Mary Norwood Just Lost the Mayoral Election
If you’re running for office in Atlanta you don’t like President Trump. Even if you do. Prevaricating on if you do or don’t might be the worst position to have and that’s the one Mary Norwood took today.
At a forum presented by V-103 and WAOK, Norwood was the only candidate who couldn’t articulate a position on the President. (The video below starts at her response and, shockingly, every other candidate doesn’t like President Trump)
The slowest, biggest meatball imaginable was lobbed down the plate to all nine candidates at the end when asked: “what are your thoughts about Trump?”
Norwood had to clarify her position after a taunt from Sen. Vincent Fort. Her response:
“We have a president. I may not like the president. I may not support the policies that are in this country. But we have a president. This is what happens in this country. That election stands. If people wish to impeach the president they wish to impeach the president.
“But I, as the next mayor, will be committed to getting the most I can get for Atlanta in financial resources from every single part of the governments in this country.”
Dude.
Let’s see. The audience was conservatively 90% African-American, I’m going to guess. Trump won (if my reading is correct) a whopping eight precincts in the City of Atlanta. You’ve been accused of being a Republican this entire election and in 2009. The voters love it when candidates can’t say where they stand on big issues. Like, who do you think you’re going to win over? She could have won more voters if she said she still likes the Braves.
Unforced errors will once again cost Norwood an election. She should then ride off into the sunset.
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I question her intelligence. Why wouldn’t you hit a slow ball down the middle in the strike zone?
you have to be completely brain dead to even ask a stupid question like that. Go ahead and vote for Fort, or Keisha or Ceasar…GTF and do it and watch what will happen to your traffic. You think Trump is gonna release federal dollars to fund a single inch of Marta, new roads, light rail or even a friggin bike trail…….oh yeah……Marta is funded by the city and thats not fair…were are gonna demand everyone else pay for it……good luck pal. Maybe you can demand the state pay for it….unfortunately none of the people on that panel can do sh!t because the state legislature wont work for them. So now what cha gonna do genius…..who are you going top demand pay for all this? Id love to hear your answer..please….Im dying to hear it……
I might try but I don’t understand the question.
B, I’m not sure who he’s talking to…
I personally didn’t see anything you said to warrant the response
Sorry bout that. Didn’t realize it was Gregs who’d made the comment
The little red button in the bottom center escaped the notice of the “expert” who likes name calling. Or, he/she doesn’t know the meaning of “reply” I can’t tell which one it is.
either way you still didnt answer the question so let me restate it…..since you insist on picking a fight with Trump how do you plan to fund all the infrastructure improvements the city needs? And TSPost doesnt count since its all matching federal and state dollars…
I think there is a valid point to be made that a positive relationship w the Pres would enable ease of administrative access, and perhaps even Congressional movement on fed policy and funds. The sub-questions to that are: how long does anybody stay on this Pres.’ good side, and as ACP said- what would be the actual substantive follow through and its relative value? What might ATL need to do for political purposes in exchange? Then the larger question remains- whether the value of said exchange is worth it relative to the other resources the City could muster. There is the concurrent story about the fed DoT/ Fed Rail Auth with the line to ‘Nooga. So….
I am taking odds at 10:1 that our actual State of Georgia begins to fund regional transport authorities within 5 yrs.
Go back and read Charlie’s post on arguing with yourself. I can’t dignify you with a meaningful response since your post makes absolutely no sense in light of my comment.
This makes no sense. The TSPLOST and MARTA sales tax are local dollars that may be matched with federal dollars, but they don’t have to be. At this point, no project is in the federal system with the local match provided by those local funds. Yes, they could be used as match, but that decision is up to the City for TSPLOST local dollars and MARTA for it’s local dollars. Also, Georgia has no matching programs, it is all local (i.e. county or municipal funds) that provide a federal match for transportation projects, unless it is on a state highway or high priority connector and then the GDOT usually uses the local match to reduce the state burden.
My usual disclaimer, since I’m a public servant, I read this site daily, I only tend to comment on transportation issues to try to clarify how the process works.
If her conservative leanings were going to hurt her, that would have happened already.
It’s getting harder and harder to equate “conservative” and “Trump”.