Half of the room about fell out of their chairs this
afternoon when Kasim Reed did a SHOUT OUT to Dr. Renee L. Glover of the Atlanta
Housing Authority.
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| Andrea Boone |
Reed and the mayors of Green Bay, Greensboro, and Charlotte
were speaking before a
room full of Atlanta business people. Almost braggadocios in his acknowledgement,
Reed cited the dramatic impact Glover has had on Atlanta. The room gave Glover
a boisterous ovation.
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| Mitzi Bickers |
Glover is wildly popular here, across the nation, and especially with the Obama Administration and both Democratic and Republican members of Congress.
The speechifying hadn’t even finished before Blackberries
were buzzing about Reed's apparent turnaround in attitude toward Glover.
But it was only a month ago when the local media were reporting Reed
wanted the fiercely independent Glover replaced with a hack of his choosing (private speculation was either
Andrea Boone, commissioner of constituent services for Reed or political consultant
Mitzi Bickers).
Kasim Reed and Daniel Halpern (Reed’s Campaign Chairman,
Mega-winner of Airport concessions, and FAA-document-falsifier)
have been trying for more than a year to stare down Dr. Glover who has been
called Atlanta’s “Quiet Heroine.”
Halpern is Reed’s chairman of Atlanta Housing Authority’s board of directors. Last year it was widely reported that Reed sent Halpern to AHA with expressed orders to unseat Glover.
Whatever the explanation for his surprise, Reed left many people shaking their heads.
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