Democrats Can Win 10th District U.S. House Seat, Candidate Says

Despite the past Republican voting record of the 10th Congressional District, Democrats, in the current political environment, can win in November if they have the right candidate, Chalis Montgomery told Oconee County Democrats last month.

Montgomery, in a primary contest on May 22 for the Democratic nomination, said Democrats can win if they have a candidate who can “speak a shared language” with people in the district.

Montgomery, a music teacher from Bethlehem in Barrow County, said she has a background in serving people that connects her to the issues facing others in the district.

Montgomery was the featured speaker at the regular meeting of the Oconee County Democratic Committee, but the two-hour-long session also included presentations by Eric Norris, Lisa Lott and Allison Mauldin, candidates in the May 22 General Election for two open Superior Court judgeships in the Western Judicial Circuit.

In addition, Dee Dawkins-Haigler, one of three candidates in the Democratic primary for Secretary of State, incumbent Georgia House representatives Deborah Gonzalez and Jonathan Wallace, and Marisue Hillard, running for the Georgia Senate, also gave brief introductory comments.

Early voting for the May 22 primary and nonpartisan judicial General Election started on Monday, and by the end of the day on Friday, only 515 of Oconee County’s 28,284 registered voters, or 1.8 percent, had cast a ballot.

Of those 515 early voters, 389 used the Republican ballot, 123 used the Democratic ballot, and three used only the nonpartisan judicial ballot. The Republican and Democratic ballots also include the judicial ballot.

For more on the story, with a video of the entire session, please go to Oconee County Observations.

Pictured: Chalis Montgomery.