'“This is beyond party politics': Michael Thurmond wants to be Georgia’s Next Governor

'“This is beyond party politics': Michael Thurmond wants to be Georgia’s Next Governor

A former employee at The Athens Voice, a long-since closed newspaper within The Voice Network, Thurmond (above, inside the conference room at The Atlanta Voice) was hired right out of Paine College to work for The Atlanta Voice’s founder, J. Lowell Ware, the father of the paper’s current publisher, Janis Ware. Photo by Donnell Suggs/The Atlanta Voice Former DeKalb County CEO and 2026 Georgia gubernatorial candidate Michael Thurmond stopped by Th…