Former Atlanta Mayor Kasim Reed has taken a long fundraising lead in his city’s mayoral race, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution is reporting.
Reed has raised $2.8 million and has more than $900,000 in the bank available to spend on convincing Atlantans to vote for him, according to his Sept. 30 campaign finance report. Reed is getting financial support from the entertainment and finance industries, the report shows. Reed, who was mayor from 2010 to 2018, has said he was cleared in a federal corruption probe into city hall under him.
Reed’s lead opponent in the Nov. 2 election is City Council President Felicia Moore, who has raised $1 million and has $460,000 on hand, the AJC reports.
Current Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms, who is finishing up her first and only term, announced in May she would not run again, citing the pressures of the office. “There was a pandemic. There was a social justice movement. There was a madman in the White House,” NPR quotes Bottoms as saying. “It is abundantly clear to me today that it is time to pass the baton
