High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Demetrios John "Mitch" Skandalakis is a former American Republican politician from Georgia who rose quickly to national prominence in the early 1990s. He upset an established candidate to become chairman of a county board of commissioners, and in 1998 ran for lieutenant-governor, an election he lost in a landslide. Afterward, he became subjected to a federal corruption investigation and spent time in jail, and was disbarred as an attorney.