Several qualify for elections in Whitfield and Murray counties, and to run for Congress

Published 5:00 pm Monday, March 7, 2022

By Charles Oliver
charlesoliver@dailycitizen.news

Qualifying for the May 24 general primary and nonpartisan election kicked off Monday.

Whitfield County

  • Incumbent members of the Board of Commissioners Barry Robbins, District 1, and John Thomas, District 3, qualified to seek reelection.
  • Bill Worley, incumbent in the at-large seat on the Board of Education, also qualified to seek reelection.

All three are Republicans.

School board elections are countywide. Commissioners are elected only by the people who live in the district. Voters’ election cards will tell them which district they live in. The term for both commissioners and school board members is for four years. The qualifying fees are $18 for the school board seats and $270 for the commissioner seats.

Murray County

  • Brad Tallent qualified for the Republican Party primary for Board of Education District 6, currently represented by Heath Jones, also a Republican. Elections are countywide. The term for school board members is for four years.The qualifying fee is $20.
  • Chief Magistrate Judge Connie Reed qualified to seek reelection in a nonpartisan race. The term is for four years. The qualifying fee is $2,056.43.

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State legislature

  • State Sen. Chuck Payne, R-Dalton, qualified to seek reelection for Senate District 54, which includes both Whitfield and Murray counties.
  • State Rep. Steve Tarvin, R-Chickamauga, qualified to seek reelection for state House District 2, which includes parts of southern and western Whitfield County.
  • State Rep. Kasey Carpenter, R-Dalton, qualified to seek reelection for state House District 4, which includes the city of Dalton and some precincts to the north. Nick Voyles, a Dalton homebuilder, also qualified to seek the Republican Party nomination for that post.
  • State Rep. Jason Ridley, R-Chatsworth, qualified to seek reelection for state House District 6, which includes all of Murray County and part of northeast Whitfield County.

Congress

The following candidates qualified to seek the Republican Party nomination for Georgia’s 14th Congressional District, which includes both Whitfield and Murray counties.

  • Incumbent Marjorie Taylor Greene.
  • Eric Cunningham, a businessman from Acworth.
  • James Haygood, a ight-of-way engineer from Rydal.
  • Charles Lutin, an Atlanta physician.
  • Jennifer Strahan, a business owner from Dallas.

Qualifying continues from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. through Thursday and 9 a.m. to noon on Friday. Locally it will take place in Whitfield County in the elections office in the courthouse, and in Murray County in the elections office in the courthouse annex, 121 N. Fourth Ave. in Chatsworth. Whitfield County Democratic Committee Chair Debby Peppers said the party will not have a table at the courthouse but asks anyone who wishes to qualify to contact the party on its Facebook page.

Qualifying for state and federal offices takes place during the same hours at the Georgia secretary of state’s office, 214 State Capitol in Atlanta.

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