In 2005, north Fulton County residents decided they wanted their own government, but without all of the hassle. Thus, the city of Sandy Springs was born, where almost all government services are delivered by private sector companies that submit competitive bids for the opportunity to do so. It sounds like something out a Republican fantasy,
Margaret Kaiser announced she has raised over $150k in her bid to serve as Atlanta’s next mayor. Kaiser, who served in the legislature and is an ITP pizza magnate, said more than 500 people donated to her campaign and she has exactly $108,873.53 on hand. Yesterday, former Atlanta COO Peter Amman said he raised $135,000 more,
Atlanta’s former COO, Peter Amman, says he raised a total of $285,716 for his campaign. Amman wants you, dear voters, to know that he had the least amount of time of all candidates to raise money. (Last I checked there 8 candidates but I may be off one or two…dozen.) Amman has a total of $240,036 cash
Mayor Kasim Reed has earned high praise for his handling of the ongoing protest marches. He’s been in the middle of the protestors. He’s stood beside them and his police force, simultaneously. He’s done his best to allow all sides to vent their frustrations, and ultimately let everyone go him safe with their messages delivered
As a lifelong Cobb County resident, I want to briefly layout the case for re-electing Cobb County Commission Chairman Tim Lee. The incumbent Lee faces a serial candidate in Mike Boyce who almost sealed the deal during the primary but fell a few votes short of achieving the required majority. Runoff date is July 26th,
In the FB feed of your favorite GeorgiaPol.com writers came a post saying Atlanta City Councilmember Felicia Moore is running for President of said legislative branch. There is no other news on the internet and I’ve sent an email to Ms. Moore seeking confirmation and comment. I’ll update the post should I hear back. Forthwith, I
The race to replace retiring State Representative Stephen Allison is down from 4 candidates in the May Primary to 2 candidates in the July 26 Runoff. Matt Gurtler, a Rabun County home builder won the primary with 35% of the vote with Rabun retiree Kent Woerner coming in second with 22%. On Tuesday a debate
There are a handful of runoff elections on July 26, but none more important than the judicial contests. As entertaining as it may be to watch the Euro-weenie elites and their fellow travelling American counterparts have a collective meltdown over the fact that Great Britain voted to leave a common market that they first weren’t
This week’s Courier Herald column: Next week we’ll celebrate Independence Day, the day the American colonists said “enough” and chose to split from the rule of a foreign king. Our forefathers saw opportunity in charting our own destiny by providing more freedom rather than less – both economic freedoms and those of personal liberty. Last
Cindy Manning is a friend of mine. One of those I knew before and outside of current political circles. She’s a now former candidate for District Attorney in the Griffin Judicial Circuit. That was a 3 person race and she missed the runoff. I supported her, because 1) that’s what friends do, and 2) I
