Politics & Government

To Commission Chair Candidates: What's Your Best Achievement?

Both Douglas County GOP Board of Commission Chair candidates, Rita Rainwater and Tom Worthan, answered questions at a candidate forum on June 28.

Rita Rainwater, a former Douglas County Commission Chairman is challenging incumbent and, current Chairman, Tom Worthan.

Rainwater was the Douglas County Commission Chairman from Jan. 1992 to Dec. 2004. She was the county manager of Meriwether County since serving on the Douglas Commission.

Worthan has been the Douglas County Commission Chairman since 2004, defeating Rainwater to earn the seat.

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The Republican primary is July 31. The winner of that election will face Democrat Romona Jackson Jones in the Nov. 6 election.

The attached videos are of both candidates answering the following questions, posed by Moderator Perry McGuire:

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"Each of you have served in elected public office. What do you consider your best achievement while in office and why?"

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Douglasville Patch will publish more video of the forum over the next few days.

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