Evans feels chances of staying on DOT board are 50-50

CUMMING - The DOT board member from our area thinks he has about a 50-50 chance of winning re-election when the vote is taken today.

State lawmakers from the 9th Congressional District will meet at 11:00 this morning at the state Capitol to decide between Mike Evans and a candidate backed House Speaker Glenn Richardson.

Evans' seat on the board became an issue when he cast the decided vote in favor of Gena Abraham as the new DOT commissioner.

Richardson had backed another candidate. Evans said yesterday he feels the group is about evenly divided on who to support.

"We now are in the phase of the election where both sides believe they have the votes," Evans wrote in an email to supporters and the media yesterday, "(something that is) not uncommon in DOT Board elections. I think I have at least 13 and the Speaker thinks he has at least 13."

Evans went on to say "(the) only problem is there are only 24 total votes