The two candidates in the runoff to be Atlanta’s next mayor met at a forum Tuesday night, in front of the woman who might just be the queenmaker in the race, and her court, of sorts.
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Former Atlanta mayors split endorsements
Just ahead of Atlanta runoff election day, three incumbents of the mayor’s office don’t agree on which mayoral candidate is the best one to make sure the city fulfills its promise.
In front of City Hall this morning, Shirley Franklin, who served as mayor for eight years starting in 2002, said she wants Mary Norwood to be the next mayor.
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Vincent Fort urges mayoral runoff candidates to look to his platform
Vincent Fort, who said he ran a mayoral campaign designed to bring attention to the issues of income inequality and income immobility in Atlanta, announced on Wednesday that he’s not making an endorsement in the runoff.
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Another round of mayoral endorsements
One of Georgia’s Democratic gubernatorial candidates says she’s supporting Keisha Lance Bottoms for mayor, while mayoral hopeful Mary Norwood lines up the support of a defeated rival.
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Mayoral candidates start Thanksgiving week with endorsements, taxes
On a cold Monday in Atlanta, the mayor’s race is getting hotter: Keisha Lance Bottoms started the day with official endorsements from some Atlanta Democrat heavyweights. In the afternoon, Mary Norwood released her several years of her tax records and challenged Bottoms to do the same.
And in between, the two both took turns with their late-campaign stump speeches and answering questions at a gathering of perhaps two dozen clients and staff of the Downtown branch of Dentons, the international legal and lobbying mega-shop.
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Top Atlanta candidates face off, talk party, ethics
Just 11 days before early voting starts, runoff candidates for Atlanta’s top offices met to take questions from reporters — and each other — about ethics, party and more.
At a Thursday morning Atlanta Press Club debate in the WPBA-TV studio, mayoral candidate Mary Norwood tried to truss Keisha Lance Bottoms to scandals at a City Hall presided over by Bottoms’ ally Mayor Kasim Reed. And Bottoms pushed to link Norwood to the Republican Party. And that was less than 10 minutes into the debate. (Videos at the bottom of the page.)
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Mayoral candidate Keisha Lance Bottoms lines up support of former opponent
One of Keisha Lance Bottoms’ former competitors in the mayor’s race now says he’s endorsing her.
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As Atlanta’s skyline grows, so does city’s affordable housing crisis
By Steven Labovitz The cityscape, culture, and even color of our bustling city in the forest is changing faster these days than most people’s socks. Everywhere in Atlanta massive, new structures are going up as older, crumbling ones are razed. What was once a blighted factory on the east side is now trendy loft space […]
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SART holds Atlanta mayoral run-off forum with Bottoms and Norwood
The Sustainable Atlanta Roundtable on Friday morning set the stage for the Atlanta mayoral run-off campaigns for City Councilwomen Keisha Lance Bottoms and Mary Norwood.
Both candidates described their platforms for making Atlanta a more sustainable city, and both seemed to be keenly aware that the environmentally-focused voters would be critical to winning the Dec. 5 runoff to succeed Mayor Kasim Reed.
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Second round of mayoral campaigning, forums begins
In a short forum Downtown on Thursday night, a small live audience and viewers on Facebook heard from the next mayor of Atlanta, as the two runoff candidates spoke about their priorities and pushed back against what are bound to be recurrent concerns.
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Atlanta mayoral hopefuls face off in unconventional forum
Many an improv troupe has pulled an audience member down to the stage at Dad’s Garage theater. But a week and a day before Atlanta city elections, it was nine mayoral candidates placed on the stage there to answer unconventional questions.
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Atlanta elections notebook: Council president fundraising reaches near $750,000
Three candidates have collectively raised almost three-quarters of a million dollars in their contest to be the gavel-brandishing top officer of the Atlanta City Council.
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Atlanta mayoral candidates question each other, days before early voting starts
Days ahead of the start of early voting in Atlanta, top mayoral candidates are looking not just at the issues, but are going on the attack a bit in their bids to get into — and win — a runoff that’s all but certain to come.
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Third quarter brings more than $2 million into mayor’s race
Folks angling for the mayor’s office in this year’s election have came up with some $2.2 million in new dollars for the race — just in the three months to Sept. 30.
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Atlanta mayoral candidates sketch plans for arts spending
Atlantans packed a room at the Woodruff Arts Center on Monday night for a performance that can only happen every four years — Atlanta mayoral candidates bidding for the votes of art lovers.
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Atlanta mayoral hopefuls talk traffic, transit fixes
Last year, Atlanta voters approved new sales taxes to pay for transportation and transit builds. This year, mayoral candidates are talking about what they would do in a city that’s raising cash, is predicting a lot of new residents and that aims to attract big employers.
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Mayoral hopefuls’ pitch to business: partnership, permitting
Six top contenders for the mayor’s office told a business group’s forum that City Hall needs to change some of its ways.
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Mayoral candidates promise to find affordable housing cash
In a packed forum, top mayoral candidates said their ideas for raising money for affordable housing polices range from parking taxes to bonds, to maybe even casinos.
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Mayor candidates talk equity, vie for green vote, at Downtown forum
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.
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Three Atlanta mayor candidates top $1 million in campaign cash
The top fundraisers in the Atlanta mayoral race have already broken seven figures in campaign cash.
