{"id":1705,"date":"2021-07-21T09:08:00","date_gmt":"2021-07-21T13:08:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theworksatl.com\/?p=1705"},"modified":"2024-11-02T17:17:58","modified_gmt":"2024-11-02T17:17:58","slug":"atlanta-mayoral-race-candidates-lay-out-transportation-priorities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theworksatl.com\/atlanta-mayoral-race-candidates-lay-out-transportation-priorities\/","title":{"rendered":"Atlanta\u2019s mayoral candidates address crime concerns at second forum"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>AJC: <\/em>An hour hadn\u2019t even passed during Atlanta\u2019s second mayoral forum before one of the five candidates threw shade at his competitors.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCorruption is a crime \u2026 We can\u2019t have a mayor that can fight crime in the city of Atlanta when they\u2019re facing federal investigation,\u201d City Councilman Andre Dickens said, eliciting \u201coohs\u201d in the audience.<\/p>\n<p>Dickens was actually referring to two of his opponents \u2014 former mayor Kasim Reed, whose administration has been subject to a years-long federal corruption investigation, is personally under a federal grand jury investigation for alleged wire fraud; and Councilman Antonio Brown is under a federal fraud indictment for incidents that allegedly occurred before he won office.<\/p>\n<p>The forum \u2014 moderated by Lisa Rayam of NPR\u2019s \u201cMorning Edition\u201d \u2014 was hosted by the Upper Westside Improvement District, Northwest Community Alliance, and the Works development in the Upper Westside.<\/p>\n<p>Read entire article <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ajc.com\/news\/atlanta-news\/atlantas-mayoral-candidates-address-crime-concerns-at-second-forum\/2PBQNABSPFDLLEZ6QON7OMLPGE\/\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AJC: An hour hadn\u2019t even passed during Atlanta\u2019s second mayoral forum before one of the five candidates threw shade at his competitors. \u201cCorruption is a crime \u2026 We can\u2019t have<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1706,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1705","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-press"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.0 - 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