Elizabeth “Liz” Johnson, a Bulloch County resident who once represented Georgia on the Democratic National Committee but ran unsuccessfully for local offices such as clerk of court, is now her party’s nominee in the statewide race for insurance commissioner.In fact, Johnson received 203,318 votes, or 69.9 percent of the total in the May 20 primary, while the other Democratic candidate, former state Rep. Keith G. Heard of Athens, captured only 87,437 votes.Now Johnson, 60, who has worked in various aspects of the insurance business, faces the opponent she has been talking about all along, Insurance Commissioner Ralph Hudgens, the Republican incumbent.How does it feel to get more than 200,000 votes?“It tells me that many Georgians are ready for something other than politics as usual,” Johnson said. “It tells me that my message of putting Georgians first is resonating with voters, and we’re just going to continue that message because the incumbent, Ralph Hudgens, is wrong for Georgia.”Of course those primary votes didn’t really count against Hudgens, but for Johnson against Heard. The two of them divided the votes of the 290,755 Georgians who chose the Democratic ballot and then selected an insurance commissioner candidate.Meanwhile, Hudgens received 451,599 votes as the unopposed candidate on the Republican ballot.