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Long lines, equipment malfunctions plague Georgia election day By CARSON COOK carson@appenmediagroup.com DEKALB COUNTY, Ga. — Stories of long lines to vote are far from unheard of in metro Atlanta, but paired with new voting equipment and a pandemic, Georgia has received national criticism for its June 9 election. Because of COVID-19, about 30 polling places in DeKalb County were moved or combined, creating confusion and long waits for some, even as hundreds of thousands of voters made use of early or absentee voting. Furthermore, for most poll workers June 9 was the first time operating the state’s new voting machines. A number of sites experienced technical challenges throughout the day. The Superior Court of DeKalb County ordered the extension
of voting hours from 7 p.m. to 9:30 p.m. throughout the county, and at one location in Decatur to 10:10 p.m. In a statement, DeKalb County CEO Michael Thurmond called the election day malfunctions “an attack on the democratic process” and voter disenfranchisement. “The Secretary of State’s office has alleged these issues resulted from a failure of county leadership,” Thurmond stated. “If there was a failure of leadership, it starts where the buck should stop, at the top. The eradication of any ‘learning curve’ rests squarely at the feet of the Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger and his office.” Thurmond called for a comprehensive investigation of voting issues and the Secretary of State’s administration.
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View results online The following is a summary of the unofficial election votes as of June 12. Results will be updated at thecrier.net as absentee ballots continue to be counted. U.S. Senate Wednesday night, Jon Ossoff declared victory in the Democratic primary to decide who will challenge U.S. Sen. David Perdue this November. With 51 percent of the vote, Ossoff, the documentary filmmaker who received national attention for his 2017 attempt to take Georgia’s 6th congressional district, narrowly avoided a runoff with the runner up, former Columbus Mayor Teresa Tomlinson, who garnered just shy of 16 percent.
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U.S. House With 75 percent of votes, former U.S. Rep. Karen Handel decidedly beat out four competitors to be the Republican candidate for Georgia’s 6th congressional district, which includes north Fulton and parts of DeKalb and Cobb counties. November’s race will be a rematch; Democrat U.S. Rep Lucy McBath ousted Handel from the seat in 2018. DeKalb County Sheriff In the DeKalb County Sheriff special election to determine who will serve until the end of the year, no candidate received a majority. Appointed incumbent Melody Maddox received the most votes, about 46 percent and will face Ruth Stringer, who received about 14 percent of the vote in a runoff. It is a similar story in the Democratic primary to determine who will run for a full term this November. Maddox and Stringer were once again the two highest vote earners with similar percentages of the vote. Only one candidate ran on the Republican ticket, Harold Dennis.
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DeKalb Board of Education Certified public accountant Anna Hill won 63 percent of the vote against Andrew Ziffer to represent District 1, which includes Dunwoody, on the DeKalb County Board of Education. DeKalb Board of Commissioners For District 1, Commissioner Nancy Jester was unopposed on the Republican ticket. No Democrat received a majority. Cynthia Yaxon was the highest vote earner with 40 percent of the vote, ac, followed by Doraville City Councilman Robert Patrick at 27 percent. For District 6, a super district that covers the western half of the county, Maryan Ahmad won 40 percent of the vote, followed by former Clarkson Mayor Ted Terry at 33 percent. DeKalb Tax Commissioner Incumbent Irvin Johnson will hold onto his seat, garnering 67 percent of the vote against social worker Roslyn McCaskill.
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GEORGIA — Roswell State Rep. Mary Robichaux and Democratic House Caucus Chairman James Beverly hosted a virtual town hall June 11 to discuss police and criminal justice reform. Earlier that day Georgia Democrats unveiled the “Georgia Justice Act,” a package of law enforcement policies in response the protests that have erupted across the country in recent weeks. The legislation would require all police to wear and use body cameras, limit no knock warrants and police chases, ban rubber bullets and choke holds, provide post-traumatic stress disorder training to police, increase reporting and accountability standards and require a special prosecutor in police prosecutions to eliminate potential conflicts of interest. Democrats are also pushing for the state to pass a hate crimes bill, repeal citizen’s arrest and stand your ground laws, reduce marijuana penalties, allow felons who have completed their sentences to vote and remove qualified immunity from officers to make it easier for victims of excessive force to bring a lawsuit against them. Robichaux described the package as “aggressive, but very much needed.” The minority party has attempted unsuccessfully to pass many of these policies in past sessions. Last year, a hate crimes bill passed with bipartisan support in the state house but was held up in committee in the senate. Georgia is currently one of only a few states in the nation that does not have a hate crimes law. Following the killing of Ahmaud Arbery, an unarmed black jogger in Brunswick, passing such legislation has gained momentum. The Metro Atlanta
This conversation is long overdue, but at least we’re having it now.” JAMES BEVERLY Democratic House Caucus Chairman
Chamber and Georgia Chamber of Commerce jointly urged the legislature to act. The bill on the table, H.B. 426, would grant judges the ability to impose an enhanced sentence if the court proves beyond reasonable doubt that a crime was motivated by the victim’s actual or perceived race, religion, national origin, sexual orientation, gender or mental or physical disability. Beverly said he was most optimistic about passing the hate crimes legislation and reforming the citizens arrest code, which has been on the books since 1863. “Those are the two I really think can come out,” he said. “The other ones we’re going to push for very hard, and we’re going to see where our friends really stand.” Beverly, who has served in the State House for almost ten years, said the changes that seemed impossible when he was first elected are now on the table. “This conversation is long overdue, but at least we’re having it now,” Beverly said. “We need to let our police officers know we really respect you and love you, but those guys and ladies who cannot respect another human body probably should not be doing that job.”
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On the first trading day of the month, June 1, 2020, American, European, and Asian stock indexes moved up, ostensibly on signs that global activity LEWIS J. WALKER, CFP factory was recovering. U.S. indexes continued climbing June 2nd as traders seemed to discount violent protests across the country. Where we go from here in the 3rd quarter of the year as July approaches, is, at best, the subject of well-informed ruminations. Look at the daily stock charts in The Wall Street Journal or other sources. They seem to paint an optimistic picture, betting on a relatively quick recovery from the Covid-19 lockdown. On June 2, the Nasdaq Composite Index closed at 9608.37, only 2.1% below its 2/19/20 all-time high of 9817.18. The Dow Jones Industrial Average closed at 25742.65, 12.9% below the all-time high of 29551.42 reached 2/12/20. The S&P 500 index closed at 3080.82, 9% shy of its 2/19/20 all-time high of 3386.15. In looking forward relative to the S&P 500, keep in mind the influence of “big tech” on that index. The Big 5 tech behemoths, Amazon, Google, Apple, Microsoft, and Facebook, comprise 20% of the capitalization weighting of the S&P 500, which is why that index and the tech-heavy Nasdaq are closer to their record highs than the Dow. Since the Dow includes only 30 companies, and not exactly the largest U.S. firms by market capitalization, the S&P 500 index generally is considered to be more representative of the American stock market and our broader economy. The question is, will mega tech-related stocks continue to lead as the recovery rolls on? The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) opines it could take up to ten years for the economy to recover from the pandemic and shutdowns. Skeptics might note that in a September 9, 2008, report the CBO projected real GDP growth would slow in 2008-2009, but remain positive with unemployment rising to plateau at just above 6%. One week later Lehman Brothers collapsed, leading to a major recession. The stock market tanked, unemployment soared. Your personal investment philosophy and risk-taking profile should not be driven by forecasts! Much of what props up stock prices are forecasts of future earnings. Coming out of the shutdown, earnings forecasts are cloudy and likely to stay that way for awhile. Based on a collapse of earnings
estimates, some analysts think the S&P 500 index is expensive. On 6/2/20 the WSJ reported that the index traded at a price/earnings (P/E) ratio of 21.6 times earnings, a level “last seen during the dot-com bubble” of the 1990s that ended with the early 2000 bust. By extension, ETFs (exchange traded funds) that mimic the S&P 500 can be viewed as relatively expensive. Some investors and money managers who were over-weighted with trend following passive investments during the bull market, are shifting toward a higher proportion of active strategies in the search for bargains. Mid- to smallcap stocks, such as those reflected in the Russell 2000 stock index, thought to better represent what’s happening on Main Street USA, are getting increased attention. International stocks are being researched for relative bargains. Regardless of the broad brush, the question is, “How much risk do you wish to take or need to take going forward?” Diversification became a yawn inducing subject during the long bull run led by large cap, tech-oriented behemoths. Going forward, how should your portfolio be allocated? Despite low yields on savings deposits and money market funds, should you beef up reserve funds, what we’ve for years called a Freedom Fund? We read of investors badly hurt going into the pandemic as they weren’t well padded from a cash and fixed income standpoint so as to preclude significant losses. For investors ten years or less away from an assumed retirement date, or those now retired, the pandemic brought the realities of mortality into focus since deaths from Covid-19 were disproportionate among those age 65 plus and/or those with existing health challenges. Do you need to rethink living and testamentary estate planning? Should you get with your advisor to review wills, trusts, powers of attorney for assets and health care, advance directives? Have you reviewed life insurance policies to be sure they’re performing as originally projected? Black swan events impact economies and markets periodically, but personal “black swans” strike individuals and families every day given the vagaries of life. Business owner, is your succession plan, your business continuity plan, well structured, in place, and up-to-date? As you come out of whatever you experienced during the pandemic’s interruption, forget about losses to life as it was. Focus on what will be. Seek new ideas, cultivate new energies, harness new resources, master new tools. Your Covid-19 reset is available now for achieving far more than you ever did in the past. Go for it!
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Kudos to the Peachtree Middle election team I am a poll manager at Peachtree Middle School. I am writing in response to all the negative publicity about the past election. My precinct did not have the delays as others did. My team worked well together. Yes, we did have a few minor problems, but my team pulled together and we had a successful day. I was not aware of any problems in the county until I got home and saw it on the news. I would like to commend Latasha Howard and her leadership in getting us ready for the election. My team was Billie Williams, Irv Zisselman, Debbie Arogeti, Jody Piratsky and Shannice Bennerson. I thought we had a successful day and I wanted to report something positive about the election. Cheryl Dunbar Dunwoody
Rallying cannot replace loving your neighbor As a black woman, I do not support Black Lives Matter. All these people rallying against racism, namely the white ones, may want to take a second, third or even fourth look in the mirror. As the June 2 rally was winding down and people were leaving, I was walking toward the now dispersing
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crowd. With the predominantly white crowd yelling “Black Lives Matter” for eight hours, I thought me walking on the same sidewalk would have elicited a different response than what I received. Not one of those white people said anything to me. One older lady with a handwritten sign in fluorescent green looked like she was going to have a heart attack at my sight; others put their head down and avoided me like the plague. Experiencing this complete hypocrisy, I called a few out on it, to which there was no reply. What this crowd experienced was white guilt, not a genuine concern for black people. I see and say hello to many white people in Dunwoody all the time, and to my relief, none of them were faking a love for black people June 2, shouting and holding signs. They are normal and do not feel guilty because of their skin color. They shouldn’t. The screaming crowd had something to prove, and they failed miserably. They spoke to the black people that joined them, I suppose, but not even a wave, nod of the head acknowledging my existence as I walked by about 30 of them. As I mentioned earlier, I am no fan of Black Lives Matter, as ALL lives matter! These people should have listened to Jesus when he said, “Love your neighbor as yourself,” Matthew 22:39. No rally necessary! Angela Johnson Dunwoody
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Stop saying ‘I’m not racist’ A few weeks ago, I accidentally locked my keys in my car. I have AAA, but I knew from experience that it would probably take them about an hour to get to my location. I noticed a police car CARSON COOK sitting in the Kroger Editor carson@appenmediagroup.com parking lot where I was marooned, so I waved the officer over and explained the situation. At one point, I had three officers helping me, even though I wasn’t in any danger. At no point did they ask to see my ID or any proof I owned the car they were breaking into. Would my experience have been the same if my skin color were different? I can’t know for sure. But I do know that every black person I have listened to has stories of negative interactions with law enforcement: times they were followed in a store, or treated with suspicion walking in a nice neighborhood, or pulled over in a traffic stop and thought they wouldn’t make it home. If I were black, would I have even asked for the officer’s help in the first place? Or would a lifetime of seeing faces like mine on TV because they were killed by cops leave me unable to trust law enforcement at all? It struck me, standing in the hot summer sun that day, that I was likely experiencing white privilege, but I am sure there are thousands of moments in my life where I received some subtle benefit because of my race and had no awareness of it. The term “white privilege” usually evokes a knee-jerk defensiveness from white people. I know I have been guilty of it. “I didn’t mean it like that,” I want to say. “I didn’t ask to be privileged.” “I’m not racist.” Sometimes I cringe whenever I hear
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that phrase. “I’m not racist.” What I think people are really saying is that they’re not a neo-nazi or a member of the KKK. They’ve never dressed in blackface or used the n-word. It’s good that they’re not those things. They should keep not doing those things. But it’s not enough. What I’ve learned, through a lot of listening and reading and swallowing humility pills, is that someone can ardently believe that everyone should be treated equally regardless of race, and therefore think of themselves as “not racist,” but still 1) benefit from systemic racism and 2) have implicit bias. Research has shown that everybody, regardless of race, education or political beliefs, has implicit bias. It’s something instinctual, often unconscious. When your heart rate speeds up when you see a black man in a hoodie at night, or you refer to a doctor with male pronouns without thinking about it, that’s implicit bias. Implicit racial biases become explicit racist behavior if we don’t learn how to recognize and counteract them. The black man in a hoodie has cops called on him. Someone with an accent gets passed over for a promotion, because we assume they’re less intelligent. Saying “I’m not racist,” accomplishes nothing. It’s an attempt to absolve ourselves of culpability, when we white folks need to admit we are all, at least a little bit, even if completely unintentionally, part of the problem. Only then can we do better. In the wake of George Floyd’s killing, lots of police departments in our coverage area have released statements condemning the officers involved in the death and touting the steps they have taken to prevent similar incidents from happening in their jurisdiction: things like use of force policies, body cameras, and de-escalation training. It’s good that they’re doing those things. They should keep doing those things. It’s also not enough. I guarantee that every police department in this country, if it really took time to evaluate its policies, could find a way to do better. Maybe that means more training and accountability. Maybe it means a bigger shift in the way we think about public safety, investing in mental healthcare and addiction treatment, outside of the framework of crime and punishment. Centuries of institutional racism can’t be undone overnight or with a hashtag, or with weeks of cross-country protests, or even after decades of fighting for it. So all of us, on the individual and institutional level, must continually look for ways to do better.
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Chattahoochee Handweavers Guild grants inaugural award DUNWOODY, Ga. — The Chattahoochee Handweavers Guild has bestowed their first Betty and Clay Smith Award to Keneddi Horn, a recent University of North Georgia graduate, in May. The award, given to a fiber arts student who has demonstrated outstanding work in weaving, is named after Betty and Clay Smith, early members of the guild who helped the organization grow. Betty Smith started the classes still being given at the Spruill Center for the Arts and continues to weave and teach Solution in Jekyll Island, Georgia. A P E D
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THE CITY OF DUNWOODY, GEORGIA NOTICE OF ADMINISTRATIVE DETERMINATION On June 3, 2020 the Community Development Director conditionally approved an Administrative Permit to permit to allow a type-B home occupation for the teaching of swim lessons entirely within the principle dwelling, pursuant to Zoning Ordinance Section 27-436, at 4060 Chestnut Ridge Drive, Dunwoody, GA 30338. Any person aggrieved by the decision may appeal within 30 days of the decision.
COMMUNITY MEETING There will be a Community Meeting regarding an application to rezone property located at 5308, 5318 & 5328 Roberts Drive in the City of Dunwoody from the current R-100 (Single-dwelling Residential) zoning district to R-50 (Single-dwelling Residential) zoning district for the purpose of developing a 15 lot “empty nester” (55+ age restricted) housing community. The meeting will be held at 6:00 pm on Monday July 6, 2020 at 5328 Roberts Drive, Dunwoody Georgia 30338.
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Clockwise from top left, moderator Tamira Moon, Northside Hospital’s Dr. Kathleen Funk, Morehouse School of Medicine representative Brian Rivers and Emory Saint Joseph’s Hospital CEO Heather Dextor discuss how the coronavirus pandemic has impacted the healthcare industry.
Chamber: Continued from Page 1 edented challenge of COVID-19. She also urged the community to not let the pandemic deter them from seeking the care they need. “Unfortunately, with a lot of people in the community not wearing masks and social distancing, at this point you’re more likely to get COVID-19 from a community source or close contact than by coming to the hospital,” Funk said. “If you need to come, please come.” Going forward, the panelist speculated technology and tele-medicine will play a much larger role in care delivery. “We at Emory have been working on
Dunwoody High grad earns rank of Eagle Scout DUNWOODY, Ga. — Dunwoody High School graduate James MacElroy recently earned the rank of Eagle Scout. For his Eagle project, MacElroy completed a granite stairway leading from the sidewalk on Nandina Lane up to the top of the hill in front of the church. The staircase replaced a slippery trail in the area. He
tele-health for about 10 years now,” Dextor said. “It’s been very slow progress. We feel like we’ve made more progress in 10 weeks than in the previous 10 years.” However, not all of the lasting impacts will be positive, Funk explained. “Fiscally, we’re seeing hospitals, especially rural hospitals, closing their doors,” she said. “Some hospitals just like some other businesses will not recover. While the government is trying to help out, it’s a drop in the bucket.” The next event in the Returning to the Perimeter Series will be Thursday, June 25 at 11 a.m. with Dunwoody Mayor Lynn Deutsch. Deutsch will discuss what she’s learned from the past three months and what’s ahead for the remainder of the year. led scouts in clearing the area of debris, weeds and roots and constructing the stairway. MacElroy is a member of Troop 266 chartered to Dunwoody United Methodist Church. He plans to attend Auburn University in the fall studying Marketing and Advertising.
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PUBLIC NOTICE Dental One Associates of Dunwoody, 5901-B Peachtree Dunwoody Road NE, Suite 250, Atlanta, GA 30328, telephone number (770) 698-9133, will close permanently on July 1, 2020. After this date, patient records will be transferred to Imagix Dental of Norcross, located at 5270 Peachtree Parkway, Suite 101, Norcross, GA 30092, telephone number (770) 448-9333. If you have any questions or wish to request copies of your records, please contact Imagix Dental of Norcross at (770) 448-9333.
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