Marietta Bill Dunaway announced in June that he would not seek a third term, leaving the open mayoral seat up for grabs. Steve Tumlin, a lawyer who served in the Georgia House from 2004-08, has announced he will run for mayor and is so far unopposed.
All members of Marietta's City Council are running for re-election on the November ballot. City council members serve four-year terms.
Four Marietta school board members plan to seek re-election in the Nov. 3 nonpartisan election. They are Chairman Tony Fasola (Ward 2), Randy Weiner (Ward 3), Jill Mutimer (Ward 4) and Irene Berens (Ward 7). School board members serve four-year terms.
Robert "Bobby" Thanepohn has announced plans to run for the Ward 1 seat being vacated by Scott Allen. Thanepohn, an Internet professional for CryoLife in Kennesaw, is the former co-president of the Marietta Charter School PTA.
Already announced in Ward 1 is investment trader Logan Weber, a 1997 graduate of Marietta High.
The latest candidate to announce for Ward 5 is Doug Martin, 56, a 1972 graduate of Marietta High School, which his 16-year-old twin son and daughter now attend. He created a marketing firm, Diversified Educational Motivational Marketing, in 2007. Incumbent Ward 5 board member Jeannie Carter has announced plans to step down this fall after 16 years on the board.
Already announced for the Ward 5 seat is Stuart Fleming, 32, who works in strategy and operations for Coca-Cola Enterprises.
Ward 6 board member Tom Smith, like Carter and Allen, is stepping down off the board this fall. Two candidates have surfaced to succeed Smith. Thomas Cheater is general manager of North American operations at BT Global, a telecom services provider. His twins attend the Marietta Sixth Grade Academy. Michelle Cooper Kelly is a manager with Anheuser-Bush, with a son at the Marietta Center for Advanced Academics and a daughter at Sawyer Road Elementary.
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umm. . I'll be! Not a peep! Not a single peep from Ms. MacKenzie? Ms. MacKenzie apparently reads all of the mail on this site, and she evidences her eagerness to respond with her comments, so surely she had read my warm invitation to "her"?
Does anyone know where I can find "Ms. MacKenzie"?
She was issued an invitation to contact me but I have not heard a single peep from Ms. MacKenzie?
Ms. MacKenzie? Hello? Are you there, Ms. MacKenzie?
Charles Wilson, Jr. of Marietta and many more like him are why we need tax reform.
Let people endorse you who are honest and law abiding.
HOWEVER.
There is a reason there were so many undesirable housing projects in the immediate downtown area: It's a traffic nightmare due to a maliciously conceived Loop 120.
The Loop goes where it does because certain people wanted the property values lowered. Ok, that happened. You bought it all up. You built fancy condo's and townhomes and McMansions. ANd yet... The LOOP 120 is still here causing abject misery to everyone!
WHO WILL MAN UP AND FINISH THE LOOP 120 AROUND AROUND AROUND AROUND AROUND MARIETTA RATHER THAT RIGHT THROUGH DOWNTOWN?
Our biggest problem is what amounts to an interstate amount of traffic flowing through the core neighborhoods.
You chased away the people who will live here with all this traffic. NOW WHAT?