Except for a brief period, Albany Herald Editor Carlton Fletcher has been a newspaperman, working as Sports Writer/Columnist for the weekly Ocilla Star, as Sports Writer/Sports Editor with The Tifton Gazette, and as Sports Writer/Copy Editor/News Reporter/Features Editor and Editor of the paper. He has won numerous awards for sports, news, business and column writing, including a first-place Business Writing award in last year’s Georgia Press Association awards competition.
Somebody sent me an email Wednesday morning that said, “I’m sure you’re happy now that Democrats swept all the top positions in Georgia and took control of the U.S. House and Senate. You just wait; our country is headed to hell.”
Georgia became part of a historic blue wave that swept the nation Tuesday, returning a sitting Democratic senator to Washington and electing the nation’s first-ever African American female governor.
They came from all over the city -- witches, princesses, Ninja warriors, Cats in Hats, axe-wielding demons, skeletons, policemen, Ninja Turtles, Spider-men, demon fearleaders, all kinds of super heroes and one spot-on, dead-letter-perfect miniature Erkle clone.
This is the time of year most politicians are either gearing up for the challenges that await them on Election Day or resting on their laurels, enjoying the last couple of months or so of calm before the hoopla surrounding the legislative session starts up.
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