Atlanta mayoral race: Poll shows Mary Norwood with early lead (Evans: party, culture)

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Originally Posted by jsvh

I am supportive of having the police force well staffed, so her supporting the same goal as Reed of maintaining 2,000 police officers is not an issue.

However, her taking the typical right-wing fear-based approach to getting herself elected are very concerning.

These sort of things from the article give more of an insight on where Norwood comes down on bigger issues going on in our country:

Sounds to me like she properly handled what was tantamount to a loaded question and a cheap shot.

[AnsleyPark]

Originally Posted by jsvh

I am supportive of having the police force well staffed, so her supporting the same goal as Reed of maintaining 2,000 police officers is not an issue.

However, her taking the typical right-wing fear-based approach to getting herself elected are very concerning.

These sort of things from the article give more of an insight on where Norwood comes down on bigger issues going on in our country:

Let's think about it - raising a "yes" sign to whether "police" - not "some police" - target... Well, that, too, could give the wrong impression. I believe the question was overly broad for an intellectual response.

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Originally Posted by AnsleyPark

Let's think about it - raising a "yes" sign to whether "police" - not "some police" - target... Well, that, too, could give the wrong impression. I believe the question was overly broad for an intellectual response.

I'm surprised that the inquiring 'journalist' didn't ask the candidates if they had stopped beating their wives.
It did serve the purpose of giving ill-informed voters ammo against Councilwoman Norwood, however.

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Peter Aman's new ad is Onion worthy. "My husband is not a racist and is willing to work with people who aren't white."

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Originally Posted by Larry X

She's doing the same in sw Atlanta, people have been taking her signs down, lol.

HAHA, I know several people in this part of the city that does not like Norwood at all. This is not a surprise

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Originally Posted by Gulch

10 bucks says the Emory student that wrote this isn't originally from Atlanta.

It says they are from Nashua, NH at the bottom of the article.

[jsvh]

Throwback Thursday to our first mayoral election (from the South Downtown Facebook page):

#tbt On Saturday, January 29, 1848, 215 votes were cast in Atlanta’s first mayoral election. There were just two candidates – Moses Formwalt and Jonathan Norcross – and just one polling place – Thomas Kile’s grocery store (presently the site of the William Oliver Building at Five Points).
28-year-old Formwalt ran a tin and copper business (selling items such as whiskey stills) and had the support of the “Free and Rowdy Party.” 39-year-old Norcross was a sawmill operator (producing cross ties for the railroad) and dry goods merchant with support from the “Moral Party.”
We don’t know the vote count, but Formwalt was declared the winner and became Atlanta’s first mayor. Norcross was eventually elected Atlanta’s fourth mayor in 1851.
The painting shown here, dated 1949, is the work of Atlanta artist and historian Wilbur Kurtz and is in the collection of the Atlanta History Center.

Which candidate would be the "Free and Rowdy" candidate this election? They got my vote!

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Originally Posted by jeoff

Trying to avoid being too snarky—everybody was young once. But, it is sort of funny, this coming from a campus that you can’t even find a panhandler within shouting distance of, as opposed to, say, GSU.

There are occasionally panhandlers in the area (although I've never seen one on campus). Of course, its not anything like GSU.

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Originally Posted by aries4118

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/03/u...il-rights.html

This whole race thing makes me sick. It's clear that quite a few people are supporting Bottoms because they think Atlanta should always have a black mayor, regardless of her merits, history, or clear culture of corruption.