CL’s guide to the runoffs
November 24, 2009 at 6:23 pm by Web Editor in News
This year’s city runoff elections are the most important in years, what with the mayor’s office, the Council presidency and two of the Council’s 15 seats up for grabs. It’s doubly depressing, then, to hear about how lousy turnout is likely to be.
Therefore, we’re asking you, the voters, to show up in force at the polls. And so, in order to stoke your enthusiasm, we’re offering you four compelling reasons to head to your local polling place next Tuesday. After all, as the man said, if you don’t take part in the process, you can’t complain about the results.
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November 24th, 2009 at 6:49 pm
Your endorsement of Liz over Alex will have many D6-ers scratching their heads. In particular, you describe Coyle’s refusal to take a stand on the land-use screwup at 10th and Monroe and then immediately praise her for taking stands! WTF?
If you seriously think it was bold leadership to stand against the Wayne Mason ‘plan’ to build twin towers, you don’t understand the meaning of leadership. Nobody – not even the Masons – seriously thought that an idea with a prayer of getting through. It was a ruse to lighten the city’s pockets of $40mm. Leadership would have been telling Terry Montague to get lost when she came to ABI board with the idiotic idea of paying off the Mason’s so generously with public money. That, Liz did not do.
November 24th, 2009 at 10:13 pm
I am one of those D6ers scratching my head. So Liz has been hyper-involved in every neighborhood group for longer than anyone. Does that mean anything about how well she will actually work as a representative of the district on city council? Having chaired your Homeowners’ Assocation, Condo board or PTA committee for years and years doesn’t automatically make you qualified to serve on the City council of a major city facing the complex problems Atlanta has.
I just don’t know how you can listen to the two candidates speak side by side and feel like she has the better vision and intellect for this sort of role. She is great neighborhood committee material, but in my opinion not nearly as ready to make the jump to this sort of responsibility and the issues the Council is likely to face in the next term. If she was ready to take serious stands on serious issues, perhaps she would have actually devised a position on the Beltline plan rather than sitting back while the community voted. That wasn’t leadership and sounds like someone who couldn’t decide which position was the most politically expedient until after the vote was over.
November 25th, 2009 at 8:28 am
CL missed badly by endorsing Liz Coyle. Her time on the Beltline Board showed that she was in way over her head and even worse, that she will cavalierly kowtow to developers. Though she was the “community representative” on the Beltline Board, she represented a community of one: Herself. Liz Coyle pontificates rather than listening, not a good trait for a person seeking public office. Alex Wan is somewhat untested on the public scene, but throughout this City Council campaign he has demonstrated excellent skills, knowledge, and instincts.