After months on the campaign, Georgia’s Republican gubernatorial candidates have honed their messages, and they stuck to them during the 9th District Republican Party’s debate on Saturday, March 31. Seven candidates took the stage in South Hall and — outside of lesser-known quantities like new candidate Eddie Hayes, a former restaurant owner, and teacher and author Marc Urbach, who strode onto the stage in a large, black cowboy hat toting a Bible and one of his own books — they played to type before an audience of hundreds.