Oconee County, GA Politics

 Qualifying for the four positions (two on the Board of Commissioners, two on the Board of Education) began today and continue through noon Friday at the the Board of Elections office on Water Street next to the Courthouse in downtown Watkinsville. Two incumbents on the Board of Commissioners were among the first to re-qualify for re-nomination and probable re-election Monday Morning. Commissioners Chuck Horton and Amrey Harden were eager to sign their names and pay their qualifying fees for their second consecutive terms (although both have long and storied political careers in Oconee County). Both are retired, but remain active in many different organizations in the community, and will talk to you regardless of whether you are a Democratic partisan, a Republican participant, an independent or something else all together.  Assuming neither get an opponent (and that seems likely even in this volatile political climate), they will both have my enthusiastic endorsement and will ...

 https://www.ryanhammockocsb.com I donated $25.00 to the campaign of Ryan Hammock the other day in his campaign against Julie Mauck for the Board of Education nomination in Oconee County. As many of you already know, the Republican nomination in Oconee County is often tantamount to General Election around here in this still very red county. There is some talk of a Democratic challenger to whoever wins this post, but no Democratic candidate has been elected to the Board of Education in quite some time in Oconee County. Ryan Hammock is a banker with Pinnacle Bank here in Oconee County. He does not seem so ideological bound as his opponent. He is also a volunteer treasurer with the Oconee Cultural Arts Foundation. He has three children, only one of who is old enough to be enrolled in the school system currently, but is looking at 11 years of having children enrolled at Dove Creek.  I would sincerely encourage all Oconee County voters to support Hammock in his campaign for the Boa...