DES MOINES, Iowa - Aides to Michele Bachmann say the Republican congresswoman will formally launch her campaign for president on Monday from her birthplace in Waterloo, Iowa.

Last week, Bachmann filed paperwork with the Federal Election Commission to seek the GOP nomination. She later announced her candidacy during a nationally televised debate.

Bachmann represents a suburban Minneapolis district and has spent the past several months signaling her interest in running for the White House.

She has traveled to Iowa four times this year to meet with Republican leaders and conservative activists who are influential in the state's caucuses, which begin the presidential nominating process.

Bachmann was born in Waterloo and lived in the area until moving to Minnesota at age 12.

Candidate for Macon Mayor Robert Brown revealed his plan to rid the city of crime on Friday.

If elected mayor, his goal is to ban illegal bars and prostitutes within two years.

"Wherever they want to go outside of Macon. I would be the mayor of Macon, I would not be the mayor of Warner Robins or the mayor of Atlanta...wherever they want to go, but they couldn't do the business here."

After four arrests were made on Brentwood Avenue, neighbors say there is still more work that needs to be done. They want to see the prostitutes off their neighborhood streets for good.

"I want them to go to jail. If they're going to keep selling their bodies and putting themselves out like that they can get diseases...they need to get help," said April Powell.

Powell says she's seen streetwalkers go in and out of the shed in her backyard.

Drug paraphernalia, used condoms and human feces ruined some of the neglected buildings and made them homes for criminal activity.

Rufus Burnes wishes the area would clean up.

"I think the police need to ride the neighborhood more."

Community members aren't blind to what's happening. They say it's an age-old problem they've seen for years.

Burnes says, "I'm tired of the streetwalkers, I'm tired of them disrespecting us."

If Robert Brown is elected mayor, he says "I will focus like a laser beam on making sure that the crime problem in Macon, Georgia is adequately addressed."

The Special Election for State Senate District 26 and House District 139 is starting to take shape.

Two Democrats will campaign for the open House seat, Dr. James Beverly and Dr. Anissa Jones. Both say·creating industry in Middle Georgia·is a top priority in this job.

"We're going to strengthen our education system so that they can know that they have qualified employees that they can hire for their business in that district," says Jones.

"Jobs is number one. In this economy we have to create the incentives and the structure to get jobs in this area."

Fixing the economy is also a hot topic in the three-way race for the open senate seat. The candidates, Bobby Gale (R), David Lucas (D), and Miriam Paris (D)·say this is number one on their list.

"I plan to fight hard for the citizens of this area to bring good jobs with good benefits," says Paris.

"Number one, you've got to talk about industries as far as Twiggs and Wilkinson," says Lucas.

"We have the capability of becoming a great city for commercialists," says Gale.

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