District Attorney Candidate Patsy Austin-Gatson Says That Sitting DA Danny Porter Is Desparate

Published: Sept. 14, 2020, 2 p.m.

b'www.GoodMorningGwinnett.com sitting DA, Danny Porter. Porter, a Republican, is running for reelection.

Porter said he had heard rumors for months that Austin-Gatson and Curtis Clemons, who was running for sheriff, were using county resources to create, edit, print and deliver campaign materials. Both Austin-Gatson and Clemons work in the county solicitor\\u2019s office. So does Austin-Gatson\\u2019s husband, Travis Gatson, who was also accused of impropriety.

But Porter didn\\u2019t file a complaint until this week, when he learned of an incident in Hall County that was documented by an investigator in the solicitor\\u2019s office there. The investigator, Andrew Ledbetter, wrote in an incident report that Gatson was in Hall County to obtain a search warrant when he handed everyone in the room a business card with his wife\\u2019s picture on it and said the campaign \\u201ccould use all of the support they could get.\\u201d

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