A political action committee that supports Democratic women running for the Georgia General Assembly has endorsed to two candidates in East Cobb.
The Georgia WIN List announced that it has placed first-term State. Rep. Mary Frances Williams on its “protect” list of incumbents for the 2020 election and is supporting Luisa Wakeman, who is running again for the District 43 seat held by longtime Republican State Rep. Sharon Cooper.
Last year, Wakeman lost by less than 792 votes in a mostly-East Cobb district that Cooper, the House Health and Human Services Committee chairwoman, has represented since 1997.
Williams, who lives in Marietta, upset GOP incumbent Sam Teasley in 2018 in District 37, which includes some of Northeast Cobb. She was declared the winner in a recount, with a 137-vote margin.
Georgia WIN held an endorsement event Thursday at the Georgia state capitol, focusing on 12 candidates who either won seats from Republican incumbents in 2018 or who came close.
Qualifying for 2020 legislative campaigns will take place in early March.
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