I agree she hasn’t done enough to push the Council to take on Pennington, for instance. But I do know she rides on patrol with APD officers on all shifts and has spent substantial time at nearly every fire station in town. I think she gets what these men and women are up against and with last week’s town hall, she’s starting to find her voice on the issue.

By no measure is Lisa the perfect candidate but I think she has better experience and judgment that anyone currently in the race.

Can you explain how Borders fits any of the criteria you have outlined? She has very little experience with budgets. Her track record on public safety is zero. She has not used her power in office to do anything worth mentioning. Her development experience may qualify her for item 4, but she hasn’t shown that yet.

All that aside, I plan on supporting someone who is a least smart enough to learn on the job. Norwood’s pie-in-the-sky Republican ideas don’t excite me. Reed has absolutely no experience at all. And Mitchell’s credibility has been shot in the last six months.

I’m looking for other candidates to join the field. If not, if Lisa is the only person to get back in, I will probably support her too.

This is how I feel right now. I could be swayed many ways by events by the time campaigning and the election gets here I am at the assaement point right not. Nothing is absolute at this moment.

I’ll make my choice based on which candidate 1) actually knows how to manage a budget and has experience with large organizations, 2) will hold his/her commissioners (most notably public safety chiefs) accountable for performance, 3) will use the power of the office to figure out why Atlanta’s schools spend more money and get less done than other local districts, and 4) will fast track BeltLine acquisition (silly GDOT/AMtrak distractions aside).

Right now, no candidate gets the job. I am a Lisa supporter and if she gets back in, I think she’s the right choice.

If you would look on my coomments for Kasim Reeds tax hike proposal in the Creative Loafing issue, I pretty much outline my current feelings for the quality of this mayoral bunch. On thing I do believe is that we need a change from the past mayoral community and those associated with it and not with candidates, who coincidentally have connections to developers like Cousins or those guys. Weneed a community based mayor. In your analysis of the mayors you chose the one who is more involved in the community. I am pretty sure you may see were i am leaning right now.

I’ll resist predicting whether she’ll actually get back in it.

Lisa Borders is from the same cloak as Shirley Franlin. They are one and the same. Do not let them fool you. I am glad she is not running. Her presence, in reference to real candidates, would only take up space.

City Council president ought to be an interesting race, though.