January 23, 2018
By: Dwayne Page
The most interest shown in any county wide race so far seems to be for County Mayor, at least as far as potential candidates are concerned.
Randy Paris picked up a petition Tuesday to run for County Mayor as an Independent in the August 2 DeKalb County General Election.
Already Incumbent Tim Stribling and 3rd District County Commissioner Bradley Hendrix have filed petitions to run for County Mayor in the May 1 DeKalb County Democratic Primary and former County Mayor Mike Foster, who recently obtained a petition, is also expected to officially join the primary race.
No Republican has yet emerged but if Paris files his petition and becomes a qualified candidate, the August General Election for County Mayor will be contested at least between Paris and the Democratic nominee.
Meanwhile, Lloyd Emmons has picked up a petition to run for the county commission in the 5th district in the May 1 DeKalb County Democratic Primary.
Two commissioners will be elected from each of the seven county commission districts in August.
Incumbent 5th district commissioner Anita Puckett has already picked up her petition for the May Democratic Primary and Incumbent Republican 5th district commissioner Jerry Adcock will be seeking the DeKalb GOP nomination on February 11 to run in August.
The qualifying deadline for all candidates for county offices and the county commission is February 15.