Monday, December 21, 2009
News Lisa Borders appointed co-chair of Reed transition team
Posted by Scott Henry @ScottTheHenry on Mon, Dec 21, 2009 at 11:30 PM
Mayor-elect Kasim Reed today appointed a familiar face to help lead his City Hall transition team. For the next three months, City Council President Lisa Borders will share duties with noted labor lawyer Lawrence Ashe in helping select the other dozen or so team members and forming search committees to find several department heads.
Reed's top priorities, he said during an afternoon press conference, is to conduct a national search for a new police chief and to hire a "world-class" chief financial officer.
Borders also said she'll be helping look for a new public works director. Ashe is the husband of state Rep. Kathy Ashe, a prominent Reed supporter.
Reed also said he plans to launch a crack-down on violent crime that he believes is associated by a recent surge in gang activity. He said he's not encouraged by the rosy, end-of-year crime stats recounted by Chief Pennington last week.
"I don't care what the crime statistics are," he said. "What we've been seeing [in terms of criminal behavior] will not be tolerated. You will not hear me quoting crime stats as an excuse for not dealing with what people are facing."
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Now that's what the next mayor needs to be saying. So far so good, Kasim. "You will not hear me quoting crime stats as an excuse for not dealing with what people are facing."
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Oh no! Lisa Borders? The public rejected her already and she was trounced in the election. She did virtually nothing in her 6 years as City Council President. And now she co-leads the transition team? A terrible start for Kasim. So much for the man who claims he wants change.
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