29 Facts About Casey Cagle

Lowell Stacy "Casey" Cagle was born on January 12,1966 and is an American businessman and politician who served as the 11th lieutenant governor of Georgia from 2007 to 2019.

Casey Cagle was previously a Republican Party member of the Georgia General Assembly from 1996 to 2007.

Casey Cagle assumed the position of Lieutenant Governor of Georgia in 2007, becoming the first Republican to hold the office.

Casey Cagle was born Lowell Stacy Casey Cagle in Gainesville, Georgia, and raised by his single mother.

Casey Cagle is a seventh generation resident of Hall County, Georgia.

Casey Cagle expanded the retail business into multiple locations throughout North Georgia.

In 1994, at age 28, Casey Cagle ran for the Georgia Senate in Senate District 49 that included Hall County and parts of Dawson County and Forsyth County.

Casey Cagle was re-elected five times and served from 1995 to 2006.

In early 2005, Casey Cagle declared his candidacy for Lieutenant Governor of Georgia.

Casey Cagle was opposed in the Republican primary by nationally known Christian conservative activist Ralph Reed.

Casey Cagle initially ran for the Governor seat but on April 15,2009, withdrew from the governor's race, citing a degenerative spinal condition and unspecified nerve and bone problems that required surgical treatment.

Casey Cagle ran for and won re-election as lieutenant governor instead.

Georgia's lieutenant governor office does not have the same two-term limit as the governorship, so Casey Cagle ran for and won a third term as lieutenant governor in 2014.

Casey Cagle ran unopposed in the Republican primary and defeated former State Senator and DeKalb County Commissioner Connie Stokes in the general election.

Casey Cagle out-fund-raised his opponents by a large margin, attracting nearly $7 million in campaign contributions.

Casey Cagle was endorsed by the National Rifle Association, Marietta Daily Journal, Cherokee Tribune, Rome News-Tribune, Waycross Journal Herald, Educators First, and he has earned the support of the Georgia Realtors.

Casey Cagle has been endorsed by over 100 police Sheriffs across the state.

Casey Cagle sought to portray his primary opponent Kemp as an incompetent secretary of state, whereas Kemp sought to portray Casey Cagle as scandal-prone and corrupt.

On February 26,2018, while Lieutenant Governor, Casey Cagle threatened to block legislation that benefited Delta Air Lines after the company ended their discount for National Rifle Association members in the wake of the Stoneman Douglas High School shooting, which led to the death of seventeen students in Parkland, Florida.

Furthermore, Casey Cagle's purchase was labeled by the board as "unqualified" for appraisal purposes.

In contrast to the low purchase price, Casey Cagle valued the same property in his 2009 and 2013 disclosures at $175,000, which was significantly higher than the board's appraisal price.

In June 2018, a secret recording of a conversation was released by Clay Tippins, who finished fourth in the 2018 Georgia Republican Gubernatorial Primary, where Casey Cagle described how he supported "bad public policy" in an attempt to undermine Hunter Hill's run for governor.

Casey Cagle explained how he changed his position on Georgia House Bill 217 in order to prevent Hill from receiving financial support from a Super-PAC.

House Bill 217, which was sponsored by school choice activists, increased the cap on tax credits for private school scholarships from $65 million to $100 million, something that Casey Cagle personally considered bad "a thousand different ways".

Casey Cagle later stated that the recording was never meant to be made public.

Tippins claims that Casey Cagle was offering to use his campaign donors to pay Clay Tippins' campaign debt in return for his official endorsement in the gubernatorial runoff.

An investigation by The Atlanta Journal-Constitution found that Casey Cagle had spent approximately $265,000 of taxpayer funds on air travel from January 2010 to June 2018.

The Atlanta Journal-Constitution noted that Casey Cagle had previously sought to portray himself as a fiscal conservative.

Casey Cagle is married to his high school sweetheart Nita, and they are the parents of three sons, Jared, Grant, and Carter, and are now grandparents to three grandchildren: Everett Grace, Levi Mick, and Wimberly Sullivan.