Join Jesse Spikes as he kicks off mayoral campaign
June 17, 2009 at 5:48 pm by Scott Henry in News
Who is Jesse Spikes, you ask? Well, here’s your chance to find out.
Spikes is a former Rhodes Scholar and a senior partner with McKenna Long & Aldridge, one of the city’s largest law firms. He’s also running for mayor, having announced his candidacy a little more than a year ago, just before City Council President Lisa Borders — temporarily — dropped out.
Over the past year, I can’t say that Spikes has made many waves in the mayor’s race, but I’d comfortably rank him first among second-tier candidates. At the end of the last disclosure period, he had about $125,000 in his campaign war chest — far short of the amounts being raised and spent by the three first-tier candidates: Borders, Councilwoman Mary Norwood and state Sen. Kasim Reed. In fact, in the first quarter of 2009, Reed raised more in a week than Spikes raised in three months. The next round of disclosures should be out in early July.
Anyway, if you like underdogs or are simply not satisfied with the folks leading the field, you can check out Spikes this Saturday at his official campaign kick-off. The event begins at 11 a.m. in front of the large pavilion on the west side of Grant Park near the entrance on Boulevard. The speechifying is scheduled to begin around noon. You can study up on Spikes beforehand at his campaign website.
June 17th, 2009 at 6:07 pm
How about “Jesse Spikes of McKenna Long, the law firm starring Sharon Gay and Campbell’s chief sidekick Lebovitz. The one that makes bundles off Atlanta TAD bond deals and has greased the skids for much of what has landed us in a multi-year budget crisis, including Wayne Mason’s $40mm daylight robbery on that Beltline parcel?”
I mean, shine a little daylight on these insider connections, wouldya please?
June 17th, 2009 at 10:05 pm
Oh boy, talk about no light in dark Beltline corners – reportedly Liz Coyle has declared for District 6, instead of an At Large seat as has been the rumor for forever…
How many candidates have Beltline (financial) connections at this point?