DALTON — Republican Nicky Lama of Dalton is betting on himself in Northwest Georgia’s congressional special election. The former City Council member is staying in the race despite President Donald Trump’s endorsement of former Lookout Mountain Judicial Circuit District Attorney Clay Fuller.
“I definitely am going to stay in because I am in this for the same reasons I started,” Lama said in an interview.
At noon on a recent Thursday, Lama, the son and grandson of immigrants, was working the fryers of Juan’s Weiner’s on Dalton’s main street while wearing his elaborately detailed cowboy boots.
The young entrepreneur, who recently turned 25, dedicates a lot of his working hours to the restaurant, which is the most labor-intensive of his business ventures, especially when the place is short-staffed.