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Atlanta May Today Elect First White Mayor In Decades
11-03-2009 03:30 AM EST
| By ###Don Dornberg/ab
(Atlanta, GA) -- The Atlanta mayoral race today is attracting a lot of national media attention because for the first time in decades, Georgia's capital city is poised to elect a white mayor. If some experts are right, city council member Mary Norwood is about to become the first white mayor of Atlanta since Sam Massell left office at the end of 1973. Atlanta's current mayor, Shirley Franklin, has not endorsed anyone even though candidate Kasim Reed, a former state senator, was the manger of her first and second campaigns. In 1974, Maynard Jackson became Atlanta's first African-American mayor.
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