Commission race narrowed to two

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South Fulton

voters will head to the polls Nov. 28 and make the final decision on

who will be their county commissioner.

Tuesday night's

results showed Khadijah Abdur-Rahman leading the pack of 13 candidates

with 13 percent of the vote for County Commission District 7, followed

Abdur-Rhaman

has maintained a relatively low profile in the race and did not attend

a recent forum sponsored by the South Fulton Chamber of Commerce or

respond to questions from the League of Women Voters.

Edwards is

owner of an Allstate Insurance agency in College Park and is president

of the Old National Merchants Association.

In the other

high profile race in Fulton County, District Attorney Paul Howard withstood

a challenge from John Turner.

Howard had

come under fire for his prosecution efforts in the Ray Lewis murder

trial, but hung on to his position.

Howard won

with 123,356 votes for 54 percent of the vote, while Turner captured

nearly 46 of the votes with 103,953.

Fulton County

voters also gave nearly 60 percent of their votes to Vice President

Al Gore. Gore received 144,029 votes to Gov. George W. Bush's 93,981.

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