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Cathy Woolard â the first openly gay elected official in Georgia who placed third in the 2017 Atlanta mayorâs race â wonât be the cityâs next mayor. She announced Thursday sheâs sitting this campaign out.
âAfter more soul searching than you can imagine, Iâve decided not to put my hat into the ring in the upcoming election for Mayor of Atlanta,â Woolard (photo) wrote in an email to supporters.Â
âYou know that my love and vision for Atlanta is all-consuming at times, but the prospect of spending every day over the next year calling you all for funds and campaigning by Zoom rather than in person is just not a commitment I can make right now,â she added.
4 Things To Know About Felicia Moore, The Woman Running Against Keisha Lance Bottoms For Atlanta Mayor
Felicia Moore, Atlanta City Council President, will be one of several to battle Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms, who is running for reelection.
January 28, 2021 at 7:40 pm
Atlanta City Council President Felicia Moore officially announced on Thursday that she would be taking on Atlanta Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms in the mayoral race this year, according to The Atlanta Journal-Constitution and 11Alive.
In her announcement, she leaned heavily on the need for more to be done about the city s crime and called out the city government for corruption.
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The Atlanta mayoral race will be held in November, and Atlanta City Council President Felicia Moore has filed legal documents with the state to start raising campaign funds in her first steps toward running against the incumbent, Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms. Despite Moore’s petition, she’s going to have a hard road ahead of her because a few pillars in the city’s music industry are not feeling her.
Moore pinched a nerve in 2017 when she was a District 9 City Council member and tried to pass a restriction that would have required recording studios in Atlanta to have a special permit and be located at least 300 feet from residential neighborhoods. She was the only one who voted for the restrictions as well.
Report: Crime in Atlanta highest it s been in 2 decades
By FOX 5 Digital Team
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ATLANTA - Officials in the City of Atlanta describe 2020 as one of the most violent years the city has seen in the last two decades.
According to data from the Atlanta Police Department, there have been 154 murders between the start of 2020 and last Thursday.
That s compared to 95 during the same time frame in 2019.
Shootings are up as well. The data shows 692 shootings as of last Thursday, compared to 480 in the same period in 2019.
Advertisement We ve got to go beyond hoping something gets better. We really have to find those actionable items that we can be responsible for across the board, Moore said.
Posted December 10th, 2020 for UNITE HERE Hospitality workers were joined by Atlanta City Council members and allies to highlight campaign to knock on over one million doors to elect Raphael Warnock and Jon Ossoff ATLANTA Over 500 UNITE HERE housekeepers, bartenders, cooks, and concessions workers rallied in Atlanta on Wednesday to stress the urgency needed to take back the Senate. They were joined by Atlanta City Council Members Michael Julian Bond, Matt Westmoreland, Andre Dickens, Amir Farokhi, Cleta Winslow, and Natalyn Archibong, CEO of the New Georgia Project Nsé Ufot, AFL-CIO Executive Vice President Tefere Gebre, and other allies. “Unions built the middle class and deserve a seat at the table. That’s why your work is so important. Because if we want to win a senate majority that can pass transformative legislation for working people like the PRO Act, we need to win both senate seats in January here in Georgia,” said