Kasim Reed: Atlanta’s Mayor?

Maybe if Kasim would worry more ab out being the Senator and less about maybe being mayor he could avoid whining and sounding stupid in the AJC. He is a member of the committee that had hearings on HB1112 but chose not to attend any of the hearing on the bill, and then was aghast that such an amendment was added. He was quoted at length in the AJC about his disgust with the amendment but never once mentioned that he did not bother to attend and then clearly did not bother to read the bill before voting for it.

The more I hear about Mr. Reed the more I like him. I would vote for ANYONE I could that might clean up this horrible political mess at City Hall.

Where do I mail the donations?

I can only hope there will be a third candidate, instead of Fauver or Brodie. Thin-skinned is an understatement for describing Steve Brodie.

Rpolitic,
HB 1112 passed the Senate with one dissenting vote. The amendment was a last minute addition to what was a simple house cleaning bill. Several Senators including Senator Reed are currently authoring a bill to restore this protection.

Your points are simply inaccurate.

Sounds like Micheal Bonds is going to run for Ceasar Mitchell’s seat. I guess if he’s willing to give it up, he should expect somebody to sit it in. If he runs his own mayoral campaign as badly as he did Robb Pitts, I think Reed has one less opponent to worry about.

Rpolitic:

Were any other committee members absent?

Reed at least can say he wasn’t there. I expect most if not all of the remainder of the Senate Local and Gov’t Ops Committee (Senators Grant, Weber, Lee, Emmanuel Jones, Mullis and Ramsey) are wishing they were paying better attention or didn’t attend.

I know at least one House Government Affairs Committeeperson and bill sponsor is unhappy the bill was dumped back to the House with what anyone should know would be a controversial provision without notice at the end of the session.

Dave,
With all due respect the hearing was not at the end of session and the convienent answers from those now aghast at the legislation are a bit hollow. I do not know the date of the hearing but it was well before the end of session and not an 11th hour amendment slid in under the radar.

It is true that the bill passed int he final days/hours of the session but the amendment started well before then.

And if I am not mistaken, ignorance is not an excuse and as a lawyer Sen. Reed should know better. I would have much more respect for him if he said I failed in my job to know what happened in my committee and as a Senator for voting for the bill on the floor.

He like Al Gore find the truth to be inconvenient apparently.

If you want to move to the front page you gotta play nice.

Kev, I think considering Brodie endured death threats and vandalism over representing Midtown Neighbors Association support of the infamous ‘13th street project’, along with his stints on NPU and MNA have put a few callouses on that thin skin.

Oh..and by the way…your hompage has been hacked by someone.

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Dave if that is your argument then I don’t disagree. What is bothersome about Reed in this case in particular is that he did not do his job, and then went on the AJC about how bad the bill was, when he along with I beleive 7 other members were supposed to be the first line, the committee members to vet the bill.

It is disengenous at best on Reed’s part to act so appalled and shocked.

Rick:

I had heard about the death threats and all, but I’ve not heard of any verification that any death threats were made, or that any of the neighbors of the 13th st project engaged in the sort of bullying/harrassment they were accused of engaging. No charges were filed that I’m aware of, either.

Even after what happened there, Steve has shown so much propensity to unnecessarily cause controversy, then show off his filo dough thin skin that he no longer represents us on the NPU. Good riddance, as far as I’m concerned.

The worst part of that 13th street deal is that he began the process by saying, “You’ll have a chance to comment later.” Then he ended the process by saying, “You’ve had your chance to comment.” He hates opposing viewpoints.

He really would be an awful representative of our district on the City Council.

Re: District 6 – I actually like Anne Fauver as a person (unlike some of her political supporters), but have ended up not agreeing with her on some district issues. To say Brodie is too thin-skinned is a little amusing, as Anne has privately acknowledged in the past to being too bellicose with neighborhood activists, once telling me to give her a nudge if she got too wound up as we were heading into a meeting with a group of vociferous Virginia Highlands residents. She has loyally supported the Franklin Administration, and has not been patient with opposite-minded residents. I must admit I was disappointed to hear a rumor this year from multiple people that Anne doesn’t really reside in the district but instead lives mostly down south somewhere….

“Senator Reed?” When did Ralph sneak into the senate?

I know it is more fun to single out Sen. Reed’s vote on HB1112 with the upcoming election but let’s try to remember that he was not in the minority on this vote. As a cancer survivor I am especially pleased that he co-authored “Smoke Free Air Act”.