Sen. Beach To Run For 6th Congressional District Seat

ALPHARETTA, GA — State Senator Brandon Beach has announced plans to seek higher office. Beach has filed a formal statement of candidacy with the Federal Elections Commission to run for Georgia's 6th Congressional District seat held by Democrat Lucy McBath.

Beach will run in the 2020 election to unseat the newly elected McBath, the Cobb County resident who edged out Karen Handel to place the seat in the Democratic column in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Handel was ousted from the seat a little more than a year after she defeated Democrat Jon Ossoff in a special election for the seat, which represents North Fulton County and parts of DeKalb and Cobb counties.

"I’ve made the decision," he said on his Facebook page. "We are in, and we are going to win!"

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Beach, of Alpharetta, has served in the Georgia State Senate since 2013. He represents District 21, which includes Alpharetta, Milton and the eastern half of Cherokee County. Beach chairs the Transportation Committee in the Senate, and is a member of the Rules, Higher Education and Economic Development and Tourism committees.

Beach is employed as the executive director of the North Fulton Community Improvement District. In November, he received the Atlanta Regional Commission's Unsung Hero Award for his work in passing House Bill 930, which created The ATL, metro Atlanta's new transit authority.

Patch has reached out to Beach to get more details. However, he told The Atlanta Journal-Constitution that he would support allowing states to retain a portion of the gas tax to be used for capital projects. He also said he'd advocate for transportation improvements, public education and creating jobs.

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