Comments on: What Shirley Franklin said about the mayor’s race

By: Concerned Atlantan

Concerned Atlantan — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 12:14:30 +0000

Shirley, are you joking? Actually coming on a blog and writing about somebody else’s questionable ethics? Yes this might just be the “Perfect Storm” that elects an “unqualified politician”…or could it just be the backside of the same “Storm” that elected Obama?

By: Shirley Franklin: Mary Norwood hasn't demonstrated competence to be ATL mayor | Political Insider

Mon, 26 Oct 2009 14:52:35 +0000

[...] The e-mail appears to be an elaboration by Mayor Franklin on remarks she made about Councilwoman Mary Norwood at the Hungry Club last week, as described in Sunday’s column. [...]

By: Oprahs Vajayjay B. Painin

Oprahs Vajayjay B. Painin — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 12:56:35 +0000

Shirley – I guess we need to provide the criminals with a computer and access to the internet, because they apparently don’t know they are supposed to stop the robberies and murders downtown.

Atlanta is well on its way to becoming the next Detroit. Go back and look at the history of that city over the last 40 years and you will see the parallel. As businesses leave town because of high taxes and crime. Without business being located downtown, no one goes there to shop, dine, or anything else. Why? Crime, panhandlers, traffic, etc. And with property values are eroding its just a matter of time……..

By: Ghetto Grandmothers Baby Daddy

Ghetto Grandmothers Baby Daddy — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 12:50:24 +0000

Hey HAHA – whatcho talinbout Willis. My BabyDaddy da furst assistent junior manager at da IHOP. Wezz furst class, yu jive ass turkey.

By: HAHA

HAHA — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 12:42:05 +0000

@Ghetto Grandmothers Baby Daddy

You know good and well; your toothless, meth-addict, incest-loving daughter ain’t going to nobody’s college. You may as well sign her up for the Waffle House waitressing program now.

By: Ghetto Grandmothers Baby Daddy

Ghetto Grandmothers Baby Daddy — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 12:10:01 +0000

Shirley – crime is down, really??? If it’s down around the Georgia Tech area then I’d rather send my kid to college in Baghdad where she’d be safer. You jus ignunt!

By: shirley

shirley — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 12:01:15 +0000

Ian, check the web the Crime Rate is down not up. The issue isn’t the crime rate; it is the crime. Though the rate is down, there are way too many crimes….

By: Whistler's Mother

Whistler's Mother — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 03:27:49 +0000

Let the great Farewell Shirley victory tour begin. The rehabilitated sewer system will be Shirley’s “accomplishment” (if you ignore the fact that the watershed department was wasting money on things that had Nothing to do with sewer rehab). The Oracle computer system will be Shirley’s “accomplishment” (if you ignore the fact that went over budget more than most technology projects like it). But having brought ethics back to the City? Really? Even the CEOs of most big companies wouldn’t say that. Not with a straight face. There have been too many people over these 8 years in upper management and department management having dinners and taking trips with city vendors (trying to get a job) to make that claim. And honest but dumb is costing the tax payers just as much as crooked and smart did.

It doesn’t matter which candidate wins. None of them is up to the job they are going after and her chiefs laid off or ran off too many of the competent people (the ones who weren’t friends, relatives or mistresses of commissioners or deputy commissioners) for the winner to get the job done. On January 4 or 5, it will all be just be another portrait in the basement of city hall.

By: Ian Kvosivich

Ian Kvosivich — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 01:45:59 +0000

Wow, BeReal, you are a racist. “Blacks can’t keep a family together, you think they can keep a city/country together?” Are you a straight up member of the KKK?!? The south has a history of holding African Americans back and one of the most long term effects can be seen in the field of education. It just so happens I am one of the people that still have a job as well. I also know some great people who have African American origins and are among the people who still have jobs. The real issue is between the fact that the city has had some incredibly corrupt mayors in the past who have screwed over our city finances and the rising violent crime rates. You want to pretend that Atlanta is one of the most racist places, then have at your fantasy world. There is a lot of racial tension here compared to some places in, maybe, Canada, but comparing the U.S. to the rest of world is just naive. If I as “as slow as the day is long” then that is a damn fast day. I wonder what the all other “Chocolate Citi[es]” are that need help according to you. When is the last time you have studied youth gang issues or attended an OJJDP National Youth Gang Conference? Atlanta needs to address its gang issues before the gangs get an even more serious foot in the door.

By: Ghetto Grandmothers Baby Daddy

Ghetto Grandmothers Baby Daddy — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 01:27:18 +0000

Matt C and Silly Season – thanks for playing along. Your consolation prize is the Nobel Peace Prize. We’re giving them out early and often for all the hard work that you are going to do. For anyone else that wants theirs’, please send a self addressed stamped envelop to:

Cynthia Tucker
c/o Where my Nobel at
AJC
Atlanta, GA