Reflecting on 2024

When the presidential race was called in the early hours of November 6, it felt like a gut punch. As national pundits analyzed election results they showed that every county Georgia shifted red, except for six.

Cobb County was one of those six.

Not only did the county shift left while the country went right, but we turned Republican strongholds in North and West Cobb pink or light blue. Here are a few highlights:

• Harris got 56.91% and our local candidates Chair Lisa Cupid and Sheriff Craig Owens easily won reelection. On top of that, Tahnicia Phillips flipped the State Clerk seat.

• No incumbent state legislator lost their seats. Our tightest Democratic win was Rep Mary Francis Williams who won by 11.5% and the closest Republican incumbent to losing was Rep Don Parsons who won by about 13.5%.

• We came close to flipping the school board despite the heavily gerrymandered maps drawn up by the republicans on the board. Andrew Cole lost to Brad Wheeler by only around 3,000 votes, Vickie Benson lost to Randy Scamihorn by only about 3,500 votes, and Laura Judge lost to John Cristadoro by only 6,000 votes.

The bottom line is that the blue shift we saw in 2020 wasn’t a fluke. Cobb is a blue county and we are here to stay. Flipping the Cobb County Schools Post 4 board seat in next election cycle will be the last domino to fall for GOP controlled government bodies.

We supported 35 Democrats during this election cycle from the top of the ticket to the bottom and at every meeting leading up to the election we had record attendance.

It’s up to us to continue this momentum into 2025, and we believe it is possible given what we as a party accomplished in 2024.

We have a new executive board, a new year, and a new election right around the corner. There’s still a lot of work to do, starting with the special elections in February, March, and April.

2025 Resolutions: Hold the County Commission

Cobb County republicans have already announced that their New Year’s resolution is to flip the Cobb County Board of Commissioners. At qualifying they told the Marietta Daily Journal they hope a low voter turnout in the special election this spring will help them flip districts two and four.

Those are the same districts by the way that state senator Ed Setzler redrew after he couldn’t come to terms with the Democrats securing a majority on the board in 2020. We cannot and will not allow the dirty political tricks of a petty man to determine the future of our county.

Make a plan to vote in the February primary, the potential runoffs in March, and the final election in April.

District 2 Primary Candidates:

• Jaha Howard

• Erick Allen

District 4 Primary Candidates:

• Monique Sheffied (I)

• Yashica Marshall

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