In a letter, Bottoms outlined some of the successes of her administration over the last four years, including raising the minimum wage to $15 an hour, handling a cyber attack, and creating an affordable housing trust fund.
During Bottom’s term, the city saw numerous protests and riots in the wake of the George Floyd shooting and a 58% rise in homicides in 2020. Bottoms also faced a serious challenger in Felicia Moore, the president of Atlanta’s city council, former Atlanta Mayor Kasim Reed and 2014 Gubernatorial candidate Jason Carter, according to Fox News.
Bottoms says she is not stepping down because of her reelection prospects, according to FOX News. In her letter, she says that she had the single most successful fundraiser of any Mayor in Atlanta and that polls show that she would win the election.