in that primary four years ago and saw his quality, I sensed his commitment, I sensed his backbone. “I knew he would lead Georgia to unprecedented prosperity and securi ty, and Brian Kemp has delivered for all of the people in the Peach State.” Kemp is facing Democratic chal lenger Stacey Abrams in a rematch of the candidates’ 2018 election. During his remarks, Kemp touched on his term as governor, including the state’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic and Georgia being the first state to reopen follow ing lockdowns. “As a small business owner for 35 years, I understood the pain that they were feeling. Georgians are not going to sit in their basement and lose everything they have got because of a virus,” Kemp said. “We gave them the opportunity to make a decision to go back to work, to open their businesses, for you all to patronize those businesses because we’ve been there before. We know how that feels, [Georgia First Lady Marty Kemp] and I.” Pence also credited Kemp for Georgia being named as Area See Pence 12A ELECTIONS Vacant BOE spot at stake By Sabrina Kerns skerns@forsythnew.com Republican candidate Mike Valdes and Democrat Elaine Padgett are facing off for the Forsyth County Board of Education District 5 seat in the 2022 General Election on Tuesday, Nov. 8. Current board member Kristin Morrissey announced earlier this year that she would be giving up what was the District 2 seat before district lines were redrawn, leaving it open for an election without an incum bent. District 5 covers much of south Forsyth County where both candi dates live. Valdes won the GOP primary in May over opponent Erin Knight while Padgett ran unopposed. Now that they are set to face each other on Election Day next week, the Forsyth County News asked both candidates about their positions on issues in education facing Forsyth today. See BOE13A Valdes Voters to pick District 6 rep By Kelly Whitmire kwhitmire@forsythnews.com After years of being split between Georgia’s 7th and 9th Congressional districts, Forsyth County voters will soon choose the next member of Congress from Georgia’s 6th Congressional dis trict. On Nov. 8 Democrat Bob Christian and Republican Rich McCormick will face off in the race for the seat, which includes all of Forsyth and Dawson counties and portions of Cherokee, Cobb, Fulton and Gwinnett counties. Here’s a look at what the candi dates had to say about the issues: . . Christian See Congress 16A ATM stolen from south Forsyth bank over weekend By Kelly Whitmire kwhitmire@forsythnews.com The Forsyth County Sheriff’s Office is investigating the theft of an ATM from a south Forsyth County bank over the weekend. According to an FCSO incident report, deputies responded to the burglary alarm at Chase Bank at 3695 Peachtree Parkway, at the intersection with McGinnis Ferry Road, at about 6:30 a.m. on Sunday, Oct. 30 after suspects report edly used a white Ford F250 and other tools to steal the machine, which they were unable to open. “While en route, dispatch also broad casted that the ATM machine [had] been ripped out of the ground,” the responding officer said in the report. “Upon arrival, I observed the ATM was missing from its place, a crowbar was laying on the ground beside other parts of the ATM and debris from the ground and the ATM.” The machine was found behind a gas station next to the bank, the officer said. After reviewing footage from a camera at the gas station, the officer said two of the suspects tied a chain to the machine while the third waited in the truck, though the trio was unable to open it after the theft. “After the chain was hooked to the ATM, the driver drove the truck causing the ARM to be dismantled and dragged it,” the responding officer said. “After dragging the ATM, the drivers stopped the truck and stepped out of the truck and assisted [the other two suspects]. All sus pects were unsuccessful to gain access and load the ARM into their truck.” The officer reported that he spoke with a security representative with the bank, who said a similar crime recently hap pened at a Chase Bank in Norcross. 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