Common Cause Georgia and pay-to-play
Common Cause Georgia has set up a handy-dandy Web site that serves as a clearing house for campaign contributions in state and city of Atlanta races _ good for citizens, journalists and opposition researchers alike.
Click here to see it, then bookmark it. The site records all contributions over $100, and is sortable.
With the web site comes a push from the organization urging four Atlanta mayoral candidates _ Mary Norwood, Lisa Borders, Kasim Reed and Jesse Spikes _ to support an effort to end pay-to-play at City Hall.
Under this proposal _ model legislation was sent to the candidates last week _ “companies entering into contracts with the City of Atlanta to certify that they have not contributed more than $250 to the campaigns of candidates for Mayor or City Council.”
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13 comments Add your comment
Julia S
September 21st, 2009
12:48 pm
I’d love to see if Borders or Norwood play ball on this.
Ray
September 21st, 2009
12:56 pm
Finally this will let Atlanta easily see who is in the developer’s pocket. And the answer would be Mohammed Kasim Reed. He’s taken the most money from corporate white developer’s boardrooms.
Http://www.atlantaprogressivenews.com/news/0503.html
Don't Fake the Funk
September 21st, 2009
12:58 pm
@ Julia S
Yes, you are correct. Borders and Norwood are the two that will be in the run off, so I hope they both embrace this as well.
newA
September 21st, 2009
1:18 pm
The most interesting will be Borders’ contributions. I read a while back Cousins Properties raised over $200k in one fundraiser. Does Cousins do business with the City? If so, she may have some issues…
Julia S
September 21st, 2009
1:22 pm
newA: I don’t see that Coucsins fundraiser money on there, but there are four maxed out contributions from them. kinda seems like a drop in the bucket compared to her other contributions though — i was expecting to see more…
Julia S
September 21st, 2009
1:24 pm
wow! Mary has a lot of money from SW Atlanta. $5 and $10 donations though…maybe from the collection plate? LOL
The Snark
September 21st, 2009
2:14 pm
The only thing that a $250 limit will do is force the developers to do what they’ve done since the 1960s: give $250 to each of their kids and employees with instructions to give it to candidate X.
And RAY: the “let’s highlight the candidate’s sinister foreign sounding name” tactic isn’t new. It didn’t work on Barack Hussein Obama. If you don’t think Reed should be mayor, then give us a real reason.
Oh Intown Writer...
September 21st, 2009
2:15 pm
this data is seriously old, and does not give a current snapshot of City Council races.
Get Real
September 21st, 2009
2:40 pm
This is why I don’t support Reed for Mayor…David Shafer Senate Committee Duluth, GA 5/5/2008 $2300.00 General David Shafer Senate Committee… He sold out South Fulton County on a number of issues.
Get Real
September 21st, 2009
3:36 pm
Julia S you are so naive. Small donations in bunches equal more money and real votes. You bigot
Chloe
September 21st, 2009
5:05 pm
Lisa Borders will definitely have a problem with this. She’s already had ethical complaints filed against her.
http://www.sundaypaper.com/Blogs/TheRamageReport/tabid/235/articleType/ArticleView/articleId/4531/LISA-BORDERS-ETHICS-PROBLEM.aspx
Betsy
September 22nd, 2009
12:42 pm
The ethics complaints were already dropped Chloe (and the AJC reported it): http://www.ajc.com/services/content/metro/atlanta/stories/2009/05/06/borders_ethics.html
Ramage’s goons are out on the prowl, I see.
Globals
October 2nd, 2009
10:00 pm
all good things