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A disqualified Republican candidate for the Cobb Board of Commissioners District 2 seat will have her appeal heard in Cobb Superior Court Thursday morning.
Cobb County state lawmakers split over a resolution passed by the Georgia House of Representatives Monday which condemned “the heinous murders committed by Hamas” and expressed support for Israel.
MARIETTA — The Cobb County Board of Education’s partisan divide was on full display Thursday evening when the board’s Democrats attempted, and failed, to end the school district’s involvement in
December 29, 2020 5:20 PM by Wendy Parker Lisa Cupid, Craig Owens and Flynn Broady headlined Democratic wins in countywide races. The gains Cobb Democrats made in the last two election cycles reached a power-shifting culmination in 2020, as incumbent Republicans holding countywide seats were swept out of office. The Cobb Board of Commissioners will become all-female, and with a black Democratic majority headed by two-term commissioner Lisa Cupid, who ousted chairman Mike Boyce. Cupid will be the first chairwoman and first black head of county government in Cobb’s history, as well as the first Democrat to hold the office since Ernest Barrett in 1984.
Georgia Democrats campaign in Cobb County amid scarce early voting locations Published: Dec. 28, 2020 at 10:06 a.m. ET By Polling shows virtual dead heats in both Jan. 5 runoffs for U.S. Senate seats that will determine control of chamber Cobb County corner reminds voters that the pivotal election is just more than a week away. Photo by Donnell Suggs Email icon Resize icon Cobb County, a former Republican voting stronghold of nearly 800,000 Georgians, has become a battleground for the Democratic and Republican parties alike, after the tide shifted a bit during the November election and with a pair of Senate runoffs set for Jan. 5 likely to determine control of that congressional chamber.