The Daily Citizen, Dalton, Ga., Jamie Jones column
By Jamie Jones, The Daily Citizen, Dalton, Ga. | |
McClatchy-Tribune Information Services |
The mayor of
The city currently does not have a mayor. That will change this fall. Qualifying for mayor of
But with qualifying a little over six weeks away, no one has publicly announced his or her intentions to run. We haven't heard many names of possible candidates being churned out by
Seven years ago, longtime mayor and city councilman
When Pennington sought and won a second term in 2011, only one person challenged him,
That opened the door for a new mayor. Who will that new mayor be? None of the current council members (
Many people speculated that Pennington, after being knocked out of the governor's race, would seek his former position as mayor of
"My political career before this was as a part-time mayor. I'm a businessman and a private person," he said in May. "In fact, if there was any downside to this it was a loss of some of my privacy. I intend to go back to my business and my private life."
Perhaps several
Or maybe they are waiting for that first person to announce in the newspaper, "I would like to be the next mayor of
Will that person be you?
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