Cynthia Starke-Jones

Democrat

State House of Representatives - District 19 · Cobb County, Georgia · November 3, 2026

Also on the ballot: Joseph Gullett (Republican)

Cynthia Starke-Jones is a Democratic educator from Dallas, Georgia challenging incumbent Joseph Gullett for Georgia House District 19, having never held elected office after unsuccessful 2022 and 2024 local campaigns. She is campaigning on affordable health care and increased public-school funding, and has drawn endorsements from reproductive-rights, LGBTQ-rights, and gun-safety advocacy groups. Confirmed as the same person across all sources by matching biography (Dallas, GA educator with degrees from Georgia State University, University of Phoenix, and Piedmont University).

What this office decides

A Georgia state representative votes on the state budget, income and sales tax rates, and the laws governing schools, health care, criminal penalties, guns, abortion, and elections. The seat also shapes how state money flows to local districts and whether the state expands or limits programs like Medicaid. One of 180 House members, the winner casts votes that apply statewide.

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Dossier

Researched 2026-09-22 · Claude Code research agent with web search

Donald Trump: nothing found. No endorsement or criticism of Starke-Jones by Donald Trump was found in this research.

Georgia WIN List (for) source
EMILYs List (for) source
Reproductive Freedom for All (for) source
Georgia Equality (for) source
Moms Demand Action (for) source
Working Families Party (for) source
United for Georgia Women (for) source
National Democratic Redistricting Committee (for) source
State Rep. David Wilkerson (for) source
R.J. Coyle (2024 Democratic nominee for District 19) (for) source

Who they are

Democratic educator from Dallas, Georgia (Paulding County) running for House District 19 (Cobb/Paulding counties); has never held elected office, having run unsuccessfully for Paulding County Commission (2022) and Paulding County school board (2024) (Ballotpedia).

Positions

Taxes & spending: In her 2022 county-commission campaign she prioritized cutting property taxes via business growth; no 2026 House-race tax statement was found (Patch, 2022-05-19).
Schools: Platform calls for higher teacher pay, "modernizing" the QBE school-funding formula, and smaller class sizes; says students "deserve access to safe public education" (Campaign site; Ballotpedia survey).
Personal freedom: No direct statement found; endorsed by Reproductive Freedom for All and by Georgia Equality, an LGBTQ-rights group (Reproductive Freedom for All; Campaign site).
Health care: Says residents "deserve...affordable & accessible healthcare"; platform seeks lower out-of-pocket costs and more rural/mobile health funding (Ballotpedia survey; Campaign site).
Gun policy: No direct statement found; endorsed by Moms Demand Action (Campaign site).
Crime & policing: No public position found.

Record

Never elected to office. Career educator and, per her own account, a small-business owner; District Director for the 9th District Georgia PTA; degrees from Georgia State University, University of Phoenix, and Piedmont University (Ballotpedia). Ran for Paulding County Commission District 3 in 2022 and Paulding County school board (at-large) in 2024 (Patch; Branch.vote). Advanced unopposed from the 2026 Democratic primary with 6,021 votes (Ballotpedia).

Money

Ballotpedia states "campaign finance information for this candidate is not yet available from OpenSecrets" (Ballotpedia); no fundraising totals were located elsewhere, and her site directs donors to ActBlue.

What we couldn't find

No stated position on guns, crime/policing, or abortion in her own words (only inferred from advocacy-group endorsements).
No fundraising totals or donor list.
No Trump endorsement/criticism found.

Sources (8)