MAYORAL

HEIDI DAVISON

_� Incumbent

_� Said underage drinking in Athens needs to be addressed but will not consider raising the age limit to get into all bars to 21.

_� Runs her campaign largely on her accomplishments as mayor. These include increased stream buffers and tree coverage and 14 new police officers and two new attorneys to help with ordinance enforcement.

RICHARD DEROSE

_� Advocates more safety measures to protect the community from threats posed by bio-research at the University.

_� Wants to increase police funding downtown, provide public restrooms downtown and notify ACC Health Department of violations by downtown businesses.

CHARLIE MADDOX

_� Wants to bring alienated segments of the community into the fold.

_� Focuses on bringing new businesses to Athens and fostering economic growth.

_� Wants to hold students, not bar owners, responsible for underage drinking.

_� Encourages residential development in Athens’ existing urban areas and reduce sprawl.

TOM CHASTEEN

_� Wants to alleviate underage drinking in Athens by enforcing existing laws better.

_� Wants to develop plan with downtown bar owners and business owners to reduce garbage downtown.

_� Wants to establish a committee of elected officials, planning staff, neighborhood association members and the building community to plan future development and discuss its relation to individual property rights.

_� As an ACC commissioner, pushed for 75-foot stream buffer in the county.

STATE HOUSE 115

REGINA QUICK (R)

_� Athens

_� Proposes an overhaul of the state funding formula for K-12.

_� Wants to develop a Children’s Budget to help coordinate appropriation of tax money to state agencies that serve children.

_� Wants Athens-Clarke County to partner with other counties in North Georgia to establish high-tech bio-refineries in the area.

E.H. CULPEPPER (I)

_� Athens

_� Wants to foster the University’s research capabilities.

_� Pro BrainTrain.

_� Believes he can bring funding from both parties as an independent.

DOUG MCKILLIP (D)

_� Athens

_� Favors increasing state funding for K-12 education but not through increased property taxes. He opposes the 65 percent solution.

_� Pro Peachkids, Pro Georgia Rx – to remove sales taxes from over-the-counter medicine.

_� Advocates increasing the state minimum wage.

STATE SENATE DISTRICT 47

MAC RAWSON (D)

_� Athens

_� Former University Faculty

_� 65 percent solution – which dictates that schools must spend 65 percent of their budget on classroom instruction – needs to be revised. Supports smaller class sizes.

_� Favors alternative fuels and hopes the University can contribute to researching new sources of energy.

_� Focuses on making health care available to small businesses.

_� Wants to create independent, non-partisan redistricting commission to redraw district lines.

RALPH HUDGENS (R)

_� Incumbent, Comer

_� Pro 65 percent solution

_� Hopes the University can go to 10 percent ethanol, 90 percent gasoline mixture for its fleet of vehicles in the near future. He said the University eventually should go to an 85 percent ethanol mix, or E85.

_� Said he would try to work his way onto the Appropriations committee to help fund the University.

SENATE DISTRICT 46

BILL COWSERT (R)

_� Athens

_� Wants to allow small businesses to purchase health care through the State Employee Health Benefit Plan.

_� Wants to make 316 an interstate-like road.

_� Pro Brain Train – a proposed commuter rail that would connect Athens and Atlanta

_� Advocates maintaining the state stream buffer.

JANE KIDD (D)

_� Athens

_� Proposes a state Constitutional amendment to limit class sizes.

_� Wants state to fully fund K-12 education.

_� Favors Peachkids.

_� Advocates the state buffer to protect streams from pollution resulting from development.