John Luchetti campaigns for House District 28
News April 23, 2022
FORSYTH COUNTY, Ga. – Republican John Luchetti is the blue collar candidate in the Georgia House District 28 race. He is a contractor who has never run for an elected office. His campaign is almost 100 percent self funded and he has no campaign manager to help guide him through the political process.
But he believes very strongly in the issue of school choice. When the new House District 28 was created, he saw an opportunity to fight for that issue and he stepped in to fight for that issue.
John, age 42, is married with twin sons age 21, and a three-year-old daughter, who attends Horizon Christian Academy.
“School choice is my driving force,” he said. “I’ve been told that we don’t need that in Forsyth County because we have some of the best schools in the state. But as a business owner, I know what makes my industry better is competition. If the schools had competition, I would argue they would be even better.” John also believes that when a student chooses to attend a private school, the money the state provides for a student’s education should follow them.
Like most conservatives, he believes in smaller government and less governmental oversight.
“We were lucky here in Georgia to have fewer lockdown days,” he said. “But we could just as easily have been like California or New York and still be locked down which is why I believe in less government oversight. I also don’t believe in pushing vaccines on people, especially children.”
He is one of the candidates who will participate in next week’s District 28 Forsyth County Republican Party debate
Brent Cox wants state government to operate more like a business
News March 19, 2022
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FORSYTH COUNTY, Ga. – Republican Brent Cox, a family man, football coach, certified teacher and hardworking entrepreneur who has owned, managed, and led business ventures for over 24 years, announced his campaign for House District 28 last week.
“Guided by conservative, common-sense principles, I aim to make our state government work more like a business and make the tough decisions,” he said. “For example, in the face of unprecedented growth in our area, I am committed to working with other business and civic leaders to develop a comprehensive and cost-effective growth plan for the next 10 to 15 years and ensure we receive the funding at the state level to implement it.
“This plan should embrace economic opportunity and private investment, which will lead to more jobs without overwhelming our current infrastructure or raising taxes,” Cox added. “Less is more. Less government. More freedom.”
After attending Milton High School, Cox graduated from the University of Georgia in 1994 then began a successful career in the food service industry where he designed, engineered, and sold ventilation hood systems to chain restaurants on a global scale for over two decades. He now serves as the President of Simple Mission in Cumming, a company that serves as a manufacturer’s representative in the food service industry.
Cox says roads and education will be key issues in the 2022 campaign.
On roads: He said, “For District 28, I believe the most important issue is roads. Ensuring we finish the roads in our community – Highway 9 to Browns Bridge, Matt Highway and roads like it into Hall County, making sure we get the proper funding to fix these roads is very important. Also, making sure our infrastructure is up to speed is important.”
On education: He supports school choice. “I believe parents should have the ability to make decisions as to what is best for their children. They should be able to choose a public school, private school, or home schooling.”
On CRT and DEI: He said, “I do not believe CRT and DEI should be part of the curriculum in schools. CRT divides people and it doesn’t teach that we are all human. Let’s stop dividing people.”
On obscenity in public school libraries: Cox said he wants books and other material that contain obscene and explicit material removed. “There is free speech. I get it. But, we have do what is in the best interest of the kids.”
On transgender athletes participating in girls’ or women’s sports: Cox said, “Absolutely not.” He spent 12 years as a football coach in Forsyth and Dawson County at the high school and middle school level. “As a coach, we have made great strides in women’s and girls’ sports at the high school, collegiate and olympic level. Ultimately we would be robbing the women and girls of the opportunity or motivation to compete and to feel like they have a fair chance. To me, it would be totally against Title IX.”
Brent and his wife Tonya have been married since 1993. Together, they have three children (Anson, Wesley, and Lydia), one daughter-in-law (Teresa), and one grandchild (Hannah). Brent and Tonya attend Free Chapel Church in Gainesville.
Highly-decorated U.S. Army veteran Lannom will campaign for State House
Featured Stories, News March 15, 2022
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FORSYTH COUNTY, Ga. — DA Lannom is a highly-decorated, retired military officer who is running for Georgia State House, District 28. To say he has a heart for service would be a massive understatement.
Twenty-two years in the U.S. Army with two combat tours followed by nine years as a consultant serving Defense Department clients in Okinawa, Japan and throughout the Korean Peninsula attest to his love of country and commitment to public service.
Lannom was commissioned a second lieutenant in the infantry upon graduation from the University of Missouri – Rolla in 1986. During his military career he earned a Master’s Degrees in Petroleum Engineering, Engineering Management, Business Administration, and Legal Studies in Oil, Gas, and Energy from University of Alaska Fairbanks, University of Maryland, and University of Oklahoma.
During his career, he was deployed on combat tours in Operation Desert Shield/Desert Storm in 1990 and 1991 as well as Operation Iraqi Freedom in 2003.
His awards include the Bronze Star Medal with Oak Leaf Cluster, the Defense Meritorious Service Medal, the Army Meritorious Service Medal, the Army Commendation Medal with two Oak Leaf Clusters, the Joint Service Achievement Medal, the Army Achievement Medal, the National Defense Service Medal, numerous combat campaign medals, the Combat Infantry Badge, and Army Parachutist Badge.
He operates his own consulting LLC serving as the Director of Operations of a Service-Disabled Veteran-Owned small business and hopes to represent District 28 in the State House.
He says the key issues in the race are education, support for law enforcement and first responders and support for the U.S. and Georgia Constitutions.
“We have to protect the next generation,” he said during a recent appearance on the John Fredericks Show. “We’ve got to remove CRT, SEL, DEI and pornography from our school system. It goes deeper than that, we have got to protect the young ones in K-12.”
On supporting law enforcement and first responders, Lannom said, “We have to keep funding law enforcement but we also have to keep recidivists off the street. About 50 percent of the crime in our county is committed by repeat offenders from outside the county. At a state level, we have to get rid of district attorneys, prosecutors and judges that espouse what Sheriff Ron Freeman describes as a Hug-A-Thug mentality.”
He describes himself as a Constitutional Carry, right-to-life, right to work Republican who believes in freedom of thought and freedom of speech but warns that suppression of conservative speech is under attack and is a major issue that has to be defended.
McClellan will campaign for the new House seat in District 28
Featured Stories March 12, 2022
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FORSYTH COUNTY, Ga. – Blake McClellan qualified this week to run for State Representative in District 28, saying “I’m in this race to fight for the America we love. For far too long, we have had weak politicians at the Capitol that refuse to stand up for the values of conservative Georgians.”
McClellan is a graduate of Georgia Southern University, where he studied Business Administration, which prepared him for his current role as the CEO of a Medical Technology company that enables doctors to film their procedures and share them with colleagues worldwide.
While building his technology company from a concept to being a global leader, Blake traveled the world and even met the royal family in Bahrain — one of our nation’s allies in the Abraham Accords.
With his experience in technology and economics, McClellan said he will focus on election integrity while addressing the censorship issues by big tech.
“Our country is fighting the greatest political oppression of all time. As a parent, husband, Christian, and Georgia business owner, I could no longer sit back and watch our country destroyed. We must show up at the polls this May 24th and ensure our voices are heard.
Blake attributes his inspiration to serve our state to his wife Lacey, a teacher in Forsyth County, and his daughter Isabella.