Bobby Saxon "As a proud Democrat and candidate for Congress, Bobby is committed to serving America by serving the citizens of the 10th District. He’ll campaign in all 21 counties in the 10th District, talking to the voters, listening to their concerns, and working together to create an America that commands respect on the world stage, and promotes opportunity for all at home. Bobby knows that there is no problem so great that, with the hearts and minds of all Americans at work, it cannot be solved. As the campaign moves ahead, look for Bobby in your neighborhood, talking about his ideas and listening to yours." http://bobbysaxon.com/

James Marlow is a native of Lincolnton, Georgia. He worked in the sales staff of Lotus (which later became part of IBM), and worked for Yahoo as a marketing executive. While in college, James served as a Congressional Intern for former U.S. Congressman Doug Barnard. James Marlow announced his candidacy on April 3, 2007 after receiving support from the majority of the democratic county heads in the Georgia's 10th Ccongressional District. As Congressman, James says he will use his experience in business to bring new ideas to Washington that will help improve the lives of everyday people. He will focus on bringing high paying, high quality jobs to Northeast Georgia. "The working families of the Tenth District deserve real opportunities in their community so that they can make a good life for themselves. The children of the Tenth District deserve the chance to get a high quality education that will allow them to pursue their dreams. James also wants to make sure quality healthcare is available to everyone in the Tenth District." www.marlowforgeorgia.com

Denise Freeman, a Baptist minister, wife, mother of four and effective community activist has served the citizens of the 10th district for many years. She is a former member of the Lincoln County Board of Education and has served on many committees and boards in the district. She and her husband Barry, a school teacher, have been married for 24 years. Denise graduated from Franklin County HS, has a BA from Piedmont College in Demorest, GA and graduated from the Inter-denominational Theology Center in Atlanta, GA. Her campaign says,"While the state and country’s business are an integral part of a congressperson’s job, the unique connection Denise has to the needs of the average citizen of the 10th district is why she is the only choice that can speak to power and bring it to bear for the good of all and not just a select few." www.freemanforcongress2007.com

Evita Paschall was born in Augusta, Georgia, but lived in Thomson, Georgia during her childhood. She is a southern girl, although she spent a couple of years in Washington D.C., at Howard University. She’s spent all of her life in the 10th Congressional District of Georgia. Ms. Paschall is most likely the candidate to care about the people of the 10th district, especially the small towns, having lived in Thomson. The campaign motto is “putting the people of the 10th district first”. Ms. Paschall vows that she will have town meetings on major issues affecting the 10th district. Whatever her constituents tell her to do, that’s what she will do. www.voteevitapaschall.org

Lori Glinski is owner/broker/agent for White Oak Realty. An Oglethorpe County resident since 1992, she has served as Girl Scout Service Unit Director and Troop Leader, President of the Optimist Club, Band Booster Club President, Team Sponsor for the Rec. Department, and has been an active member of the Athletic Booster Club, the OCMS Parent Advisory Council and the OCHS School Council. She presently has one child in high school. “The future of kids is so important to me,” she says, “If the budget allowed, I feel there are more programs that could be implemented to the school system for the children...I would like to do something good for the community.”

Becky Vaughn, who narrowly lost in her bid for State Senate in 2004, has been a resident of Oconee County since 1995, where she serves as the President and CEO of the Georgia Council on Substance Abuse. She is a former middle school teacher, youth soccer coach, Board member of the Georgia School Age Care Association and the Oconee Area Resource Council, President of the Titan Foundation at North Oconee High School, and an active member of First Baptist Church, Athens. She says, “I believe we need a change—one that takes a new leader with a broad vision...I want to use my knowledge, skills, and leadership abilities to effectively serve as the voice of this dynamic community called the 113th.” www.beckyvaughn.org

Mike Horgan, an attorney since 1987, practices civil and criminal law in state and federal trial and appellate courts. A former officer in the U.S. Marine Corps, Horgan was an assistant District Governor of the Rotary, a director of the Washington-Wilkes Chamber of Commerce, past president of the Wilkes Chapter of the American Cancer Society, and is a member of St. Joseph's Catholic Church. He believes Georgia should make improving children's education and access to health care the state's top priorities: "Over the last four years, Governor Perdue and the General Assembly have cut over $1.25 billion from Georgia's schools, resulting in program cuts at our schools and higher property taxes for homeowners." He will be running against Mickey Channell, who recently left the Democratic Party to become a Republican.
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Mac Rawson's background includes experience in the farm-raised fish industry, seafood production and safety, conservation engineering, economic development and watershed management. He studied at UGA’s School of Forestry and Natural Resources: “The day I graduated with my doctorate, [my wife] Brenda stuck a briefcase in my hand, and told me to go to work.” Thirty-three years later, that work has eventually carried him back to Athens as Director of the University of Georgia Sea Grant College Program, from which he retired in the spring of 2006. He says he is running for State Senate because, “our families and our communities deserve better. I believe that this new 47th District deserves new leadership that works for all of us - not just the big corporations and special interests.” www.macrawson.com

Terry Holley is chairman of the Democratic Party in the 9th Congressional District, and has run for State House of Representatives twice in Columbia County-based districts (2000, 2002). He will be running against Republican Charlie Norwood, who had a lung transplant in 2004 and surgery for lung cancer last November, but says he's healthy. Holley, who is a jeweler in Grovetown, will oppose Interstate 3, the controversial proposed freeway that would run from Savannah to Knoxville, TN - much of the route through the congressional district - and push for a reformed health-care system and immigration policies. Health care and immigration have been major issues for Norwood, who's led efforts in Congress to tighten borders, make illegal immigration a felony and to deport the estimated 11 million illegal immigrants already in the United States. Holley said he will oppose measures that call for illegal immigrants already here to be deported, saying it would be too costly and impractical. "That horse has run down the second country road," he said. "It's way out of sight." www.terryholley.us

Thurbert Baker was appointed Georgia's fifty-second Attorney General in 1997. Formerly a five-term Dekalb County Representative, where he helped lead the efforts to enact the HOPE scholarship and Georgia's "Two Strikes and You're Out" law, he was elected to serve a four year term as Attorney General in 1998 and re-elected for a second term in 2002. As Attorney General, Mr. Baker has focused on fighting crime, corruption and consumer fraud. He proposed Georgia's groundbreaking financial identity fraud statute and created the Open Government Mediation Program. Mr. Baker pushed through the General Assembly a bill that toughened penalties for domestic abusers, and has fought to protect Georgia's children by proposing and successfully passing legislation that increased penalties for child pornographers. Mr. Baker's tough anti-crime record has earned him endorsements from law enforcement officials across Georgia as well as the active support of the National Rifle Association. Attorney General Baker has taken a leadership role in the National Association of Attorneys General (NAAG), and in 2006 will assume the position of national president. He is also the Vice Chair of the NAAG Homeland Security Committee, and he serves as the association's official representative to the American Bar Association's House of Delegates. Reflecting his special concern for victims of domestic violence, Mr. Baker has previously served as Chair of NAAG's Violence Against Women Committee and as an advisor to the Harrell Center for the study of domestic violence at the University of South Florida. Mr. Baker also serves as a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, a highly respected think tank on foreign affairs. www.thurbertbaker.com

Tommy Irvin, a native of Georgia, was elected to his first public office as a member of the Habersham County Board of Education in 1956. Later he served as Chairman of his school board and President of the Georgia School Boards Association. Elected to four terms in the Georgia General Assembly as a Representative from Habersham County, he served on the House Agriculture, Education, and Appropriations Committees and chaired the House Industrial Relations Committee and the Governor's Conference on Education. Mr. Irvin has served as Georgia Commissioner of Agriculture since 1969, and is the Dean of Georgia's Constitutional officers where he is recognized as one of the state's most able leaders. He is Chair of the Georgia Development Authority and the Georgia Seed Development Commission, a member of the Georgia State Financing and Investment Commission, the Georgia Water Council, the Georgia Rural Development Council, vice-chair of the Georgia State Employee Benefits Plan Council, and an ex-officio member of eleven Georgia Agricultural Commodity Commissions. Among his many awards are the Progressive Farmer magazine Man of the Year in Service to Agriculture; the National Award for Agricultural Excellence given by the National Agri-Marketing Association; the National Future Farmers of America Honorary American Farmer Degree and the Southeastern Poultry and Egg Association’s “Workhorse of the Year” award presented at the International Poultry Exposition and considered to be the most prestigious all-industry recognition for an individual. He was inducted into the Georgia Agrirama Hall of Fame, the Vidalia Onion Hall of Fame, the Georgia Seed Association Hall of Fame, the Habersham County Hall of Fame, the University of Georgia College of Agriculture Hall of Fame and received the University of Georgia College of Veterinary Medicine’s Distinguished Service Award. For his many years of public service as a Democrat, he was named “Democrat of the Year” and received the Richard B. Russell Public Service Award and the 2005 Jefferson Jackson Day HOPE Award. http://agr.georgia.gov/

Michael Thurmond has been Labor Commissioner since 1998, where his department offers a wide range of services including finding jobs for people, job training, vocational rehabilitation and job search for people with disabilities, administration of the state's unemployment insurance trust fund, workplace safety inspections, and public awareness programs. Having served as a Representative in the Georgia General Assembly since 1986, Mr. Thurmond also helped create Workfirst!, Georgia’s Welfare to Work program and was a lecturer at UGA’s Carl Vinson Institute of Government. He graudated from Paine Collge and the University of South Carolina School of Law, and completed the Political Executives Program at the JFK School of Government, Harvard University. He is Chair of the Martin Luther King, Jr. State Holiday Commission, a member of the Georgia Historical Society's Board of Curators and a member of Ebenezer Baptist Church, Athens. www.dol.state.ga.us/welcome.htm

Guy Drexinger graduated from the University of Florida’s College of Business Administration and Mercer University where he received his law degree in 1992. He returned to Marietta where he established his solo law practice, concentrating on small business law and estate planning & administration. He has served as Treasurer for Step-Up, Inc., an organization working with teens through the Cobb County Juvenile Court, and coached 7-8 year old basketball at the Boys and Girls Club in Marietta. Mr. Drexinger now serves as a Board Member of the Boys and Girls Clubs in Cobb County. His other volunteering efforts have included serving on the Wellstar Foundation Board, Chairmanship of the Cobb County Democratic Committee, teaching estate planning & administration at North Metro Technical School in Acworth, and speaking at the Marietta Alternative School. He is concerned that so many Georgians are presently uninsured: "HMOs and insurance companies have given more than one million dollars to my opponent. Since then, over 45,000 Georgia children have lost their health insurance." www.guyforinsurance.com