Former Georgia State Rep. Meagan Hanson on Monday announced her campaign for the 6th District Congressional seat.
Hanson, an attorney who represented Brookhaven in the legislature from 2017-18, is a Republican who said in a release she’s running on a conservative platform to counter a House Democratic majority that includes two-term 6th District incumbent U.S. Rep. Lucy McBath.
The 6th District includes East Cobb, North Fulton, Sandy Springs and North DeKalb.
“With the direction our country is going, the America I had growing up will not be the same America my kids will live in. I’m not content to watch this nation’s promise slip away,” Hanson said in a campaign release. “We need a Congresswoman who will fight for Georgia’s families, not Nancy Pelosi’s radical agenda. I’ll work every day to lower taxes, end out-of-control government spending, and get America back on track.”
Her campaign website can be found by clicking here.
Hanson is an attorney who is the executive director of Georgians for Lawsuit Reform, an arm of the Georgia Chamber of Commerce, and is a conservative commentator and lobbyist.
She said her priorities include curbing government spending, strengthening border controls, boosting law enforcement resources and fighting what she calls “the radical left agenda and cancel culture.”
“Conservative values aren’t just a talking point for me. They are what I’ve been fighting for my entire life,” she said in the statement. “With liberals like Lucy McBath in office, our communities have felt the full force of the left’s wish list: higher taxes, bigger government, more crime, a crisis at our border, and a radical cancel culture movement that has cost our local economy over $100 million. I’ve never backed down—and I’m ready for this fight because my family’s future, and the future of those in our community, depend on it.”
McBath is one of two Congressional Democrats from metro Atlanta who are targets for GOP pickups in the 2022 elections.
She unseated Republican U.S. Rep. Karen Handel in 2018, then defeated Handel again in 2020.
But a major factor factor in 2022 figures to be Congressional redistricting. The East Cobb area remains a GOP stronghold in a 6th District that has been trending Democratic elsewhere.
For now, Hanson, a resident of Sandy Springs, is the only Republican specifically running in the 6th District. Eric Welsh, a retired Army officer and former Coca-Cola Co. executive, announced his candidacy in May, but on July 1 announced his withdrawal.
No Democrats have announced for the 6th District seat.
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