Georgia House Dist. 168: Al Williams, Kevin Remillard

Williams

My priority is to deal with the affordability question as it relates to state government in Georgia. We have some serious problems to address, not just for hardworking Georgians but for all Georgians. It isn’t just workers who need help. Everybody needs help, and the state has to get involved.

We have to deal with childcare costs at some point. We have to help people seeking to get into the housing market for the first time. My other priority is literacy. We have to follow through and make sure this our efforts to improve it are working throughout this state, particularly in my home county of Liberty. Nobody can be against literacy for children.

Remillard

The top issue I will tackle in the 2027 legislative session is economic survival for families and seniors through aggressive tax relief. Liberty County residents currently face some of the highest effective property tax burdens relative to home values in the entire state. At the same time, inflation has made it increasingly difficult for hardworking citizens and retirees on fixed incomes to keep up with the basic cost of living.

To combat these economic headwinds, I will immediately champion legislation to expand senior homestead exemptions and permanently eliminate local school property taxes for residents ages 65 and older. No senior should be taxed out of the home they spent a lifetime paying for.

Furthermore, I will fight to accelerate broad state personal income tax cuts to leave more money in the pockets of working families rather than growing government coffers. By lowering the tax footprint, we will stimulate local commercial growth, foster small business investment, and protect the financial independence of our citizens.

True economic stability doesn’t come from government spending programs; it comes from allowing individuals to keep 100 percent of the products of their hard-earned labor.

Williams

Many years ago, I was inspired when I found out that it’s limited what you can do being outside. If I was going to help people, then I needed to be in position to help them. I had to get to the table because as I discovered, you’re either at the table or you’re on the menu. I eventually ran for public office and got elected. Since then, I’ve tried to do what I felt was best for the people of Liberty County.

Remillard

For over two decades, our current representation has consistently voted to expand the state footprint, increase spending budgets, and uphold structural monopolies that restrict healthcare and economic growth. I am running to offer a direct alternative to the top-down establishment status quo.

I see everyday citizens, small business owners, and military families at Fort Stewart struggling against red tape and high taxes. I am motivated by the desire to give a voice to the thousands of residents who feel completely left behind by career politicians in Atlanta.

When local development authorities push to dump millions of gallons of wastewater into our delicate coastal waterways near Sunbury without independent ecological testing, it proves our community needs a watchman.

I am running to restore true accountability, defend constitutional rights like the Second Amendment without compromise, and empower parents to make their own choices in education. Public service should never be about maintaining political power; it should be about shifting power away from government systems and back to the individual.

Williams

No doubt about it, there was to start with Jimmy Carter. He was the moral conscience of this country, and certainly here in Georgia, until his death. There was also Ralph Quarterman, the charter president of the Liberty County branch of the NAACP and the first Black man in the state of Georgia to own and operate a sawmill. He was a mentor of mine and a very solid man morally. I wanted to emulate him. I also wanted to be like W.W. Law, who always fought for the rights of his people.

Finally, there was my grandfather, who died eight months before I was born. He was a Baptist preacher and outspoken activist who, like Law, fought hard for the rights of his people. He also introduced Henry Ford to George Washington Carver.

Remillard

As my moral guides, I look to Lyman Hall and Button Gwinnett, our very own Liberty County founding fathers and signers of the Declaration of Independence.

When the colony of Georgia hesitated to join the American Revolution, the fiercely independent citizens of St. John’s Parish autonomously sent these men to Philadelphia to demand freedom. They risked their lives, fortunes, and sacred honor to build a nation rooted in self-governance, individual liberty, and economic independence.

Standing proud behind their legacy, I’m reminded that true representation means fighting for the freedom of our citizens, even when standing completely alone against the political establishment.