Clay KissnerVote results
Kissner 403 to Burkhart’s 152Summerville liquor by drink: passed with 52 votes in favor and six opposed.Pickens County Sunday package sales: 692 in favor and 328 opposed.
Voters had mixed reactions Tuesday to Sunday alcohol sales in a smattering of Northwest Georgia special elections.
That is, if you count the result in Fort Oglethorpe.
In a race to fill the seat of deceased Councilman Eddie Stinnett, voters there overwhelmingly chose political newcomer Clay Kissner, who’s been lukewarm about putting Sunday sales on the November ballot, over political veteran Judd Burkhart, who vowed to give the city’s voters the option to weigh in on the controversial measure.
Kissner, who knocked on 350 residents’ doors during the campaign, thinks pounding the pavement had more impact than his Sunday sales stance.