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Gwinnett’s shift from red toward blue came earlier than expected and is likely to continue
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Brew pub to open in Duluth BY CURT YEOMANS curt.yeomans@gwinnettdailypost.com
NEW HUE
Duluth officials hope their newest addition to their Parsons Alley project will bring the inside the perimeter, or ITP, vibe of places like Decatur to their little corner of Gwinnett County. The owners of Decatur’s Brick Store Pub are coming to Duluth to open a new brew pub, reportedly to be called Good Word Brew Pub, in the Parsons Alley restaurant and entertainment district. The approximately 7,500-square-foot space will be one of the largest, if not the largest, restaurants to go into Parson’s Alley to date. “We think this is good news for Gwinnett County as a whole because creates that idea that Gwinnett is that place where inside the perimeter wants to come visit and see what’s going on,” Duluth Economic Development Director Christopher McGahee said. “We’re the Decatur of the north, I guess you could say.”
See BREW PUB, Page 8A
BY CURT YEOMANS curt.yeomans @gwinnettdailypost.com
This wasn’t supposed to be the year a Democratic presidential candidate won Gwinnett County — at least that’s what Charles Bullock thought. Bullock, a political science professor at the University of Georgia, has been watching trends in Gwinnett for a while. The county would “turn blue” at some point in the near future, he thought, but he theorized that the county wasn’t ready to make the leap to supporting a Democrat for president just yet. “It’s a county I’ve been keeping my eye on, along with others, in terms of the increasing diverse registration figures coming out of the county, but I thought Republicans would hold onto it this year and probably 2020 would be when it flipped,” Bullock said. “It’s four years
earlier than I thought, anyway.” Tuesday’s results are a sign of a major shift taking place in Gwinnett politics where Republicans hold a lot of power, but are gradually losing ground to Democrats at the ballot box. Gwinnett Democrats’ biggest victory was Hillary Clinton winning the county in the presidential race with nearly 51 percent of the vote. Not even her husband, who narrowly won Georgia in 1992, ever won Gwinnett. “Historically, Gwinnett has been a Republican county that voted very Republican,” local political observer John Richards said. “Back in the George W. Bush days, See SHIFT, Page 8A
GWINNETT PRESIDENTIAL RESULTS Gwinnett presidential ELECTION election results PERCENTAGE OF THE VOTE
70 60 50
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I think we have arrived. ... We know we’re 53-56 percent majority minority, so it’s only a matter of time that we should be competing.” — Gwinnett County Democratic Party Chairman Jim Shealey
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Between now and the next election cycle, we need to put together a blueprint for winning elections in the future.”
10 0
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2008
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YEAR OF ELECTION Republican
Democrat
Norcross debt collector gets five years for fraud REUTERS
— Gwinnett County Republican Party Chairman Rich Carithers
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Duluth’s Parsons Alley entertainment district is shown in this artist’s rendering of what the final project will look like. City officials announced the owners of Decatur-based Brick Store Pub will open Good Word Brew Pub in Parsons Alley. (Special Photo)
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The owner of a Norcross-based debt collection company was sentenced on Thursday to five years in prison for engaging in what prosecutors said was a scheme to shake down more than 6,000 financially strapped consumers nationwide into making payments to his firm. John Williams, who owned Williams, Scott & Associates LLC, was John Todd Williams sentenced by U.S. District Judge Richard Sullivan in Manhattan, N.Y. after a federal jury in July found him guilty of conspiring to commit wire fraud. Sullivan, who also ordered the
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