October 22, 2017 2:00 PM
WSBTV Hosts Atlanta Mayor’s Debate Today
WSBTV will be hosting a 90 minute debate this afternoon featuring candidates running to be the next Mayor of Georgia. I mean Atlanta. Except not.
The mayor of our capital city is chosen by residents that compose roughly 5% of the state, but often speaks for all Georgians. Even for those of us in metro-Atlanta, the Mayor is the spokesperson for our brand.
Thus, this election matters, even for those of us that don’t live in the city.
You can watch the debate on WSB TV beginning at 4:30pm, or on WSBTV.com by following this link.
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Charlie
Founder of GeorgiaPol.com; Now weekly columnist Very interested in Georgia and Georginas. Interest in politics is waning daily.
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I thought John Eaves came off pretty well. Collaboration between all the various police jurisdictions seems like a good plan.
C. Mitchell and K. Hall also looked OK in my view.
K. Lance Bottoms and V. Fort probably damaged each other (although Fort probably wasn’t going very far anyway).
Kind of a weird criticism but M. Norwood almost seems a little TOO detail oriented. You would be concerned with micromanaging and lacking of long term strategy/vision.
P. Amans went way down on my list. He sounds way too much like a politician just promoting himself.
I like C. Woolard a lot, but I just can’t see her in this job. If this were a primary I might vote for her, but it’s not.
The Woolard fans – including the AJC’s Bookman – seem to forget that her tenure as city council president was a dumpster fire. She ran for the 4th district Congress seat – a race that she knew she had no chance at winning – as a face saving way of escape. Sure, that was 15 years ago and Atlanta’s demographics have changed a lot since then. But Woolard’s politics and leadership style are a better fit for the likes of Burlington, VT and Ann Arbor, Michigan than Atlanta.
Alright, refresh our memories. What should we remember about the city council president from 2002?
Primarily her alienating both the council and the electorate with a technocratic agenda that was completely at odds with the city’s constituents – I still remember Cynthia Tucker’s many columns lauding her “fiscal conservatism” – and a persona that was confrontational and abrasive. (Woolard would be a good mayor for Dunwoody though … which is where the AJC is actually located now. )
Cynthia Tucker calling someone not liberal enough doesn’t sound like a dumpster fire to me.
I thought all the Aman signs in sandy springs was strange until today when I spotted a Norwood for mayor sign in front of the early voting site at… the east Roswell library. Apparently the campaign has the city residents who work in Roswell and maybe just maybe will vote on their lunch hour demo covered.