Tuesday, June 16, 2009
News Coyle makes Atlanta City Council bid official
Posted by Thomas Wheatley @thomaswheatley on Tue, Jun 16, 2009 at 4:44 PM
Jumping off from this morning's post, Liz Coyle has filed her paperwork with the City of Atlanta to run for Atlanta City Council's District 6 seat. She says she'll release a formal announcement later this afternoon.
According to Project Q Atlanta, Beltline attorneys informed Coyle she would not be required to resign. The longtime community activist is now the third candidate vying to represent the Midtown, Druid Hills and Morningside neighborhoods when Councilwoman Anne Fauver ends her term.
Project Q also has some good background on hot-button issues and the dynamics of the district. Since 1998, it's been represented by openly gay women. Coyle, who's heterosexual and married, will face off against Steve Brodie and Alex Wan, who are both openly gay.
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Gay people please make this town cool again. Atlanta is sorry. Or really really should be.
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Liz Coyle lives in Virginia Highlands, at the far end from "Midtown". She was rumored for months to run for an At Large seat, vaulting off her Beltline marketing job. But looks like the City Machine couldn't drub up a good candidate for the District, so now she's running. It's pretty entertaining to look at the backers of the candidates in all the races, and look for those backers with financial fingers in the Beltline development gravy train. The whole thing is such a fiscal fiasco ($10M under table payoffs? Sign Me Up! Paying for hugely overpriced land because City staff's too ignernt to figure out that Vulcan was closing anyways so there WAS NO revenue stream they'd be losing, and never mind Mason - I got some land fer ya!) that the City Machine can't afford to have anyone who'll take a cold hard look at its financing. If we get a good PATH out of the thing, I'll be ecstatic, because all I'm seeing is a mountain of junk bond interest to be paid off, and thousands of residents who I will have to suffer with a tax hike to pay for their needed APD, AFD and other municiple services... (b/c THEIR tax dollars are only going for immediate area infrastructure). The TAD was a bad idea, then they made it worse by taking even more money from schools (so where was the former CINS president on that little issue?), and now they're just lucky that the City's junk bond rating hasn't tanked even further into the toilet. So let's put these folks firmly in control by stacking the City Council...
Hey, Liz, who'da thunk your record as shill for Beltline buckaroos Wayne Mason and Vulcan could possibly be an issue in this election? a few of us remember that you've cheer-led for every tax increase on offer - for the Beltline TAD and for endless repeats of the sales tax penny for unneeded school construction, in an APS with shrinking enrollment. Your free-spending ways with the taxpayer's money make you the last person we need at a time of budget crisis - when the city really is reaching the end of its affordability rope.
cityzen: Steve Brodie’s biggest campaign contribution comes from Tivoli and Kim King properties…. Lest we forget how hard he fought for tivoli’s high rises on 13th street by piedmont park (they were ultimately denied after the neighbors opposed them). Who were the developers— why it was a joint development between Tivoli and Kim King Assoc. They wanted to get a property half a mile from the park rezoned so they could build 400? and twice as dense as allowed. see here, in case you dont remember: http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2007/09/26/piedmont-park-high-rise-take-two/ Funny, right after Brodie lost that case he resigned from the MNA land use committee and NPU rep…
Liz, don't you have anything better to do than post the same message several times in a row? Liz, you had your fingers first in the City Hall East deal and then all over the Beltline land flipping. Quite a champ you've been for the not so free Masonry. Maybe Brodie's a developer's whore, too. It doesn't make you any better, gal. Then there's Alex Wan of the Atlanta Development Authority board, rubber-stamping all the TADs and abatements that land lawyers can dream up. God help the poor taxpayer who shells out for all this - cos there ain't a candidate in D6 who will help us poor schmucks.
I am not Liz Coyle, and I will not vote for Liz Coyle. And yes, I will post the same thing every single time any article about Brodie is posted. He supported developers as head of the MNA land use committee. And then he takes money from the developers he supported when he was supposed to be representing neighbors interests. That doesnt seem a little off to you? I am not defending Liz, or Alex. But Alex's main campaign contributions are from gay rights people, not from developers. That speaks volumes to me.
Alex and Liz have spent the past few years in bed with big development, but Steve gets a single check from one and you're all over him? Where's the balance? Will you be there when the final accounting of campaign contributions is in? Cos it's possible that Alex and Liz's sponsors will chip in late enough to avoid questions being asked.
Not only that, but looking over the report Tivoli and corporations directly affiliated with Tivoli (sharing the address 3625 Cumberland Blvd, Atlanta GA 30339) donated a total of $3,125 which is well above the limit of $2400. They 'got away' with it by splitting it into several donations by corporations all with the same address, but the law clearly says that $2400 is the limit even when split between affiliated corporations. Unless Brodie wants to argue that there just happen to be 5 separate corporations all at the same address and two which happen to have Tivoli in their name that are un-affiliated, then he violated the campaign contribution laws. Might want to let your boy know.
Recoyle: I dont care about Alex and Liz. I am talking about Brodie. Brodie represented developers interests when he was supposed to represent neighbors interests at the MNA, and then two years later gets campaign contributions from them. Is ther noone from the MNA to defend him like there usually are??
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