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Mitch Skandalakis
Demetrios John "Mitch" Skandalakis is a former American Republican politician from Georgia who rose quickly to national prominence in the early 1990s. He upset an established candidate to become chairman of a county board of commissioners, and in 1998 ran for lieutenant-governor, an election he lost in a landslide. Afterward, he became subjected to a federal corruption investigation, spent six months in jail for allegedly lying to an FBI agent, and was disbarred, but was later reinstated, as an attorney.
==Early career==
Skandalakis is the son of a Greek immigrant. His father became a surgeon who taught at Emory University, and his two siblings followed in their father's footsteps. Mitch Skandalakis graduated from Emory University, where he founded a chapter of Young Americans for Freedom. He graduated from the University of Georgia School of Law in 1982 and joined the law firm of conservative Georgia congressman Pat Swindall.
He ran for a state Senate seat in 1988 but lost, and in 1991 began to be active in Fulton County, Georgia's most populous county, as an anti-tax activist, complaining about property taxes; in 1992 he was elected to the Georgia House of Representatives.〔 He attracted national attention when he upset Martin Luther King III in a 1993 special election for Chairman of the Fulton County Board of Commissioners.
Skandalakis was re-elected to a full term in 1994, running as a moderate Republican and openly courting gay voters. He made headlines again in 1995, when he proposed that all amateur athletes be required to disclose whether they had AIDS. As a commissioner, he was most notable for cutting property taxes, even while Atlanta was expanding its budget for the 1996 Summer Olympics.
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