A little cemetery humor for you, courtesy of the apocryphal funeral home advertisement: "I'll be the last one to let you down."

That might as well be the slogan for both rivals competing for the seat of state Rep. Rusty Kidd, the Legislature's lone independent. The Milledgeville lawmaker's decision to drop out of the race leaves two candidates undertaking a race for the seat.

Both Democrat Floyd Griffin Jr., a former state senator and ex-mayor of Milledgeville, and Republican Rick Williams, an ex-Baldwin County commissioner, are funeral home directors. Their Milledgeville businesses are less than two miles from each other.

Who will bury whom? It’s been a Republican-leaning district in off years, and Democratic in presidential ones. Our gut says the contest is a dead heat.

Insider's note: This item was ripped from the Morning Jolt, which you can find here.

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Austin Walters died from an overdose in 2021 after taking a Xanax pill laced with fentanyl, his father said. A new law named after Austin and aimed at preventing deaths from fentanyl has resulted in its first convictions in Georgia, prosecutors said. (Family photo)

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