Comments on: Atlanta Councilmember Anne Fauver won’t seek re-election

By: Jade

Jade — Fri, 01 May 2009 18:32:33 +0000

I’d feel comfortable with either Steve Brodie or Liz Coyle. Although they aren’t at all interchangeable, they each have a lot to offer. But does anyone know for sure if Liz Coyle plans to run?

By: Atkins Park Resident

Atkins Park Resident — Fri, 01 May 2009 03:00:12 +0000

Having worked directly with Anne, I appreciate all she has done and strongly support her desire to pass the baton. She was clearly ready to be done with this work.

I’ve worked directly with both Brodie and Coyle. There is no comparison!! Brodie is clearly the person who will best represent our community. Coyle is the “insider” who has always angled to be the gameplayer trying to play all sides. She DOES NOT represent the community and is too busy scheming about her own political future to care about the community.

Sorry. I’ve seen first-hand :(

VOTE BRODIE!!!

By: cityzen

cityzen — Wed, 29 Apr 2009 02:50:12 +0000

I have to assume people run for council to do backroom deals for developer friends. They sure haven’t been doing the people’s business or we’d have something closer to a budget that covered the basics. And, to take just one egregious example, Wayne Mason would not be walking away with a $40mm profit from our taxes on his $25mm Beltline bet.

By: Lev

Lev — Tue, 28 Apr 2009 21:14:51 +0000

It’s pretty tempting to find fault with an easy target like Ms. Fauver; anyone that has to list paving 3 dirt roads in neighborhoods as well-off as those she represents is hurting for real accomplishments. But she did take the time to serve, and we should credit her for that. As I recall, there weren’t many candidates eager for the post when she ran 8 years ago. I think that part of the reason she was so distracted and rambling the last few years was that she was humiliated by her razor-thin victory over an underfunded and previously unknown candidate; that had to hurt. I believe she thought she was actually popular with her constituents, so having to hire students from Ga. State to wave signs for her and having to ask the (then popular) Mayor to come to her district on election day must have been jolting, especially after it took months for the courts to agree she had actually won. She never seemed very comfortable in front of neighborhood audiences after that; in the aftermath of the election, she rarely came to local meetings.

But let’s let her go quietly, in peace. On balance she’s no worse nor any more befuddled than Cleta Winslow or that silly person from Grant Park, and we’ve been spared the embarrassment of watching her ‘campaign.’ It’s a win-win for everyone.

By: Larry

Larry — Tue, 28 Apr 2009 19:22:10 +0000

Brodie finally got her – it just took 4 years. There’s no way ol’ Landslide Anne would ahve won this one. Wherever will we find “someone with the energy and vision” you had eight years ago? The vision to reintroduce automobile traffic into the middle of the Park? The courage to be an obeisant member of the Mayor’s Nod Squad while she was popular and then turn critical when her financial house of cards fell down?

Before you leave, how about coming up with another imaginary $15M of new revenue (most of which invovled fining citizens for one thing or another)?

By: DaleC

DaleC — Tue, 28 Apr 2009 18:45:18 +0000

Endorsed by “the Atlanta-North Georgia Labor Council, the Sierra Club, Creative Loafing, and Southern Voice”

Brodie is most definitely NOT a Conservative, likely not a Republican…

By: edgewood adam

edgewood adam — Tue, 28 Apr 2009 18:41:22 +0000

And it begins again….

By: DaleC

DaleC — Tue, 28 Apr 2009 18:38:07 +0000

BPJ – careful, logic and reason regardign Piedmont Park will get you yelled at…

Wowee – by “paving Piedmont Park with roads”, you must mean all of those park paths on which I ride my bike. If she did that (I don’t think she did), I applaud her.

By: BPJ

BPJ — Tue, 28 Apr 2009 16:29:04 +0000

It may be a surprise to parking deck obsessives, but many of us think the ABG deck is a good idea. I live near the park, and it’s easy for me to walk there. But the world doesn’t revolve around me; many of our fellow citizens find it impractical to get to the park and the Gardens by any means other than driving there. And when there are special events, the deck will help.

The net amount of park acreage devoted to automobile storage will actually go DOWN as a result of this project, as three surface parking areas will be replaced with new park & garden space. And if you really want a city that is less auto-centric and more pedestrian-friendly, then lobby your legislators to support transit. We’re not going to have fewer people driving by denying them parking places (they’ll just park anywhere); the way to our goal is options such as expanded MARTA, the Beltline, etc.

By: Oh, agony

Oh, agony — Tue, 28 Apr 2009 15:42:53 +0000

How tragic that she has lost faith in the system. She was such a tireless fighter against open government and transparency. At least she leaves a legacy of a City Hall that is a little more opaque to its snoopy taxpayers than it was eight years ago.