In an uphill fight against a 30-year incumbent, Republican congressional candidate Chris West was scratching for votes in Georgia’s second-smallest county on a recent October evening.
West was telling voters in Georgetown, just across the Chattahoochee River from Alabama, that they should dump longtime Democrat Sanford Bishop if they’re unhappy with inflation and gas prices. West said his own experience as a commercial developer would help improve the fortunes of Georgia’s 2nd Congressional District, long one of the nation’s poorest.
“Sanford has represented this district for 30 years now. And we have been in the top 10 poorest congressional districts for the last 30 years,” West told supporters. “And out of 435 districts around the country, why should Georgia 2 have to be in the top 10? It shouldn’t be.”
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