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Gwinnett official still has support after ‘racist pig’ post

Gwinnett County Commissioner Tommy Hunter sits beside chairman Charlotte Nash during a Jan. 17 meeting. (HENRY TAYLOR / HENRY.TAYLOR@AJC.COM)
Gwinnett County Commissioner Tommy Hunter sits beside chairman Charlotte Nash during a Jan. 17 meeting. (HENRY TAYLOR / HENRY.TAYLOR@AJC.COM)
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Feb 3, 2017

In the days immediately following the Facebook post in which he called civil rights leader and U.S. Rep. John Lewis a “racist pig,” Gwinnett County Commissioner Tommy Hunter received more than 900 emails.

Their contents echoed the divide among many residents of the Hunter’s District 3, which covers a racially and politically diverse swath of southern and eastern Gwinnett County.

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Read more about what the residents of Hunter’s district had to say on myAJC.com.

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