It’s been an up and down year for Cobb Co. Sheriff Craig Owens, who won re-election earlier this month but was also caught up in an embarrassing scandal where he called in deputies to a Burger King because the restaurant messed up his order. Now he’s being sued by several people, including the Republican who challenged him in the sheriff’s race, over deleting and blocking their comments on the county’s public Facebook page, a potential violation of free speech rights. Another scandal has Owens and his office SINKING…
Dems find mess in CD-11
Georgia Democrats had a mess on their hands in the 11th Congressional District outside Atlanta after the party nominated Katy Stamper, later finding out she wasn’t a Democrat at all and had far-right political leanings. So they launched a write-in campaign promoting Tracey Verhoeven as the ‘real’ Dem in the race. It didn’t matter in the end as U.S. Rep. Barry Loudermilk cruised to re-election, but Stamper still got 32% of the vote to just 3% for Verhoeven. A failed write-in campaign and a messy election in CD-11 has Democrats there SINKING…
