(06-19-2020, 09:56 AM)TJBender Wrote: The mayor, on the other hand, is about the only mayor of a real city that was able to get the initial riots under control after the first night, and keep riots and looting more or less under control throughout after that, right up until an officer very questionably shot Brooks in the back. Contrast that to Minneapolis, where the mayor took days to even think about trying to control things, or LA that had several days of riots. Philly, too. Aside from her bizarre pseudo-firing of the chief of police, it's hard for me to find a real misstep on her part after being caught completely off guard by the first night of protest--a mistake she responded to in force on the second day and thereafter.

TBQH, she's the only effective political leader in the state of Georgia right now. Kemp has looked ineffective, at best, for months now, to the point that the entire Atlanta metro (including the very white, very rich parts) has been taking its lead from Mayor Bottoms, not the governor. But if you choose just to see the color of her skin and the (D) after her name before doing your usual routine, hey, your problem, not mine.

I actually didn't have a problem with the mayor. I disagree with almost everything she stands for but she never did anything that I could hate her for until now. While many people may not like what the officers did, it was a by-the-book shooting, and she ended his career (and helped ruined his life) to further her own which tells me she's a coward. I'm not sure what you mean about the metro-Atlanta following her lead? The two biggest counties (Cobb and Gwinnett) are turning blue, but the commissioners are mostly conservative.

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