The discussion of social issues and happenings across the South (sometimes the nation). Along with some rants about things such as the media (radio, TV, and internet), music, etc. from a socially progressive yet politically independent perspective.
Tuesday, November 3, 2009
This is the evening of reckoning for mayoral candidates in Atlanta and Houston
Well, from the looks of things Atlanta might have its first white mayor in nearly 4 decades and there is a possibility that Houston will elect its first gay mayor.
However, in my humble opinion I doubt Houston will elect the gay candidate, Annise Parker, not because she's a lesbian rather because the polls says that the current Houston City Council member, Peter Brown, is way ahead in the polls. Parker is the current Houston City Comptroller. The issue of contention isn't anybody's personal life rather the city's budget issues. Anyways, they're 3 Democrats (Brown, Parker, and Gene Locke, a Houston's former city attorney), 1 Republican (Roy Morales), 2 Independents (Luis Ullrich and Dan Cupp), and Socialist Workers party candidate, Amanda Ulman (???? because that's exactly how I felt). Well, I can guess Brown will be Houston's next mayor...
Now on to Hot-ass-mess-tlanta AKA Atlanta with the contentious race between Mary Norwood, Lisa Borders, and Karim Reed is going to be epic. Sunday night at the last televised debate for the mayoral candidates everybody decided to play pop goes the Norwood. Borders and Reed were both accusing Norwood of being a Republican in disguise. All of them including non-so-front-runner were all attacking one another. Borders went after Reed accusing him coming up with a unrealistic plan to hire 750 new police officers for Atlanta PD. It was a mess to say the least. Oh yeah, after all the muck-throwing Norwood is still leading as of this morning in recent polls. However, a run-off is a coming...
Oh yeah, Charlotte-Mecklenburg AKA Charlotte is suppose to be electing a new mayor as well today. Current sitting mayor and former Republican gubernatorial candidate for North Carolina, Pat McCrory, isn't running for reelection, so it's a wide open race. It's between Republican John Lassiter and Democrat Anthony Foxx. Charlotte is a moderate-right leaning place, and Lassiter is polling as this morning ahead of Foxx. Honestly, I don't care much for whore-itself-out-for-a-dollar Charlotte, but since it's in the South I will discuss it. Good luck on that Charlotte...
More as it comes.
Labels:
Atlanta,
Charlotte,
Democrats,
Houston,
LGBT,
Republicans,
urban issues
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
- Birmingham Blues
- Blog for Democracy
- Blog for Democracy
- Different Day, Same Shit
- Field Negro
- Fresh Loaf (Creative Loafing Atlanta)
- Georgia Politico
- Institute for Southern Studies
- Jack & Jill Politics
- Jasmyne Cannick
- Land Matters
- Left in Alabama
- Like the Dew
- Living Out Loud with Darian
- Maybe it's just me...
- Miss Jia
- New Possibilities
- Pam's House Blend
- Peach Pundit
- Poverty, Planning, and Politics
- Rod 2.0
- Second Front
- Shaela R
- Skeptical Brotha
- Southern Political Report
- Stuff White People Do
- The Daily Voice
- The Rude Pundit
- This Week in Blackness
- Urban Radio Nation
Followers
Blog Archive
-
▼
2009
(180)
-
▼
November
(49)
- Something to think about...
- Mike Huckabee screwed up BIG TIME
- Mobile mayor Sam Jones endorses Artur Davis for go...
- Racial Fatigue and why some want to say bitch and ...
- Same-sex unions, Atlanta mayoral race, and HUH?
- Tiger Woods and his ness
- Why Urban Radio sucks!
- HUH?
- Republican National Committee is requesting purity...
- The Queen B redeems herself with me...
- Mayor Races on Race and Sexuality
- In 2008 hate crimes down in Alabama, but...
- An opinion that appeared in the Baltimore Sun
- Haley Barbour and his recklessness of MS HBCUs and...
- Assed out literally!
- WTF?!!!
- Political humor or sabotage? Both in Birmingham an...
- If you are black or Latino and male, chances are y...
- YAWN! The AMA last night...
- Jesse Jackson and his "foot-in-mouth" syndrome and...
- OK, the People magazine "Sexist Man Alive" edition...
- How many hate crimes associated with the South wil...
- Well, the shuttered LGBT-oriented publications car...
- Oh, Tallahassee! Your showing your small pundit r...
- Martha Stewart is a Bitch with a capital "B"
- UGH! Here we go again
- Mayoral forums for Birmingham Mayoral Candidates
- Why do I hate smaller cities and towns?
- Smaller cities are losing their appeal for medium-...
- Thank God! Arrington is not running
- Oh Donnie McClurkin
- The Catholic Archidoses of DC threatens to pull a ...
- OK, now I'm getting annoyed
- More political grandstanding and bizarre things oc...
- "Lay-low Brown" and Carole Smitherman announces th...
- Emory Anthony announces his candidacy for mayor of...
- THE RAW FACTS: About the HR Vote & Artur Davis & o...
- RANT: Smoke and Mirrors
- Poor Virginia...
- Patrick Cooper will announce his candidacy as Birm...
- RANT: Voter apathy, the beginning of the downfall ...
- J.P. Morgan Chase has to forfeit $647 million of J...
- Results of the Atlanta, Houston, and Charlotte may...
- Birmingham will have its special mayoral election ...
- Birmingham Business Alliance is pushing forward wi...
- Judge Asshat in Louisiana resigned
- Birmingham is in the hole thanks to Steve Sayler a...
- This is the evening of reckoning for mayoral candi...
- BJCTA gives the service in Hoover a 30-day extension
-
▼
November
(49)
I live in NC but in Raleigh so too bad i cant vote in charolotte but some of those mayors they have had in charolotte have been the absolute fewl!
ReplyDeleteHello, i am glad to read the whole content of this blog and am very excited and happy to say that the webmaster has done a very good job here to put all the information content and information at one place. Personal Injury Attorney Houston
ReplyDelete