For my neighbors in the 6th who are tired of being lectured
Kevin Martin has spent 30 years as a controller: the person who audits the books and asks why the numbers moved. He's running for Congress in Georgia's 6th. Before he tells you what he thinks, he wants to know what you expect from the people you vote for.
Takes a minute. No spam, and no promises he can't keep.
“I promise you will always be in charge, and your voice will matter most.”
We have elected too many people who sound good and do nothing. They show up with an agenda they never ran on and a goal they never mentioned. Whether any of it actually helps you stopped being the point a long time ago.
You are not supposed to be the audience. You are supposed to be the boss.
Kevin has said the same thing to every employer he has ever worked for, and he means it the same way here:
"You're employing me to help you handle your business. If you don't like what I'm doing, talk to me. I can make the changes." — Kevin Martin
Ask yourself honestly: when was the last time your congressperson made your life better?
"I have blood in the district." — Kevin Martin
Kevin is a fifth-generation native of Cobb County. His mother grew up off Bolton Road, his father in Center Hill, out along Bankhead Highway. His family has been in this stretch of Georgia for generations, and he has lived here his whole life.
His grandfather had a third-grade education and came to Atlanta on the WPA in the 1930s, the son of a sharecropper with nothing behind him. He built his own business anyway, hired people out of his own community, and kept a garden that neighbors could work when they needed to eat.
Kevin's father spent 42 years at Atlanta Gaslight as a crew foreman. His mother spent 35 years at BellSouth and worked her way up to first-level supervisor. The four of them lived in a two-bedroom, one-bath house under 1,500 square feet. His parents gave him and his brother what they needed rather than what they wanted, and told them the way out was a better education than they had gotten. Kevin started cutting grass at nine years old, because if he wanted a bicycle he was going to buy the bicycle.
That is the whole reason he takes the question of who gets a fair shot here personally. He has watched this district from the inside for his entire life, and he is not asking anyone to take his word for where he comes from.
At one company, payroll kept climbing. So did the number of people getting checks. Nobody could say why.
Kevin went through it department by department, headcount by headcount. The payroll officer was adding their own family members to the payroll. The fraud stopped, and the person responsible was gone, because somebody finally asked a question nobody else was asking.
"Constantly asking the question of why our constituents are suffering is how we get to better solutions." — Kevin Martin
That's the whole discipline. Checks and balances. Audit every aspect. Catch the fraud before it compounds, and find the waste sitting in between. He thinks Washington could use somebody who does that for a living.
…and you are not the one that benefits.
Ask Kevin what is actually wrong here and he doesn't reach for a culture-war answer. He walks you through the math, one step at a time.
Congress is doing nothing but bickering over what headlines and what sound bites will make it easiest for them to win re-election. The right and the left agree on one thing: the system is not built for you to win.
Kevin is a controller, so he starts every one of these the same way: what is actually going wrong, what Congress can actually do about it, and what he would change. Pick the one that matters to your household.
Send education money back to Georgia without the federal strings, and let this district raise up its lowest-performing schools rather than pulling down its best.
Where he standsFederal student aid was built around the four-year degree. Make it work for shorter technical programs, and fund career and technical education like it matters.
Where he standsPass an actual budget through regular order, fund the core obligations first, and make every other program justify itself before it gets another appropriation.
Where he standsOpen unused federal land for people to build on, give mortgage terms a real hearing, and keep lending standards honest so we do not repeat the 2000s.
Where he standsA full-time wage should clear the cost of living and keep pace with inflation, without compressing the ladder that makes taking on more responsibility worth it.
Where he standsStop paying more than every other developed country for the same medication, bring critical drug manufacturing home, and break up the insurer-doctor-pharmacy arrangement.
Where he standsMake federal payment reflect what low-volume community care actually costs, and enforce antitrust against the regional medical monopolies closing these hospitals.
Where he standsFund law enforcement properly, fix the federal side of the pretrial release problem, and appoint judges who read the law as written rather than legislate from the bench.
Where he standsKeep federal law focused on people who have actually done something, no national gun registry, and apply the Constitution consistently across every right it protects.
Where he standsStart with the inventory, not the check. Set a real readiness benchmark, require replenishment when we fall below it, and audit defense like every other line.
Where he standsKevin's first instinct is to ask what you expect, not to tell you what to think. That is the entire reason this page exists.
Nothing constructive has ever come from calling somebody a name. Disagreement is healthy; the shouting is what's useless.
It keeps getting harder to put food on the table and harder to believe a better life is still ahead. That is not a personal failing, it is a system that quit working for you.
Kevin will not promise you something he cannot deliver. He would rather tell you the truth about what he finds.
Prices climb, valuations climb, and the bill lands hardest on the people with the least room to absorb it. Somebody ought to be asking why.
You are supposed to be the boss, not the audience. Kevin's one promise is that your voice stays in charge.
It only takes a minute to tell Kevin what you need him to focus on.
No spam, ever.
