Kay Morgan, a Republican who has announced her candidacy for Cobb Commission Chair, will be speaking in East Cobb next week.
She’s the featured guest at a Feb. 20 meeting of the Association of Mature American Citizens at the East Cobb Library (4880 Lower Roswell Road) starting at 6:45 p.m.
Morgan, a realtor from West Cobb, is the only Republican thus far to announce her campaign, with qualifying taking place the first week in March (her campaign website).
She is vying for the seat held by Democrat Lisa Cupid, who last year announced she would be seeking a second term.
Morgan is a first-time candidate who has the backing of influential figures in Cobb business and Republican political circles. They include former Cobb Chamber of Commerce president John Loud, who’s also taking a major role in the Cobb Board of Education campaign of GOP candidate John Cristadoro in Post 5 in East Cobb.
Morgan, who has been involved with Cobb Executive Women and Leadership Cobb, has reported raising more than $102,000 in 2023, including a $22,000 personal loan, and has more than $82,000 in cash on hand.
An amended disclosure report filed by the Cupid campaign on Feb. 7 noted more than $54,000 in fundraising, but it’s unclear how much cash on hand she has, according to an addendum statement that her campaign said would be updated.
The 2024 election includes most countywide elected offices, in which all but one are held by Democrats (Tax Commissioner Carla Jackson, who has been elected as a member of the GOP the last two elections, has switched to the Democratic Party for this year’s ballot).
According to its website, the Association of Mature American Citizens is a conservative advocacy organization founded in 2007 and that “is here to protect and defend the sanctity of our Constitution and fidelity to our Nation’s Founders. We are unabashed in our fight to protect freedom of the individual, free speech and exercise of religion, equality of opportunity, sanctity of life, rule of law, and love of family.”
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