Lisa Rayam

David Scott, a longtime Georgia politician and businessman, has died. He was 80 years old. Known for his over 23-year tenure in the United States Congress, Scott garnered a respectable reputation among peers for his staunch advocacy for farmers, healthcare, education and veterans. The son of Mamie Polite Scott and Albert James Scott, the politician was born on June 27, 1945, in the small South Carolina town of Aynor.

Georgia’s former Republican Lt. Gov. Geoff Duncan grew up in a Republican household, in the deep South, heavily red Forsyth County. “That was the lens I looked through,” Duncan tells WABE’s “Morning Edition,” just hours after announcing that it’s official: he is now a Democrat.

Bill Edwards was elected the city of South Fulton’s first mayor in 2017, after a referendum where 59% of residents voted in favor of incorporation. He served until 2021. Now the former Fulton County Commissioner is running again. That’s as current Mayor Khalid Kamau is embroiled in a controversy where he is accused of mishandling city funds, and allegedly spending taxpayer funds on luxury travel and other expenses.