Macon businesswoman Angela Hicks says she has decided to run for Congress not because she loves politics but because she couldn’t stand the thought of not trying to change America.
“People ask how I can afford to take all this time away from my small business and from my two high schoolaged children to try this, and my answer is I can’t afford not to. I’m afraid there will be no American opportunity left for them and their children if we don’t stand up now and turn this country back from the path of ruin. I don’t want them to come to me 10 or 20 years from now and ask, ‘Why didn’t you do something when you had the chance?’”
Hicks, 51, is one of several Republicans challenging Democratic incumbent Jim Marshall for the Eighth Congressional District seat.
She grew up in Twiggs County, received a degree in risk management from the University of Georgia and a MBA from Georgia College & State University. She worked in medical business planning for more than 20 years before beginning her own business, STUFF IT Mobile Storage. She even drives the truck that delivers the storage containers to customers.
She was in Gray earlier this month to speak to a small group of supporters at Hamrick Building & Supply Company.
