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...candidate. Borders heads the city council, and was also elected citywide. State Sen. Kasim Reed told a breakfast meeting of black ministers, "One Atlanta is a strong Atlanta. Two Atlantas is not Atlanta at all." Attorney Jesse Spikes also deplored the injection of race into the campaign. A second white candidate, political novice Kyle Keyser, has not shown up in polling...
Race, if not racism, has long tinged politics in Atlanta. The city saw a dynamic population shift in the 1960s, from a heavily white population to a majority-black makeup that neared 70% in the 1980s. But while the legacy of the segregationist past caused strains, the city never fractured along racial lines. "Atlanta is a city that has been built on black hope and white pragmatism," says Gary Pomerantz, who wrote the Atlanta history Where Peachtree Meets Sweet Auburn. "Race isn't everything in Atlanta, but it is in everything...
Jackson built a broad program to push city contracts to black-owned businesses. But the current crop of candidates - black and white - put balancing the city's books and stemming rising crime at the top of their agenda. "Atlanta is broke and broken," says Borders spokeswoman Liz Flowers. "This is about fixing a broken city...
...listening to the President's remarks regarding the coverage of illegal immigrants in the health care bill," the statement said. "While I disagree with the President's statement, my comments were inappropriate and regrettable. I extend sincere apologies to the president for this lack of civility." Wilson later called White House chief of staff Rahm Emanuel, who accepted the apology on behalf of the President...
...Obama White House officials know that too. So while they are sounding confident at this stage that the President will have some kind of health-care bill by the end of the year, they are watching carefully to see if there are more signs that they have arrested what they acknowledge has been a slide in public support. What concerns them, they say, is not what happened in August - the near riots at congressional town halls or the lies about "death panels." Instead, it is a quieter and growing public unease that they began seeing in their own polls...