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Wednesday, March 14, 2007
GOP chairman Howard faces challenger
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Greg Howard has drawn an 11th-hour challenger for the Gwinnett GOP chairmanship.
Typically a local party chairman’s race wouldn’t be worth spilling much ink over. But it is unusual to challenge a sitting chairman.
Enter Seth Weathers, a 22-year-old Web designer.
” I feel that the Gwinnett GOP is in need of revitalization,” Weathers said in a news release we found in our inbox this morning. “Our local party needs fresh, new energy going into the 2008 elections. A better job also needs to be done to raise money and build membership as was done in the past.”
Usually the chairpeople of political parties serve until they burn out or get the message that it’s time to go. Being party chairman isn’t that much of a plum, after all. It’s not like getting elected to Congress or the County Commission. The job comes with little prestige and no salary.
Weathers didn’t mention Howard by name in his press statement or during a followup interview. But he did say the party is “very low on membership right now.”
“When you’re a county of 750,000 people and you don’t have 1,000 people in the party, you don’t have 500 people in the party, you don’t have even 200 people in the party, that’s sad,” Weathers said.
Weathers listed more than a dozen elected officials and Gwinnett party activists as supporting his candidacy. Among them, Gwinnett Commission Chairman Charles Bannister, and Commissioners Lorraine Green and Mike Beaudreau.
Howard couldn’t be reached immediately for comment.
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Peeking over the cyber fence?
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Just click on www.howtoratoutyourtrashyneighbor.com.
OK, that’s not a real Web address. But Gwinnett Commissioner Lorraine Green has launched her own Internet site to better inform Gwinnett surfers about the county’s zoning laws and about how to file property maintenance complaints.
The address: www.cleanupgwinnett.com.
“I’ve heard the comment that filing property maintenance complaints can be confusing or even intimidating,” Green said. “Cleanupgwinnett.com is designed to make the process easy and informative for citizens. It also allows me to file complaints for citizens, should they wish to remain anonymous.”
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