FORSYTH COUNTY, Ga. – Carter Barrett has built a 30-year reputation of getting things done for the community from the startup of Community Business Bank during the great recession to rebuilding the Rotary Club of Lanier Forsyth and Leadership Forsyth. Now he would like to take that record of success to the state capitol as the District 24 State Representative.

It was during that recession that 89 Georgia banks failed and the Wall Street Journal labeled the state of Georgia as the Chernobyl of Banking.

“In the seven years we were open, I built one of the cleanest banks in America,” Barret said. “When we sold the bank to Community and Southern Bank in 2015, we delivered a very good outcome for our investors at a time when banks were dropping like flies.” Before the sale, the bank received a 5-star ranking from BauerFinancial, the highest a bank can receive.

A banker by profession, Barrett said he understands government and knows his way around the Gold Dome. I’ve dealt with big government, the FDIC and the Georgia Department of Banking and Finance.” he said. 

 In 2019, he was honored to receive a resolution from the Georgia House of Representatives commending him for generating nearly $2 billion in new business investment and 25,000 jobs in Forsyth County and for his contribution and leadership to civic organizations including the Rotary Club of Lanier-Forsyth.

Regarding the issue that has festered between parents and the school board for mort than a year, Barrett said, “We are not going to have pornography in our schools and we are not going to indoctrinate our children with liberal dogma.”

Barrett is now the North Atlanta Marketing President of Affinity Bank and a founding member of Dime Capital.