The three Atlanta City Council members who sat before an audience in a northwest Atlanta church Wednesday night are all seeking a promotion to a higher office — and said what they’d like to leave as a legacy.
Three members of Atlanta City Council are asking voters to promote them to president of the body. The three have reported raising almost $600,000 in total campaign funds.
The organizers of an Atlanta mayoral candidate forum on green space Thursday night had to move their event to a bigger auditorium — their first venue couldn’t hold everyone who wanted to know more about what candidates propose for the city’s trees, watersheds and parks.
The top fundraisers in the Atlanta mayoral race have already broken seven figures in campaign cash.
Although Georgia is still a red state, the island of blue known as metro Atlanta is getting bluer.
Between the presidential elections of 2012 and 2016, three metro counties switched from voting primarily for Republican Mitt Romney to voting primarily for Democrat Hillary Clinton. Those three counties were Gwinnett, Cobb and Henry.
As I write this column, on the day before the presidential election, it is without knowing who will be leading our country for the next four years.
A comment I often heard during this election season, often with humor was: “If (fill in the blank) is elected president, I’m leaving the country.”
It just so happens that I’m trying to become a Spanish citizen – a move that speaks more to my heritage than my political beliefs.
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