Some of the candidates running for election in the new city of Mulberry. Click to meet the candidates.
By Elliott Brack
Editor and publisher, GwinnettForum.com
SEPT. 6, 2024 | Perhaps you have noticed that while GwinnettForum endorses candidates in state, local and national presidential political races, we do not endorse candidates in the 16 (soon to be 17) Gwinnett city elections. The individual cities have their own unique governmental characteristics, and it is hard to keep up with them.
Coming up this fall, voters in the boundaries of the new City of Mulberry will elect five councilmen. Those elected in turn, will decide among themselves who will be their presiding officer, or mayor.
While GwinnettForum will continue its policy of not getting directly involved on who should be elected in Mulberry, we will, however, present demographic facts about the 15 candidates seeking these five positions on its City Council, and ask them why they are running.
We have sent to all candidates a questionnaire so that they may introduce themselves to their voters. It’s a relatively short questionnaire, plus one open-ended item asking each to answer in no more than 100 words why they should be elected.
We will print the result of what the candidates send back, starting today, and in future issues of this publication. There is no charge to the candidates for GwinnettForum to list their answers. We do this as a public service for our readers.
While some of the candidates have not responded to our request for information, today we print the answers to those eight (of 15) candidates who have sent the questionnaire back to us. Meanwhile, click on this link to see the candidates who were speedy in returning the form to us. (In coming issues, we’ll add responses when the candidates send their answers to us.)
Note: Marland Roberts, who previously qualified to run for Council, is no longer in the race.
Here’s to Gwinnett’s 17th city. May the voters be diligent in choosing their new leaders.
Postal offices are saying that our mail service is improving. It may be, but every now and then we get mail showing that significant delays are still out there.
On Tuesday we got a letter back which could not be delivered, since the people we hoped to get the Christmas card had apparently moved. Yes, it was on December 19, 2023 that the envelope was mailed, and it was returned to us on September 3, 2024. That’s a little over eight months later.
Instead of one of those yellow “Return to sender” stickers, there were three stickers. The first one was dated January 6, 2024. Another sticker was dated June 27, 2024, while the third sticker had a date of July 11, 2024. Again, remember we got the envelope back on September 3.
Makes you wonder why this letter was sitting around in some postal bin from January 6 to June 27, then sat again until July 11, and which finally got to us September 3.
Does the thought come to mind, “What’s going on?” And it also makes you think that all the postal problems cannot be in Palmetto.
One postal official told us that all forwarded mail in the southeast, if not the nation, must be re-routed to Tampa, Fla. first, before it was routed back to the sender. We presume, of course, for efficiency. It’s not working.
How to handle Robocalls? Raleigh Perry of Buford makes this suggestion: “Answer the phone this way: ‘THIS IS WWKK RADIO AND YOU ARE ON THE AIR!’” He adds: “You will not hear anything but a hang up”
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