To say that the Democratic challengers to Oconee County’s three incumbent Republican state legislators are entering the fall campaign at a financial disadvantage is a gross understatement.
House District 120 Rep. Houston Gaines had $657,766 Net Balance Cash On Hand at the beginning of this month.
His Democratic challenger, Andrew Ferguson, had $4,538.
The Oconee County Planning Commission on Monday night recommended that previously approved plans for the 24-acre cleared and graded parcel on the Oconee Connector at SR Loop 10 be modified to allow for a day-care center and private kindergarten.
Landscape Architect Ken Beall told the Commission that the developer of the multi-use project has been approached by someone who wants to open a Goddard School, a preschool franchise, as part of the project.
University of Georgia Political Science Professor Charles Bullock didn’t tell Oconee County Democrats last month that Joe Biden will win Georgia in November, but that he could, and he explained how that victory likely will have happened if it comes about.
Drawing on data from recent elections, Bullock said Democrats win when they get about 30 percent of the White vote and African-Americans make up about 30 percent of the electorate.
Oconee County Superior Court Judge H. Patrick Haggard said at the beginning of an hour-long hearing last week on the suit filed by the Townley Family Partnership LLLP against the Town of North High Shoals that he would not make a decision at the end of the session.
He told attorneys for Townley and the Town of North High Shoals that he would be reviewing the materials already submitted after the hearing and would follow up on “things that you think are important.”
The Oconee County Board of Elections and Registration on Tuesday voted not to proceed with a challenge filed by Stephen Aleshire of 45 Oconee County voters “due to lack of probable cause.”
Aleshire addressed the Board during the public comment section of the meeting, which was before the Board vote, and said he was challenging the registration of the voters, not their “ability to vote.”
The Oconee County Board of Commissioners on Tuesday night turned down a rezone request for a commercial development on Mars Hill Road at Julian Drive and approved a large strip development on U.S. 441 just north of Watkinsville.
The vote against the Mars Hill Road development represented an attempt to keep that section of Mars Hill Road residential. Commissioner Mark Thomas was the sole negative vote on the rezone denial.
The Oconee County Elections and Registration Office on Monday began verifying the petitions with Oconee County signers to put Kalki Yalamanchili on the November ballot as an independent candidate for Western Judicial Circuit District Attorney.
The Georgia Office of the Secretary of State has given the election offices in both Oconee and Clarke counties until July 26 to complete the verification process.
