Oconee County, GA Politics

Sent from my iPhone Begin forwarded message: From: Lee Becker <lbbecker48@gmail.com> Date: June 12, 2022 at 10:16:55 PM EDT To: lowellsdad@gmail.com Subject: Oconee Democrats To Hold Candidate Forum For June 21 Runoff Reply-To: lbbecker48@gmail.com  Oconee Democrats To Hold Candidate Forum For June 21 Runoff View this email in your browser ...

Begin forwarded message: From: Ken Davis < kfdavis96@gmail.com > Subject: [ocgadems] Fwd: PLEASE SHARE!!! Date: June 8, 2022 at 8:14:26 AM EDT To: ocgadems-votingmembers@googlegroups.com FYI. Sample ballots for June 21 run-off. Ken Davis ---------- Forwarded message --------- From: Rebecca Anglin < ranglin@oconee.ga.us > Date: Tue, Jun 7, 2022 at 4:42 PM Subject: PLEASE SHARE!!! To: Jay Hanley < jayhanley1@gmail.com >, Ken Davis < kfdavis96@gmail.com >, Kirk Shook < kshookgop@gmail.com >, Doug Hammond < doughammond57@yahoo.com >, Oconee GOP < oconeegopchair@gmail.com >, Eric Gisler < emgisler@gmail.com > Good Afternoon,   Please see attached for Sample ballots. It is fine to print and disperse. As always we have copies in our office as well. Please share with your parties.   Kind Regards –   Rebecca Anglin   Rebecca Anglin Director & Chair Oconee County Board of Elections Office: (706)769-3958 F...

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​ I was advanced voter number 294 during lunchtime at the Oconee County Board of Elections and Registration on Water Street in the small building adjacent to the Oconee County Courthouse off Main Street in downtown Watkinsville. When you arrive a very soft spoken poll worker asked me to get my proof of Identification ready to show to the next set of poll workers behind the counter. There they will make you sign a piece of paper essentially affirming that you are indeed you, and will ask you which of the three ballots you would like to cast. Selecting a Democratic Party ballot doesn’t mean you are necessarily Democratic, nor does selecting a Republican ballot mean you are Republican in your personal political philosophy necessarily either. You may also select a nonpartisan ballot, but then you don’t get to choose anyone in the local races for the Board of Education for example on the GOP side of the ledger. Should you be so inclined as to grab a Republican ballot, I would strongly urge ...

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​Georgia Democratic Gubernatorial nominee Stacey Abrams is speaking tomorrow, Tuesday, March 22, at 4 pm at the Georgia Theater on Lumpkin Street in downtown Athens, Georgia. Doors will open at 3:30 pm

​ I love this bank, and it is the closest financial institution to my place of employment. We have an account or two or three there. All the employees are really nice and send me birthday cards and the whole nine yards. So I was very disappointed to receive a letter in the mail this morning telling me that they plan to close this branch permanently soon. I think that this is a loss not only for Watkinsville but for all of Oconee County as well. I hope at the very least that they will keep the Automatic Teller Machine there for the time being. I hope that they are not terminating any of their wonderful and personable employees. We do not need higher unemployment rates locally or statewide either. This former Athens First Bank and Trust (now Synovus) was a welcome addition to the landscape of businesses in downtown Watkinsville.  Synovus is keeping their Butler’s Crossing location open 

 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 ...

  Realtor Elliot Rogers joins the race for an open seat on the Oconee County School Board: Rogers joins Julie Mauck and Ryan Hammock in the race to replace Wayne Bagley, who says he is not running for another term on the School Board in Watkinsville.

 Today I received a flier from 10th District GOP congressional candidate Marc McCain sticking out of the flag of my mail box at my home in Morgan Manor Estates subdivision in Watkinsville, Evidently this is the first time McCain or his volunteers have canvassed because they should know it is illegal to place campaign literature in, on, or on top of any mail receptacle without proper postage affixed or otherwise using the United States Postal Services. You may place any campaign brochure or literature in the door of the residence, leave it on the porch, or just about anywhere except the mailbox. Campaigning 101 was evidently not taken by this volunteer. The USPS owns your mailbox, and is the only body that can place things in their legally (along with Amazon and the like).  Last night just after sunset I heard a knock on my door and it was a volunteer for Dr. Paul Broun asking if I wanted a flier from his campaign. I politely declined, even though Dr. Broun did get me an invita...

 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...

Sent from my iPhone Begin forwarded message: From: Lee Becker <lbbecker48@gmail.com> Date: February 22, 2022 at 10:46:58 PM EST To: lowellsdad@gmail.com Subject: Oconee And Walton Passed Over In Awards Of Water And Sewer Relief Funds Reply-To: lbbecker48@gmail.com  Oconee And Walton Passed Over In Awards Of Water And Sewer Relief Funds View this email in your browser ...

Sent from my iPhone Begin forwarded message: From: Lee Becker <lbbecker48@gmail.com> Date: February 22, 2022 at 1:03:00 AM EST To: lowellsdad@gmail.com Subject: Wiedower One Of Eight Natural Resources Committee Members Taking Money From Okefenokee Mining Applicant Reply-To: lbbecker48@gmail.com  Wiedower One Of Eight Natural Resources Committee Members Taking Money From Okefenokee Mining Applicant View this email in your browser ...

  Statement from Oconee County Government Regarding Easy Vote The Oconee County Board of Elections has been notified by Easy Vote, a vendor involved with absentee and advance voting, that a data breach has taken place. Easy Vote has secured the site and moved all files, and all voters that were affected are being reviewed. Easy Vote has informed the county that the affected data included information that is  currently   public record with the exception of date of birth.   The breach occurred from an export of the daily voter file   on January 13, 2022. No   social security numbers or driver’s license numbers were affected. Easy Vote also serves over 120 of the 159 counties in Georgia, including Oconee County, which it has served since 2015 without prior incident.    Questions regarding this incident should be directed to Easy Vote CFO Charles Davis at   cdavis@easyvotesolutions.com .   Oconee County Government is committed to ensuring th...

Oconee County Observations: Oconee County Schools Planning To Begin Work Next ... : ***Construction To Be Completed In 2024*** Oconee County Schools plans to issue a request for proposals for construction of a New Instruct...

Sent from my iPhone Begin forwarded message: From: Lee Becker <lbbecker48@gmail.com> Date: February 7, 2022 at 12:04:44 AM EST To: lowellsdad@gmail.com Subject: Oconee Schools Moving Forward With Plans For $12.7 Million Instructional Support Center Reply-To: lbbecker48@gmail.com  Oconee Schools Moving Forward With Plans For $12.7 Million Instructional Support Center View this email in your browser ...

  BEARING WITNESS... “While white mob violence against African Americans was an obsession in the South, it was not limited to that region. White supremacy was and is an American reality.  Whites lynched Blacks in nearly every state, including New York, Minnesota, and California. Wherever Blacks were present in significant numbers, the threat of being lynched was always real.  Blacks had to watch their step, no matter where they were in America.  A Black man could be walking down the road, minding his business, and his life could suddenly change by meeting a white man or a group of white men or boys who on a whim decided to have some fun with a Negro; and this could happen in Mississippi or New York, Arkansas, or Illinois.  By the 1890s, lynching fever gripped the South, spreading like cholera, as white communities made Blacks their primary target, and torture their focus.  Burning the Black victim slowly for hours was the chief method of torture.  Lync...