Barrow, Oconee and Oglethorpe chairs share strategy with Clarke County Dems at Brett's Saturday morning

Athens Area Democrats welcomed the chairs from Oconee, Barrow, Oglethorpe and Clarke Democratic Committees Saturday morning at Brett's restaurant to breakfast brainstorm about ways to head off Republican redistricting ploys and possibly position a person to run against the Republican three in the 113th.

Dwight Acey from Barrow County described his culture shock coming from the Bay Area in California to find a culturally and politically dormant left in Barrow.

Victor Gagliano described some of the obstacles they have overcome in Oglethorpe County en route to keeping the Sheriff's and other offices in the Democratic column, which is an increasingly rare phenomenon in Georgia these days.

Bill Overend of the Athens-Clarke Democratic committee described the once in a lifetime opportunity to get an as of yet unnamed Democratic candidate elected in fractured 113th House race in an election that will otherwise attract an extremely low turnout in Oconee and southern Clarke, Norther Morgan and Eastern Oglethorpe County in a district designed to keep Bob Smith or Hank Huckaby or unnamed Republican follower in office forever.

Redistricting was the other order of the day as an important meeting will take place Monday at the Seney Stovall Chapel in Athens on Milledge Avenue, and former chair Jane Kidd let it be known she needed a videographer to attend the meeting and tape the comments from the audience for transcripts for the Justice Department to consider when decided to approve of Athens-Clarke getting divided in four sections from the arches out to completely diminish any and all Democratic influence in Northeast Georgia for at least another decade.

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