Nickie Leighly, mother of 7 and firefighters wife, is announcing her intent to run for Georgia House District 14. She is an active member in the community, a former foster mom, former youth leader, former MOPS (mothers of Preschoolers) coordinator, currently is a long-term active member in the local Republican Party, member of the Presidents team, active in her church, and active in her children’s schools. She helps raise money for various charities in the area. She is also a small business owner. Nickie is running to improve the lives of families and children in her district. She has three main goals that she wants to focus on; foster care, children’s education and health care, and first responder issues.
Nickie Leighly is running to improve foster care. As a former foster mom and an adoptive mom, She knows from experience some issues that would be beneficial to help these children have permanency and to help the family unit.
Nickie Leighly is running to improve education and healthcare for children. She believes that “parents know their children better than the government and that they should have more of a say in services and treatments their children receive.” She also doesn’t believe in a one size fits all approach in healthcare or education system and wants to open communication between parents and professionals to find ways to improve both systems to make them the best in the country. In healthcare, she wants to battle the opiate epidemic that our state is facing that would also be beneficial in not only healthcare but being able to keep families together in the foster system. She also plans to help create education for our health care workers and education providers to recognize victims of sex trafficking, which is a big problem for Atlanta and the surrounding counties.
Nickie Leighly is also running on issues that affect our first responders, 911 operators, EMS worker, firefighters and police officers. “Our first responders are there for us in some of our lowest times and we need to make sure that they have what they need.” As the wife of a firefighter, she sees the help that could be needed for the first responders.
Nickie feels that because she is currently in the middle of all these issues in her personal life that she can currently use that passion to create change for our community. Nickie wants to “fight for our children of Georgia, for Georgia’s future.”