Peachtree City mayor runs for state office

Peachtree City mayor Harold Logsdon announced his candidacy Saturday for Georgia Insurance Commissioner.

“I believe that life is not about self, but about service to others,” Logsdon said in a statement made Saturday morning at a meeting for the Fayette County Republican party.

Logsdon has been mayor of Peachtree City since he won a run-off in December 2005 against then-incumbent mayor Steve Brown.

The insurance commissioner position will be vacant in 2010, when fellow Republican and current commissioner John Oxendine joins what has become a crowded gubernatorial ballot.