Terminal Station blogger to vote for Borders
There are some great local blogs here in Atlanta and one of them is Terminal Station.
Author Ben King is often busy with his schoolwork (he’s a grad student at Georgia State who will earn an M.B.A. in Real Estate next year) but when he does weigh in on issues, I find his posts thoughtful, thought-provoking and grounded in an understanding of how development works.
I’ve been watching his blog closely ever since he said a few weeks back that he would write a post indicating how he planned to vote in the Atlanta mayoral race.
That post is now up on the blog, and you can read it here. I’ll tell you that he plans to vote for Lisa Borders, but it’s worth a few seconds of your time to see why.
It might seem odd that I’m pointing you to another blog for an endorsement (or as Ben puts it, a non-endorsement, given the field of candidates). But frankly, I’m in that large pool of undecided voters.
When you see Ben’s post, I think you’ll know why I paid attention. He gives a thorough analysis of the three frontrunners. And he also indirectly raises an important question for the citizens of Atlanta: Where’s the next generation of great leaders?
I’m struck by how much is at stake here in the race. I guess it’s unrealistic to think someone of the caliber and dynamism of Barack Obama would be running for Atlanta mayor.
And yet cities such as Newark, N.J., where mayor Cory Booker has electrified voters, have managed to attract a caliber of candidates that seems to be lacking here in Atlanta.
I’ve said before that if you could take pieces of each of the frontrunners and combine them, you’d have one great candidate.
But you can’t.
So I’ll just conclude by saying: Get out there and vote. It’s what makes us Americans!
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