Georgia’s 3rd Congressional District – Andrew Pacetti
About Andrew:
Born in Florida, Andrew moved with his family throughout the South, before finally settling in Sandy Springs, a northern suburb of Atlanta, Georgia in 1984. Andrew attended The University of Texas at Austin, where he majored in Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, and English before ultimately graduating with a degree in History. Immediately after graduating, Andrew became involved in Republican politics in Austin and ran, unsuccessfully, as the 2002 Republican nominee for the Texas State House of Representatives from one of the most liberal districts in Texas (central Austin’s 49th). While running for the Texas State House, Andrew worked during the day as an assistant to the Director of the Center for Subsurface Modeling, a research group for computational mathematics as applied primarily to the petroleum industry at the University of Texas. At night, he managed accounts and kept UT Law students fed and caffeinated at an independent sandwich/coffee shop, where he met his future wife. In 2006, he joined SolarWinds as a Technical Writer and was married in 2007. Four kids followed: in 2008, 2011, 2013, and 2015. In late 2015, Andrew accepted a technical writing position at Panasonic Automotive in Peachtree City, GA, in order to bring his kids closer to their grandparents in Atlanta. After a divorce, during the resolution of which he lived in Sandy Springs, that was then finalized in 2017, Andrew and his 4 kids moved to Peachtree City, where they presently, very happily, reside. Andrew continues to work as a technical writer for Panasonic Automotive while serving as an Elder and occasional youth Sunday School teacher at Evergreen Church (ECO). His kids enjoy attending Rising Starr Middle School and Oak Grove Elementary School, where, pre-COVID-19, Andrew volunteered as a Science Olympiad coach and reading mentor, respectively. Andrew enjoys hanging out with his kids while they still enjoy his company, shuttling them back-and-forth to soccer practice during the week and games on the weekends, reading, riding his bike, and training for obstacle course races and ultramarathons he hopes someday to complete.
“I joined the ASP in the Summer of 2020, after seeking an alternative to the 2020 Presidential candidates on offer from the Republicans, Democrats, Libertarians, and Greens. Having been consistently #WholeLife for as long as I can remember considering such issues—as the 2002 GOP nominee for the Texas House of Representatives from the 49th district I advocated, unsuccessfully, both for a moratorium on the death penalty and for acceptance of Federal matching funds for Medicaid and Medicare—the ASP offered the first Presidential candidate I could fully support in good conscience. Because I believe that political and civic convictions flow inevitably from personal theological or philosophical convictions—whether those convictions are realized and acknowledged or not—the focus that the ASP is committed to maintaining, policy-wise, on the God-given dignity of each and every human being by virtue of their creation in the imago Dei is how and why I have found a political home in the ASP.” -Andrew Pacetti