Local government notes include campaign kickoff

Former Athens State Representative Deborah Gonzalez (pictured above) says she will be a candidate for District Attorney. Democrat Gonzalez served a year in the Georgia House, winning a special election in 2017 before losing to Republican Houston Gaines in 2018. Gonzalez says she will challenge incumbent Ken Mauldin in 2020. Mauldin is DA in a judicial circuit that covers Clarke and Oconee counties.

State Senator Bill Cowsert, a Republican from Athens, is on a Senate study committee appointed by Lieutenant Governor Geoff Duncan: the Vehicle Seat Safety Belt Study Committee will be chaired by Roswell Republican John Albers and will make recommendations for the Georgia legislative session that begins in January.

There is an evening meeting of the Oconee County Planning Commission: it is a 7 o'clock session at the Oconee County courthouse in Watkinsville. 

This evening's Jackson County Commission meeting is set for 6 o'clock at the Jackson County courthouse in Jefferson.