City of Stonecrest’s first election draws 20 candidates
A field of 20 candidates signed up this week to run in the city of Stonecrest's first election.
Voters will decide on the new city’s mayor and five City Council members during a March 21 election. All of the races will be contested.
The city of Stonecrest will include more than 50,000 residents in a southeast DeKalb County area near Lithonia, I-20 and Stonecrest Mall.
Here's the list of the candidates who filed to run for office before qualifying ended Wednesday:
Mayor
Douglas E. Favors II
Charles Hill II
Jason Lary
City Council District 1
Jimmy Clanton Jr.
Charles Ross
City Council District 2
Plez A. Joyner
Alexis Bethel Morris
Gretchen Jones Torbert
Rob Turner
City Council District 3
Jazzmin Randall Cobble
Eric Hubbard
City Council District 4
Geraldine Champion
Jesse “Jay” Cunningham
Mary-Pay Hector
Jonathan “JP” Phillips
George Turner Jr.
City Council District 5
Diane Daniels Adoma
Tammy L. Grimes
Lloyd Morrison
Richard Stone
About the Author
Mark Niesse is an enterprise reporter and covers elections and Georgia government for The Atlanta Journal-Constitution and is considered an expert on elections and voting. Before joining the AJC, he worked for The Associated Press in Atlanta, Honolulu and Montgomery, Alabama. He also reported for The Daily Report and The Santiago Times in Chile.
