The Future of Atlanta Erodes Further
Recent gerrymandering by Sherry Dorsey and the likes has resulted in the drawing of some seemingly very arbitrary and divisive political lines. She showed up at the hearings with her posse, who shouted down her opponents, calling one guy a “faggot.” She managed to preserve her political base, but I’m voting for Archibong. Any sensible resident should, and will.
Check out the latest edition of The Economist to see their coverage of our impending mayoral election. Needless to say, the political picture they paint of Atlanta is anything but flattering.
Atlanta is a booming metropolis with no leadership. We are doomed to a future of maddening, worsening conditions.
Bill, we’ll see ya later. You did some good stuff, but you pandered and pranced too much, and now you’ve left us in very bad shape. What good is another runway at the airport going to do for us if it takes us 90 minutes to commute to work?
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1 trav // Aug 9, 2001 at 4:45 pm
Atlanta will receive the leadership it deserves. Unchanneled, submerged rage against increasingly irrational governance is a just a open ocean surge awaiting landfall. All it takes is a key issue and a key player, and both of those arise as demand dictates.I don’t think the situation will worsen forever. As the demographics change within the city limits, Atlanta will revert to an increasingly moderate leadership and voting stance. The current establishment will lose hold of the bloc and the bully pulpit of the inner city needy, in turn involving into an extremist fringe. The behavior of Sherry Dorsey is exemplary of the kind of thing we’re going to see in spades in the next decade.Al made an interesting observation the other day—that it was a typical ploy of Dorsey to put a Glamor Shots picture of herself on her signs. That alone is a subtle, polarizing scam.
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