Today voters across the Atlanta metro will once again head to the polls to vote in municipal runoff elections for mayor, city council and school board seats in the cities of Atlanta, Sandy Springs, Roswell, East Point and South Fulton.
A look at some of the races that have drawn statewide attention from party leaders - and one or two that have gotten a little nasty down the stretch.
Sandy Springs:
The most high-profile race on the ballot is Fulton County's Sandy Springs, where incumbent Mayor Rusty Paul is seeking his fourth term against challenger Dontaye Carter. While technically a nonpartisan contest, everyone knows which side of the aisle is which here, as Paul is a former Georgia GOP chair and Republican state legislator with the backing of Gov. Brian Kemp. Carter, meanwhile, is a Democrat running on a far-left platform who has Stacey Abrams hitting the phones on his behalf and the full weight of the Georgia Democratic Party backing his bid. Carter is also trying to distance himself from declaring four years “I don’t back the blue”— an inflammatory reference to the police.
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