Brookhaven’s Taylor Bennett in for a fight in swing district
Brookhaven’s race for state representative is heating up. Democratic incumbent Taylor Bennett had three GOP challengers, with Alan Cole and Meagan Hanson headed to a run-off to determine the final Republican candidate. Elected in a special election last year to replace Republican Mike Jacobs — who left the legislature to become a judge for the DeKalb County State Court — Bennett beat former Brookhaven Mayor J. Max Davis by a wide margin, garnering 55 percent