Charlice Byrd, a Republican who represents Cherokee County in the Georgia House of Representatives, announced her candidacy for the Georgia Senate District 32 seat.
That’s a newly drawn seat that has contained most of East Cobb but will include Woodstock and part of Cherokee County following reapportionment.
Byrd’s campaign website can be found here.
Kay Kirkpatrick, an East Cobb Republican, has held that office since 2017.
Byrd was in the legislature from 2005-2013, and was a paid staffer for the Donald Trump presidential campaign in 2016. She won her old seat District 20 back in the 2020 elections.
She said she’s running for the state senate because “if the Democrats win in 2022, they will have control of both our State and our Nation. Our local communities are next in line. We cannot afford to let the Stacey Abrams Liberals and Joe Biden RINOs control our destiny, drain our bank accounts and trample our freedoms.”
Byrd is a former president of the Cherokee Republican Women’s Club and served on the Executive Committee for the Georgia Republican Party.
As a lawmaker, she worked on reforms in the Georgia foster care system and on election security issues. She and her husband live in Woodstock and they attend the First Baptist Church of Woodstock.
Georgia Senate reapportionment sliced up East Cobb into four districts. District 32 stretches up to southern and western Cherokee County.
District 56, currently represented by Republican John Albers of North Fulton, will include northeast Cobb.
District 6, which will cut into southern areas of East Cobb, will have a new senator, as incumbent Sen. Jen Jordan is running for Georgia Attorney General.
Some areas of East Marietta will remain in District 33, represented by Democratic Sen. Michael Rhett.
In her announcement, Byrd did not reference Kirkpatrick, who has indicated she will be running for re-election in 2022. Last weekend she participated in the Woodstock Christmas parade with the Young Republicans of Cherokee.
In a social media posting after reapportionment ended Kirkpatrick said that “I am looking forward to representing Cherokee County and Marietta City in addition to East Cobb. I will work hard to get to know my new constituents.”
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