Mulberry’s council districts.
By Elliott Brack
Editor and Publisher, GwinnettForum
NOV. 12, 2024 | Gwinnett is not done with voting yet for 2024, at least if you live in the Mulberry area. There is a runoff in one of the races for a city council seat. The runoff is for the council seat in District 5 and will be held on December 3. Only voters who live in District 5 will be eligible to cast votes in the run-off. You do not have to have voted in the general election to cast a vote in the runoff.
District 5 is headed to a runoff between Doug Ingram and Michelle Sims after no candidate gained a majority of the votes there.
There were 1,394 votes in that election. Doug Ingram topped the field with 615 votes or 41 percent, while Michele Y. Sims got 514 or 34 percent of the votes. The other candidate, Kevin Arocha, scored 384 votes, or 25 percent.
Winning the first-ever council seats were Tim Sullivan, Robert Michael Coker, Kyle Shields and Michael Rudnick.
Yes, I chuckled when I got a text last Wednesday afternoon, asking: “Why is the flag at the courthouse in Gwinnett flying at half staff? Are they upset over Kamala losing?”
Even though I knew Gwinnett County voted in a large majority for the Democratic candidate Kamala Harris for president, (58 percent vs. 41 percent), I didn’t think the county would use its official position to be that obvious.
Sure enough, there was another reason.
County spokesman Joe Sorenson let us in on what happened: “Governor Kemp ordered the U.S. and Georgia flags to be flown at half-staff to honor Bernard ‘Bernie’ Marcus, co-founder of Home Depot.”
Even though many of our readers may disagree with our views, at least GwinnettForum will give you insight into what’s going on in Gwinnett.
Unemployed, or just looking to raise a little money?
If you have a vehicle, here’s a way you could be able to raise some cash.
Look around you. People who ran in the recent election put out signs all over the county, many along the roadways of the county. Unfortunately, many of these signs, here a week after the election, are still planted and are an eye-sore now.
So simply get in your vehicle, and every time you see a candidate sign, pick it up. Fairly soon, you’ll have lots of signs.
Then simply call each of the candidates whose signs you have. The candidate should be happy to pay you at least a dollar per sign for you having cleaned up our roadways of those signs. That would be cheaper than the candidate himself picking up those signs. And they could pay you, we suspect, out of the candidate’s campaign fund, or even out of his pocket, if the candidate is an honorable person.
And, you’ll be proud of helping make Gwinnett more clean and beautiful!
It’s great when GwinnettForum gets the different views of our readers. We are particularly pleased when we get letters to the editor. And in this issue, we have nine people writing about different matters, primarily about the recent election, but also touching on other topics.
We started this Forum 24 years ago to offer readers a chance to sound off on topics. Now as the media has dwindled considerably, we are pleased to have survived and continue to offer this space for you to express yourselves. Keep on letting us know what you think on different matters!
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