AJC: Perdue picks Jim Cole as next secretary of state
Boyishly handsome lawmaker to serve remainder of Karen Handel’s term
Gov. Sonny Perdue has picked state Rep. Jim Cole, R-Forsyth, to replace Georgia Secretary of State Karen Handel, the AJC’s James Salzer reports.
Handel announced last week that she’d resign to focus on her gubernatorial campaign.
Republican Rep. Jim Cole, a three-term lawmaker from Forsyth in Middle Georgia, has been picked by Gov. Sonny Perdue to be the next Secretary of State. ...
Cole, 38, will serve out of the final year of Handel’s term. He will also run in 2010 for a full, four-year term.
Cole has been on Perdue’s House team for three years, carrying and pushing the governor’s legislation.
UPDATE: Says here that, sorry, ladies, Cole’s taken. He’s a former businessman who now serves as the assistant athletic director at Mercer University.
(Courtesy House Communications)