Keisha Lance Bottoms is running for re-election as Atlanta’s mayor, but this week marked a dramatic erosion of her political support. She vetoed a City Council measure giving the state control over a street at the Capitol in exchange for the state making improvements to a westside parkway. The Department of Homeland Security (since the 9/11 terror attacks!) has recommended the Capitol street be closed, which the city has resisted. But for the first time in over a decade, Council by a 10-4 vote overrode a mayoral veto. Council agrees with the state to close the street to traffic, so the veto override has Bottoms’ ship further SINKING…
Dems find mess in CD-11
Georgia Democrats had a mess on their hands in the 11th Congressional District outside Atlanta after the party nominated Katy Stamper, later finding out she wasn’t a Democrat at all and had far-right political leanings. So they launched a write-in campaign promoting Tracey Verhoeven as the ‘real’ Dem in the race. It didn’t matter in the end as U.S. Rep. Barry Loudermilk cruised to re-election, but Stamper still got 32% of the vote to just 3% for Verhoeven. A failed write-in campaign and a messy election in CD-11 has Democrats there SINKING…
