Outgoing Atlanta mayor not backing likely replacement
ATLANTA (CNN) - Atlanta's outgoing mayor announced Monday that she will not be voting for the candidate poised to become the city's first white mayor in more than three decades. In an exclusive interview, Mayor Shirley Franklin... [read full story]
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Racial lines define results
Now the two candidates have roughly a month to fight for every voter among an electorate that seems to be exhausted and mistrustful. And the ever-present issues of race, gender and class — which showed up throughout the...
Group to mayoral candidates: Don't fan racial flames in campaign
A group of ministers urged Atlanta mayoral candidates Mary Norwood and Kasim Reed to avoid race-based appeals to win votes in the Dec. 1 runoff. D.L. Winston, president of the Greater American Ministerial Association, said he's...
Race, attacks expected in runoff
ATLANTA — If history is any guide, the runoff for mayor in Atlanta will be an expensive, bare-knuckles brawl that could lay bare racial divisions in the city that served as the cradle of the civil rights movement. On Dec. 1,...
Church leaders urge candidates to avoid race-based campaign
A group of Atlanta ministers urged the city's mayoral candidates to "avoid fanning the flames of racial polarization" in their runoff campaigns. D.L. Winston, president of the Greater American Ministerial Association, said he...
Race, attacks expected in runoff
ATLANTA — If history is any guide, the runoff for mayor in Atlanta will be an expensive, bare-knuckles brawl that could lay bare racial divisions in the city that served as the cradle of the civil rights movement. On Dec. 1,...
Borders To Make Thursday Announcement
ATLANTA - The third place finisher in Tuesday's election for Atlanta mayor will be making an announcement Thursday afternoon. Outgoing City Council President Lisa Borders will make the statement later today, according to her...
Reed "May" Attend Borders Announcement, Norwood "Not Invited" Yet.
The third place finisher in the Atlanta mayor's race, Lisa Borders, will make announcement Thursday afternoon, and one of the two candidates in the upcoming runoff, Kasim Reed. "may" be there, while the other one, Mary Norwood,...
Mayor Franklin Believes Atlanta Will Rise Above Race in Mayoral Campaign
ATLANTA, Ga. -- Atlanta Mayor Shirley Franklin on Wednesday congratulated the two top candidates who advanced Tuesday night to a run-off election in their battle to succeed her. Mary Norwood, a white woman, and Kasim Reed, a...
Atlanta's race for mayor heads to runoff... Votes fall along racial lines...
Mary Norwood swept predominantly white precincts of the city Tuesday, and also found support in key black precincts, while former state senator Kasim Reed dominated his base in southwest Atlanta and had a strong showing in...
Kasim Reed Is Upbeat About Runoff
ATLANTA -- Flush with a strong finish and a spot in the December runoff -- Kasim Reed is staying upbeat, while rebooting his campaign for the month ahead. "I think we have run a very high-minded campaign," Reed said during an...
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