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Sunday, September 2, 2007
Unknown tosses hat into ring vs. chairman
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
It’s not who you think. His name is Glenn Pirkle.
Yeah, we’d never heard of him either.
But last Wednesday, Pirkle filed a “declaration of intent” to run against Charles Bannister for Gwinnett commission chairman in 2008.
That means he can start raising money for his campaign.
“Charles Bannister has done a good job, but there’s more fat that needs to be cut out,” said Pirkle during a telephone conversation with GI on Friday night.
In particular, Pirkle, who says he’s “never been in politics, never cared for politics,” is steamed about the storm-water tax the county adopted last year.
“I’m just fed up with it,” he said.
Since you might be hearing Pirkle’s name a little more often, here’s a little more info on him. He is a 53-year-old electrical contractor who’s married and has four grown children.
A native of Jacksonville, Fla., Pirkle has lived in Gwinnett since he was 9.
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