News You Can Use: Wow! Thank you! We won 58% of the vote and had a 7,000 vote victory margin. From north to south, east to west, we had a fantastic turnout and vote total throughout Houston County. I can’t say or do enough to show my appreciation to my great supporters. You are the best!

During the next four years, I believe that methamphetamine will be the biggest challenge facing Houston County. We will continue to aggressively prosecute the dealers and makers, while working with the community to offer treatment and hope to the addicts.

Thank you for the opportunity to serve you for another four years.

Kelly Burke

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"It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, and comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat."

-Theodore Roosevelt, Citizenship in a Republic; Speech Delivered at Sorbonne, Paris, April 23, 1910