Comments on: Mary Norwood increases her lead in ATL race for mayor

By: jerome

jerome — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 16:15:03 +0000

Black or white Mayor who cares!! In the condition that Atlanta is in I believe none of the candidates are prepared to lead Atlanta. Atlanta does need change but Norwood is just as scary as Sarah Palin. Kasim is to young and can easily make early mistakes or be influenced. Borders is to passive and can easily be influenced. Norwoood is running to take advantage of an opportunity. Her heart is not into becoming the Mayor and it shows.

By: Al Wallace

Al Wallace — Sat, 24 Oct 2009 00:52:23 +0000

I think ATL blacks should start making that move north (to Charlotte).

By: Will Jones - Atlanta Jeffersonian Exegesis

Will Jones - Atlanta Jeffersonian Exegesis — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 13:48:43 +0000

All Atlantans should read the “water audit” Mary Bush Norwood trumpets as “evidence” of her “hawkish” accounting. It was a meaningless, statistically insignificant effort.

By: @sammye

@sammye — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 13:04:38 +0000

I dont know who you are, but you are a smart person that has obviously been paying attention for the past 40 years. Managing a city is more than showing up to neighborhood meetings, something Norwood’s been good at. But we need a mayor that can navigate Atlanta out of this current low-point and find our new niche.

Thanks sammye for your thoughtful insight.

By: sammye

sammye — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 03:10:02 +0000

Money doesn’t buy smarts. Norwood has street smarts but little experience nor has she offered any evidence to prove her points. It may work in the election but won’t work in managing the city. She’s a through back to the times when empty promises and factless assaults worked. She says the city has lost money but can’t explain what she’s talking about or what the water audit documented. She runs against the incumbent mayor who isn’t running. It must be easier to run against a fathom candidate than those in the race. Hartsfield had vision of an airport that would fuel the city’s economy. Allen tackled civil rights. Jackson opened the doors of government to community input. Massell championed transit. Young sold the world on Atlanta’s relevance. Franklin is the sewer mayor. Norwood admits she doesn’t understand the city’s budget or how to impact public policy as a member of Council for 8 years. So she hired a political consultant with city funds to organize her grassroots network for mayor and she’s the frontrunner and likely next mayor. My, my how times have changed.

By: Justine

Justine — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 22:12:52 +0000

It is a sad state of affairs when the top two contenders are current office holders in a city that is in financial upheaval, accused of bias and where millions go missing and no one noticed. This is why our government and our country is so bad. To continue to elect people in the position of Norwood and/or Boarders is a tragic statement on our government.

By: Surely U Jest

Surely U Jest — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 18:37:38 +0000

What you are really seeing in this year’s race for Mayor is that the people who fund the city’s budget are tired of feeling as though they have no representation in City Hall. Norwood appeals to residential property taxpayers. Reed and Borders are picking up the vote of tax consumers and special interests.

Watch the poll traffic in the the following areas Buckhead, Midtown, VaHi, Morningside, Lake Claire, Ansley Park, Candler Park, Inman Park, Druid Hills. If these neighborhoods turn out, Norwood wins without a run-off. This is where the majority of the property tax revenue comes from. Simple as that.

By: Surely U Jest

Surely U Jest — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 18:25:37 +0000

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By: Will Jones - Atlanta Jeffersonian Exegesis

Will Jones - Atlanta Jeffersonian Exegesis — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 17:30:52 +0000

Actually there is “something wrong with being a “Republican” when all aware Americans know the Gay Old Pervert party is merely a political front for the Roman Anti-Christ which has been trying to end the American Revolution since it began. It is a “Fifth Column” of traitors who ran the slave trade out of Rome, Italy, for two thousand years, killed Lincoln and Meriewether Lewis, built Big Oil on unredressed murder and arson, financed Hitler and the Holocaust, killed John and Martin to send us to die in Vietnam, cheated a draft-dodging closet-queen into the White House and committed 9/11 to take us to false war for profit.

Mary Bus(c)h Norwood isn’t “Christian,” she’s Roman Catholic, like her parents. Her family tree is on-line and she is a cousin of the same Bush scum who were Organized Crime in KC before helping the Rockefellers kill their competitors to build Standard Oil. Look it up yourself.

They are carpetbaggers who came down here after Wm T. Sherman made the Jew-loving, Jeffersonian, Protestant South “safe” for papists.

It is the Anti-Christ just as Thomas Jefferson said it is.

Do you think G-d made a mistake denying Mary Bush any children? Or did Mary not have what it takes to be a woman married to a Floral Arrangement Artist?

By: @Jackalope

@Jackalope — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 16:46:11 +0000

Also, she voted for Bush 41, Bush 43 and was a delegate to the Georgia Republican Convention in 1999. So tell me, who goes from staunch GOPer to voting for the most liberal U.S. Senator for president. I’ll tell you, a panderer that wants to be mayor of a large urban city and needs to trick the majority of the electorate to be successful.

There’s nothing wrong with being a republican, just dont hide when its time to tell the truth.