Miguel Gallegos joins Atlanta City Council District 6 race
July 2, 2009 at 12:25 pm by Thomas Wheatley in NewsThe race to represent Morningside, Druid Hills, Virginia-Highland and Midtown residents at City Hall gets bigger by the week.
The Southern Voice reports that Miguel Gallegos has officially entered the contest, joining Liz Coyle, Alex Wan and Steve Brodie. Councilwoman Anne Fauver has said she would not seek a third term in office.
We’re hearing another potential candidate has been seen handing out campaign information in Piedmont Park. That mystery person hasn’t officially filed their papers yet. When she does, however, be prepared for this race — which is already spinning with political dynamics — to get even more interesting.
Gallegos, who the Voice reports is openly gay, doesn’t have a website just yet. Hey, Miguel! Send us a line sometime!
July 2nd, 2009 at 1:11 pm
Hey Liz, are you allowed to put up multiple gay candidates to dilute your opposition?
July 2nd, 2009 at 2:36 pm
Oh, Wheatley, we love/hate when you tantalize!
Who can the Piedmont Park flyer distributing potential candidate be? (Guesses?)
And when you prepare us for the race to get more interesting if this hat is thrown in, do you mean that things will get down and dirty, or that wackiness will ensue, or something else entirely?
July 2nd, 2009 at 3:15 pm
Our world will be turned on its head, Jade. On its head, I tell you.
July 2nd, 2009 at 5:08 pm
So, when will we get another straight person in the race who can challange Liz Coyle, the annointed successor to Anne Fauver and the City Machine? Coyle assisted Fauver’s campaign last time, so we need an opposition candidate – even if that person loses, it’ll still offer some local political counterweight to the pro-Machine/Developer agenda promised by Coyle….
July 2nd, 2009 at 5:26 pm
Has anyone counted the days until Anne Fauver is no longer our Council Member? District 6 needs good leadership, especially with the many challenges facing us. Anne was just about the weakest person on Council. It’s great to see so much interest in the open position.
July 2nd, 2009 at 7:38 pm
Yo VaHi, Why count the days till Fauver’s gone? You’ll then have to count 8 more years of days till Coyle is gone. Like peanut says, they’re both with the same developer-friendly machine. How much profit would you like with your land, Wayne? $40 million? No problem – it’s only taxpayer money, after all, and my voters are so dumb / ill-informed /bamboozled by Beltline PR that they’ll barely notice.
July 2nd, 2009 at 11:02 pm
Are you suggesting Liz Coyle will leave after two terms? To go to what? Mayor?
July 3rd, 2009 at 11:32 am
Darn, you’re right. That Honduran presidency spat had me thinking there were term limits for Atlanta council seats. Ms Coyle will probably stay longer and do even less good than Claire Muller over in Buckhead.
July 3rd, 2009 at 2:32 pm
I am not aware that Claire Muller ever did any good. Are you saying that Liz Coyle would only do negative things?
July 3rd, 2009 at 4:41 pm
Liz loves being in the thick of it with Morsberger and Mason and throwing capital improvements at a school system with declining enrollment. So, yes, her expensive hyperactivity seems likely to be net negative in contrast to Claire Muller’s go-along complacency (also net negative).
July 3rd, 2009 at 4:44 pm
Steve is going to win this without a run-off. Liz is a legend in her own mind. I know Liz. I don’t like Liz. I know Liz’s friends. THEY DON’T EVEN like her.
I know Alex. I like Alex. He’s a party boy. He’s going to collapse under questions.
And this Miguel. I’ve heard about his early “campaigning”. Not too inspiring. His photo in SoVo looks like a drag queen minus her wig.
Don’t forget, Steve got more than 50% of the ballots cast until Shirley intervened to save her lap dog. Steve has spent the last 4 years locking down that vote and adding to it. No matter how many people run, they are splitting a minority of the vote.
July 4th, 2009 at 9:17 am
The District 6 race will be tough. It will be won by the person who works the hardest and convinces the voters they have the integrity, competency, and experience to represent the District. It will be decided in a run-off. Brodie seems to be one of the two in that run-off, but Coyle and Wan are both serious candidates. Gallegos could also make a difference, and we’ll have to wait for Mr. Wheatley to disclose the other potential candidate.
July 4th, 2009 at 11:57 am
Liz will be seen by the complacent, pro-establishment crowd in D6 as Anne without the negatives – unless Steve paints her differently. But Steve seems afraid to take a position on anything. Perhaps he fears that most people don’t mind the tax increase, love the Beltline, have had no problem with Shirley, etc. If he’s right that this is the D6 majority’s state of mind, why would he want to represent such a bunch of doofuses?