In exclusive interview, Atlanta mayor speaks openly about prospects of joining Biden administration (Commerce: cabinet, cabin)

[staywarm2]

Originally Posted by ronricks

KLB knows there is a very strong chance she will be the first incumbent mayor in Atlanta since 1973 to be voted out of office. She saw what happened to Paul Howard and took note. We could only be so lucky to have her leave.

Oh, I think she is doing a great job. But she is smart and savvy and could be an asset in Washington.

[demonta4]

I find it weird whenever people criticize KLB on the grounds that she’s a Democratic mayor as if she’s super progressive when she really hasn’t been. I’d be glad to see the day when one of our mayors aren’t caught up with ensuring corporations get tax cuts just to build developments they’re gonna profit off of anyway.

[Gulch]

Originally Posted by demonta4

I find it weird whenever people criticize KLB on the grounds that she’s a Democratic mayor as if she’s super progressive when she really hasn’t been. I’d be glad to see the day when one of our mayors aren’t caught up with ensuring corporations get tax cuts just to build developments they’re gonna profit off of anyway.

Fulton County Development Authority is a bigger culprit and KLB can't do much there.

[demonta4]

Originally Posted by Gulch

Fulton County Development Authority is a bigger culprit and KLB can't do much there.

I have my issues with both of them. I’m not saying KLB has all the power in the world but the ways in which she uses her influence bothers me. Especially when it comes to projects that could benefit African Americans on the south side. Fort Mac should have been a shining beacon of a development and Tyler Perry could’ve been involved without building a fortress of a movie studio that doesn’t benefit residents of Oakland City and surrounding neighborhoods. The fact that she tried to give the rest of the land to him bothers me even more.

[LynnHarris1]

Atlanta Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms reportedly went from Biden's VP list to being offered a Bahamas ambassadorship

https://www.yahoo.com/news/atlanta-m...190400180.html

SOURCE: Kathryn Krawczyk, The Week (via Yahoo News)

[BobbyJayATL]

Originally Posted by LynnHarris1

Atlanta Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms reportedly went from Biden's VP list to being offered a Bahamas ambassadorship

https://www.yahoo.com/news/atlanta-m...190400180.html

SOURCE: Kathryn Krawczyk, The Week (via Yahoo News)

Pretty clear that Stacey Abrams gets credit for that.

[MattCW]

That's hilarious, even the Biden administration has no real faith in Bottoms!

[markjames68]

Originally Posted by BobbyJayATL

Pretty clear that Stacey Abrams gets credit for that.

Let’s send Abrams to The Bahamas as ambassador. A good way for her to get international experience.

[staywarm2]

Originally Posted by LynnHarris1

Atlanta Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms reportedly went from Biden's VP list to being offered a Bahamas ambassadorship

https://www.yahoo.com/news/atlanta-m...190400180.html

SOURCE: Kathryn Krawczyk, The Week (via Yahoo News)

Well, an Ambassadorship is a gift to someone political. Sort of like Newt Gingrich’s 3rd wife being named Ambassador to the Vatican (Old Newt told his 2nd wife that he wanted a divorce when she was in the hospital with cancer. What a guy!). Take some time, why don’t you and look at the people Trump gave ambassadorships to. Totally unqualified, most of them.

Although I like Mayor Bottoms. I thought she did a good job during the Black Lives Matter protests in Atlanta. She actually could be a good Ambassador, but I doubt she would want to move her family away from Atlanta.

[BobbyJayATL]

Originally Posted by staywarm2

Well, an Ambassadorship is a gift to someone political.

Donors see ambassadorships as rewards. Politicians see them (by and large, and accurately so) as exile.

They've been used for both of those purposes since the dawn of modern history. A country (particularly one with a pleasant climate, culture, or some combination) that we are on fairly friendly terms with and with whom little of substance is expected to transpire (i.e. the Bahamas and Carribbean nations generally) usually get people whose only qualification is writing checks; they can be dumber than a box of rocks.

Countries we're friendly with, but where there's more substance involved, generally still get donors or well connected folks, but who have been vetted at some level.

Countries where relationships are fraught with international drama (China, Russia) or that to be frank, suck (Central African Republic) generally get career foreign service.

But as far as politicians go, you offer someone like Keisha the ambassadorship in the Bahamas to marginalize her. Either she takes it, and she's off in Nassau for a few years far away from Georgia and DC, or she turns it down and is viewed as ungrateful; the very fact that it's known that she turned it down is part of ensuring that.

Originally Posted by markjames68

Let’s send Abrams to The Bahamas as ambassador. A good way for her to get international experience.

Clearly Abrams is taking credit for (and getting credit for) winning GA for Biden, and the Biden camp exiled one of her possible intra-party opponents as a reward.

Kind of ridiculous when you consider Abrams' ****-poor behavior during the primary, as compared to Keisha coming out early and often (when it wasn't safe to do so politically) in favor of Biden.