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Perdue campaigns against two new candidates

The statewide Young Democrats convention at the University Friday and Saturday marked the kickoff to the campaign season for two gubernatorial candidates. Secretary of State Cathy Cox and Lt. Gov. Mark Taylor are competing in the Democratic primary to run for governor against Republican incumbent Gov. Sonny Perdue. Both laid out markedly different campaign platforms. Taylor - criticism of Perdue’s HOPE Chest Amendment and rising tuition rates. Cox - children birth to 3 and criticism of Perdue’s HOPE Chest Amendment

Senator questions rights act

State Sen. Bill Stephens, R-Canton, said he believed it was unfair to "have Georgia be treated so differently" from many other states when it has come so far to correct racial voting disparities of the past. But he said he had reached no final position on the law, which must be approved by Congress.

House to lose a Democrat of rare stature

After 26 years in the Georgia House of Representatives, Bill Cummings is going home to Rockmart. Terrell Starr of Jonesboro, the longest-serving member of the state Senate, is calling it quits, too, after 38 years. The longest-serving member of the House, former Speaker Terry Coleman of Eastman, is leaving after 34 years.

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