Looking for a big winner from Tuesday’s primaries? Black women voters powered Democratic turnout, with candidates winning up and down the ballot. Keisha Lance Bottoms easily avoided a runoff in the gubernatorial primary, while state Rep. Tanya Miller dominated her attorney general race. Penny Brown Reynolds took the most votes in the secretary of state primary, and state Rep. Jasmine Clark won outright in Atlanta’s 13th Congressional District. The power of the black female voting bloc in Georgia elections is RISING…
Atlanta, Fulton Co. square off in tax fight
The City of Atlanta has long used tax allocation districts (TADs) as an economic development tool, leveraging property tax increases to pay for local infrastructure projects. But the Fulton County Commission has slammed on the brakes, voting 4-1 to reject a proposed 30-year extension of Atlanta’s TADs. That sets up a major budgetary clash, as the Fulton TADs would be expected to generate over a billion dollars over that period. Now the county will vote on TADs on a case by case basis, with stricter oversight and enforcement, leaving Atlanta’s money faucet DRIFTING…
