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March 22, 2012: "Keeping our community safe"

This address held one of four issue posts the 2012 Senate campaign published on March 22, 2012, early in the Republican primary for the redrawn District 6. Its title points to public safety.

Original address
/2012/03/22/keeping-our-community-safe/
Date of the original post
Status
Archive note written by the Public Record editors. The campaign's original text is not reproduced.

What can be verified

The post was filed in the 2012 campaign site's "issues" category on March 22, 2012, alongside posts on taxes and spending, government programs and regulation. We have not been able to check its full text, so we don't summarize it.

What independent sources show

  • When Patch published Hill's candidate essay in October 2011, he listed "a strong legal system" among the principles he wanted to defend, next to limited government, lower and fairer taxes and free-market economics.
  • In 2008, according to OnTheIssues, Hill supported the death penalty alongside alternatives to incarceration.
  • In the Senate he chaired the Veterans, Military and Homeland Security Committee from 2015 and sat on the Public Safety Committee in 2017 (Ballotpedia).
  • Running for governor in 2018, he named public safety as one of his three main themes, with transportation and education (WTVM).

How the 2012 race turned out

Hill won the July 31 primary with 52.6 percent and beat Democratic incumbent Doug Stoner on November 6 with 52.8 percent. Full results are on the elections page.

Sources

  1. Patch (Smyrna-Vinings): Meet state Senate candidate Hunter Hill (Oct. 24, 2011)
  2. Rough Draft Atlanta: Republican hopefuls battle for state Senate seat (Apr. 19, 2012)
  3. Ballotpedia: Hunter Hill (2012 results, committee assignments)
  4. OnTheIssues: Hunter Hill on crime (Nov. 2008)
  5. WTVM: GA gubernatorial candidate Hunter Hill stops by Columbus (May 4, 2018)

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