Campaign for Atlanta mayoral forum videos go live
August 6, 2009 at 2:29 pm by Thomas Wheatley in News
In mid-July, the citizen coalition Campaign for Atlanta held a two-day series of forums with Atlanta mayoral candidates Lisa Borders, Mary Norwood, Kasim Reed and Jesse Spikes at the Carter Center.
Topics covered during the events included Department of Watershed Management issues, creating and maintaining a competent city bureaucracy, and police and fire issues. Candidates were grilled by civil engineer Bob Bunker, Georgia Tech Professor Jim Martin, former Fulton County Manager Sam Brownlee, former Atlanta Deputy Police Chief Lou Arcangeli and former Atlanta Fire Chief David Chamberlin.
All 32 videos of the event, grouped by candidate remarks and responses, were made available today on Campaign for Atlanta’s website. We’ve uploaded each candidate’s opening remarks after the jump.
Opening Remarks
Lisa Borders
Mary Norwood
Kasim Reed
Jesse Spikes
(Screenshot from Campaign for Atlanta)
August 6th, 2009 at 9:15 pm
I suggest the organizers of Campaign for Atlanta get an early start on their Campaign for Georgia. However, I doubt the Republicans who run this group will admit that State Govt led by their boy Perdue needs the more fixin’ than City govt.
Perdue has furloughed state patrol officers, mismanaged the budget, cut education funding, and totally dropped the ball on transportation to the point the Feds froze their grants – all in one year!
Matter of fact, I say we skip the Campaign for Atlanta and move right to the Campaign for Georgia.