Poll: Bottoms or Norwood? (Atlanta, Franklin: eviction, new construction, income)

[cqholt]

Originally Posted by jsvh

What exactly do you think "new intown highway connections" will be if not something like that?

Have you contacted her campaign to ask? Emails, tweets, etc.

[Forhall]

Originally Posted by jsvh

Sure. Just as my fear or Trump's policies was my rationale to vote for Hillary's "known corruption".

Well, if you fell into the "Hillary is corrupt" camp then I can discount your political judgement. She was the most investigated candidate in history, republicans spent millions combing over her life and found nothing. They invented fake scandal after fake scandal and still she was often rated one of the most honest of politicians.

If this race is similar to 2016, it's Norwood who is Hillary - the unfairly attacked older white female maligned as out of touch and not progressive enough despite a very progressive platform, while her opponent has blatant conflicts of interest and corruption, has a blowhard top surrogate who calls people "losers" and lashes out at the press, and yet gets a free pass.

[fieldm]

Mary the Republican

https://m.facebook.com/story.php?sto...910084929&_rdr

[ronricks]

Originally Posted by fieldm

Mary the Republican

https://m.facebook.com/story.php?sto...910084929&_rdr

Shaun King? A guy who lies about who he is and has no connection or clue about Atlanta telling us who we should vote for? Makes total sense.

[fieldm]

Originally Posted by ronricks

Shaun King? A guy who lies about who he is and has no connection or clue about Atlanta telling us who we should vote for? Makes total sense.

Not about him but about the link. Great job skipping over the link

[Iconographer]

Originally Posted by fieldm

Not about him but about the link. Great job skipping over the link

The comments are the best thing about this. King essentially gets his hat handed to him.

[jsvh]

Originally Posted by cqholt

Have you contacted her campaign to ask? Emails, tweets, etc.

I have been very deliberately having these conversions in public including on twitter in hope of getting answers. But yes, I just sent the following email to the Norwood campaign:

Hi,

A couple policies you have listed on your site I am hoping you could elaborate on / give some examples of actions you would take in office or point to actions / legislation in other cities that reflect what you would consider as fulfilling these promises:

For transportation: "...create more highway connectors around Atlanta and within the city to provide alternative routes to reduce heavy congestion."

And

For gentrification: "Prohibit large-scale development in at-risk neighborhoods."

Thank you!

I will share what I get back.

[Pemgin]

I'm also concerned about Norwood's support for more highways/interstates. I'm not interested in fighting the freeway wars again. That was put to rest 40+ years ago. That alone is a deal breaker for me. Her lack of support for the Beltline also bothers me.

[Iconographer]

Originally Posted by Pemgin

I'm also concerned about Norwood's support for more highways/interstates. I'm not interested in fighting the freeway wars again. That was put to rest 40+ years ago. That alone is a deal breaker for me. Her lack of support for the Beltline also bothers me.

Aren't these questions that you should be addressing to her people directly instead of musing about them on here (in an apparent attempt to cast doubt on her qualifications, which seems to be the fashionable thing to do on this thread). Maybe you should follow your comrade jsvh's lead, whom to his credit seems to have acquired a sense of intellectual curiosity of late.

[cqholt]

Originally Posted by jsvh

I have been very deliberately having these conversions in public including on twitter in hope of getting answers. But yes, I just sent the following email to the Norwood campaign:



I will share what I get back.

I hope to have answers for you tonight.