1st District candidates find fund-raising difficult around holidays
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Posted 7:16AM on Saturday, December 28, 2002
LAFAYETTE - The only candidates left for Georgia's state Legislature who haven't been elected yet are having a hard time raising more money. <br>
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Incumbent state Representative Mike Snow meets Republican Jay Neal January Seventh in a runoff race after hundreds of voters cast ballots in the wrong district in November. <br>
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Neal narrowly won that election by 195 votes. The First District includes most of Walker County in northwest Georgia. <br>
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Snow says he does not have any money left over from the November election. He says Christmas is not a good time to be trying to raise money. <br>
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Neal says he's running with whatever money he can get. <br>
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Both candidates are getting help from their state parties. <br>
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Redrawn district lines led to hundreds of people voting in the wrong district in November. <br>
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Walker County officials have promised the problem will not happen again.