Bottoms at odds with City Council

Keisha Lance Bottoms is running for re-election as Atlanta’s mayor, but this week marked a dramatic erosion of her political support. She vetoed a City Council measure giving the state control over a street at the Capitol in exchange for the state making improvements to a westside parkway. The Department of Homeland Security (since the 9/11 terror attacks!) has recommended the Capitol street be closed, which the city has resisted. But for the first time in over a decade, Council by a 10-4 vote overrode a mayoral veto. Council agrees with the state to close the street to traffic, so the veto override has Bottoms’ ship further SINKING…