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Jewel Johnson
Jewel Johnson is running for South Fulton Mayor.
Political background
Jewel Johnson's campaign for mayor is her first entry into politics.
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Candidate website
Professional background
Jewel is a retired nurse of 44 years.
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Candidate website
Personal background
Jewel and her husband raised their three children in Atlanta, where they have lived since the 1980's. She was president of the Association of West Cascade Communities, and Ethics Board member for the City of South Fulton and president of Women of Change.
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Candidate website
Public Services
- Plans to start a quarterly newsletter that will be mailed out to every homeowner and business owner in the city.
- Wants to make sure that citizens and business owners are a part of the planning process for the city.
- Plans to create new studies to look into how to improve citizen quality of life.
- As a citizen, she worked to overturn Atlanta's annexation of her neighborhood and supported the South Fulton campaign to become a city.
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Candidate website
COVID
- Said, "South Fulton received CARES Act monies, and the question is, did you or anyone you know who qualified benefit from such funds? It is becoming evident that so much of these relief funds ended up in the wrong hands."
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Candidate website
City Budget
As of August 20, 2021, Jewel Johnson’s website did not contain information on this issue.
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Candidate website
Housing & Urban Development
- Wants to "diversify[] the housing stock to accommodate millennials to the baby boomers."
- Said, "[w]e should not have to watch our property values plummet due to the trucks, noise, and pollution."
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Candidate website
Public Safety
- Wants to revive the citywide neighborhood and business watch programs.
- Plans to create better community-based partnerships between the community and the police.
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Candidate website
Transportation & Infrastructure
- Said Cascade Road is "another sign of failed leadership from the South Fulton Administration. This culvert has been a problem fro years, and the mayor chose to do nothing about fixing our infrastructure for 14 years while he was commissioner."
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Candidate website
Zoning
- Said, "[w]e're not anti-growth but pro-neighborhood."
- Said, "[a] residential community is not a place for industrial-grade development."
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Candidate website