School Board Incumbent Paul Womack Set for Runoff
Womack received less than 50% in Tuesday's primary.
Three contenders were vying to unseat District 4 incumbent Paul Womack in Tuesday's election for the DeKalb County Board of Education, but it looks like a runoff in three weeks will decide the issue. Womack, who was first elected in 1981, received 6,705 votes and 46.60% percent, compared to his closest challenger Jim McMahan, who received 4,019 votes. All 189 precincts have reported, and early, in-person votes have also been counted. The Board of Elections has started the process of counting more than 5,000 absentee-by-mail ballots. Speaking to Patch after the results came in, Womack said, "Well, there's going to be a runoff. On the whole, people sort of voted for 'out with the old, in with the new'." He also faced challenges from Tom …
Jim Kinney
12:01 pm on Tuesday, August 21, 2012
When a person who is supposed to be making decisions about resource allocations for public schools keeps repeating the mantra "cut taxes" as the prime reason they think pepople should vote for them, they sound like typical tea-partiers. DCSS have never had the financial resources to do an adequate job much less a great job. The idea of decreasing school resources to score political points with … more ›