Joe Hunt Says He Remembers When He Decided To Challenge Jody Hice

Joe Hunt says he can remember when he first started thinking about challenging incumbent Jody Hice for the Republican nomination to represent Georgia District 10 in the United States House of Representatives.

Hunt said he didn’t vote for Hice in either of Hice’s two previous elections in 2014 and 2016 and wrote his own name on the ballot in 2016, when Hice had no opposition.

“When I walked out of the booth in November of 2016,” Hunt said. “I looked at my wife and said, ‘That cannot happen again.’ If no one else is going to do it, then it is my responsibility to do it.”

Hunt qualified on March 7.

Hunt has taken stands on issues that differ from those of Hice, and in an interview last week Hunt said he brings a skill set from his business experience Hice does not have, that he sees compromise as a strength, and that he views the world in complex rather than simple terms.

For details of the interview with Hunt and a short video, please go to Oconee County Observations.

Pictured: Joe Hunt.