Just over 5,000 Peachtree City

residents spoke up at the polls Tuesday, electing planning activist Steve

Brown as the city's next mayor and municipal attorney Murray Weed over

incumbent Carol Fritz.

The staggering result of the

runoff election, however, was the landslide in which Brown and Weed won.

Each candidate won all 12 precincts and the absentee balloting also.

When all the votes were tabulated,

Weed's total was just 43 votes shy of Brown's. Gary Rower, runner-up for

mayor, garnered 1,946 votes in his bid for office, while incumbent councilwoman

Carol Fritz won the nod from 1,918 voters.

Both Brown and Weed won by

margins of more than 1,200 votes.

At a party celebrating victory

Tuesday night, Brown said he plans to fulfill his first campaign promise

almost immediately: to clean his election material off the dining room

table ... a promise made to his wife some time back.

As for Anne Marie, she's used

to her husband immersing himself in city business, and she figures that

having the assistance of city staff will actually allow him to spend more

time away from city issues.

Now that voters have spoken

at the polls, the focus will be on efforts to make the transition between

the outgoing elected officials Fritz and mayor Bob Lenox, who didn't run

due to term limits and the newly elected mayor and councilman.

Earlier this month, incumbent

Steve Rapson was elected to the council seat he currently holds after

his appointment by the sitting council back in March. He defeated the

only candidate opposing him in the election, former City Clerk Nancy Faulkner.

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