At mayoral Beltline forum, winner is … the moderator
Tonight’s mayoral candidates’ forum on the Beltline and other green issues probably left some asking two questions: 1) Why isn’t Cathy Woolard running for mayor? And 2) did she just lay a zinger on her successor while moderating the forum?
Woolard, a former City Council president, at one point bundled a bunch of audience questions into one: How far did they expect to take the Beltline by the end of their first term?
But each of the candidates gave too tepid an answer for Woolard’s satisfaction.
“I think we are going to get transit done, but it’s not going to be soon,” answered Lisa Borders, the current Council president and one of the frontrunners in the mayoral contest.
After each answer, Woolard goaded the candidates by muttering that she still wouldn’t have transit after four years with such unambitious vision. “I’m still driving,” she’d say, Read more
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