Fayette County

voters will know in late August who two of their commissioners will be

for the next four years, as the 2002 county election has turned into an

all-Republican affair.

No Democrats

qualified for the two county commission seats or the two Board of Education

seats up for election this year, according to the county's election office.

The primary

is set for Aug. 20, while the general election will be Nov. 5.

The school

board races will be especially easy to call, since there is a single unopposed

candidate in each race: Incumbent Greg Powers of Fayetteville in Post

4, and Lee Wright of Tyrone in Post 5 (Mickey Littefield announced earlier

this year he would not seek another term). Wright has served on Tyrone's

Planning Commission.

For Post 4

on the county commission, incumbent Linda Wells will face former Brooks

Town Council member Caroline Smith and Thomas Stephens.

Post 5 has

incumbent Greg Dunn, the current commission chairman, facing former Fayetteville

mayor Mike Wheat.

There is one

judgeship on the Griffin Judicial Circuit up this year, and incumbent

Chris Edwards of Brooks is unopposed.

Portions of

three separate state House of Representatives districts and three state

Senate districts stretch into Fayette County. Many House districts are

multi-member districts in which all voters will elect candidates for every

post.

Since redistricting

has occurred since the 2000 elections, candidates listed as incumbents

may now be serving in different districts from those they are campaigning

for in 2002.

In House District

48, candidates for all four posts are unopposed:

Bob Holmes

of Atlanta, 58, a Democrat, director of the Southern Center for Studies

in Public Policy, in Post 1.

Incumbent

Sharon Beasley-Teague, 50, a Democrat, a machinist from Red Oak, in Post

2.

Joe Heckstall

of East Point, 55, a Democrat , a motivational speaker, in Post 3.

Virgil Fludd

of Fayetteville, 44, a Democrat, a corporate recruiter, in Post 4.

House District

85 has two posts.

Incumbent

John Yates of Griffin, 80, a Republican, a retired distributor center

manager, is unopposed in Post 1.

Incumbent

John Lunsford of McDonough, 44, a Republican, a businessman, is running

in Post 2.

Merrill Massengale

of Griffin, 63, a Republican, a retired Coast Guard officer and professor,

is also running in Post 2.

House Minority

Leader Lynn Westmoreland of Sharpsburg, 52, a Republican, a builder, is

unopposed in District 86.

In District

17 of the Senate, incumbent Mike Crotts of Conyers, 55, a commercial real

estate and insurance professional, is running against Diane Massengale

of Hampton, 51, an office administrator. Both are Republicans.

Incumbent Mitch

Seabaugh of Sharpsburg, 42, a Republican, a CPA, is unopposed in District

28.

The race for

District 34 has five candidates:

Chuck Meadows

of Riverdale, 26, a Democrat, a consultant.

Michael King

of College Park, 47, a Democrat, an attorney.

Prudencia

Sealey-Trotter of Fayetteville, 40, a Democrat, an airline payroll administrator

and owner of a publishing companyl.

Valencia Seay

of College Park, 48, a Democrat, a legislator.

Emory Wilkerson

of Fayetteville, 41, a Republican, an attorney.

Fayette County

is in the 8th and 13th districts in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Georgia's population growth the past 10 years has resulted in an increase

from 11 districts to 13.

In the new

8th District, incumbent Republican Mac Collins of Jackson, a businessman,

will face Angelos Petrakopoulos of Duluth, a Democrat and an information

technology consultant, in November. Collins now represents the 3rd District,

which encompasses all of Fayette.

The 13th District

has six candidates:

Greg Hecht

of Forest Park, 38, a Democrat, an attorney and a state senator now representing

part of Fayette County.

Donzella James

of Atlanta, 54, a Democrat, also a current state senator.

Embry Malone

of Stone Mountain, 48, a Democrat, a business consultant.

David Scott

of Atlanta, 56, a Democrat, owner and CEO of an advertising agency.

David Worley

of Jonesboro, 43, a Democrat, an attorney and recent head of the state's

Democratic Party.

Clay Cox of

Lilburn, 33, a Republican, a businessman.

Two Fayette

County residents have thrown their hats into the ring for statewide office:

David Mays

of Tyrone, 49, a dentist, will face incumbent Secretary of State Cathy

Cox in the Democratic primary for that seat, with the winner facing one

of three Republican candidates in November.

Kathy Cox of

Peachtree City, 37, a teacher and a current state representative, is one

of two Republican candidates for state school superintendent. She and

Mitchell Kaye, a current state senator, will vie for the chance to face

one of six Democratic candidates i n the fall.

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