Has this piece of the story been published? Where?

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Yes. Think the corporate moguls of Atlanta Committee for Progress suddenly care about the least of these? Look at the track record!
They want tax breaks & subsidies for private deals. Period!
Diverting school & city money to boondoggles won't affect them. #GApol
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Keisha used HQ2 mania to give the Ressler billionaire bros a $1.9 billion tax subsidy for the Gulch. The project's numbers were based on 9M SF of office towers for 50,000 Amazonians.
Actual offices built: 0 SF.
Keisha for the People, right?
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Did anyone bother to see that he does not claim homestead exemption for his Fulton home so it sure isn't where he lives?

In plain English, the headline would read:
Andre's $5 Billion boondoggle hinges on diverting over $200M / yr from funding our schools and city & county services.
So it would come at the expense of students, pothole repair & libraries or of higher taxes on residents.
There is no magic money tree!

Totally agree.
Some of his recent comments suggest that he sees that the curent disaster requires deep reform. Which many of his older colleagues seem not to realize.

New text.
'It's Mo again! I will bring budget transparency to Fulton, order a forensic audit, & cut waste before asking taxpayers to pay more. Can I count on your vote?'

Hey, Mo, you already tried to make us pay more. Have you forgotten? 'Cut waste'? Clueless.

You have to play nice when the stakes are low or you'll be written off, discredited. Pick the important battles.

I enjoyed meeting Mathewos to answer his questions about what I've learned in pushing for economic justice in Atlanta & Fulton County. Plus sharing memories of Vincent Fort.

We need smart, caring, young progressives in the State House like Mathewos & Jeremiah Olney!

We've known him & his folks since he was at pre-school. Lovely wife (an OB) and devoted dad of little kids.
He's not gonna Swalwell.

Why we need Jen Jordan & Miracle Rankin on that court

Yes. Speculators bounce with whatever lies Trump tells rather than reflecting the fundamental problem.
Both Iran and the US can block Hormuz. Neither can unblock it unilaterally. Agreeing would be very hard if both were competent & rational.
If US reverts to force, things could easily spiral down.

In '24, Mo told campaign supporters she'd help get commercial trophies taxed at fair market.
Then refused meeting to review sales prices vs county values; had county appraiser gaslight us on a zoom; finally, cornered, repeated billionaire BS why 0 could be done.
Plays victim when confronted.

Sorry, didn't mean you said that.
The Bloomberg guy said "speculators had it right that the price is headed lower".
But if they change their minds based on Hormuz reality, then they were wrong. It ain't headed lower.

So the speculators are always right? That's not how it works.

On Tax Day, Mamdani Taxed the Rich - The American Prospect The mayor, his supporters, and public opinion convinced their previously reluctant governor to agree to a tax on the second (or third, fourth, fifth, etc.) homes of their city’s nonresident rich.

When will Fulton County properly tax trophy towers & data centers owned by billionaire corporations?

Never, if Mo Ivory becomes chair of the county commission. She proposed a task force to communicate that it's all just fine.

Ivory is the anti-Mamdani.

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Wonder if, 8 hours after he posted this, he's so sure speculators have it right?
"listen to what the speculators are saying in the financial market. So far they’ve been proved right in judging the supply disruption and now the resolution. I agree, the price is headed lower."

Keisha is in hock to big corporate lobbies. Remember the Gulch billions!
So she won't point to the billions in Data Center sales tax exemptions that the Gold Dome MAGA clique is still protecting!
Making Data Centers pay would fund education. It would not create gambling addiction & poverty.
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Did they?

Thanks for that. I did vaguely recall a possible new wrinkle.

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Anyone else notice the absolute smear "he didn't itemize any charitable deductions"?
If you don't have enough mortgage interest and real estate taxes to itemize, you don't itemize anything.
(Unless the tax law changed when I wasn't paying attention).

See @nicktimiraos.bsky.social post today cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thu...

Have you explored whether the downward trend in labor share of income explains voter dissatisfaction?

OK, you're really going to make me go back and wade through the Power Broker, aren't you?

tl;dr: Did Moses's tricks starve NY schools and basic services of funds like Andre's would?

Protecting working people from job destruction by AI and, more broadly, from becoming serfs under a handful of super-billionaires?

Brewing legal beef over TAD extensions threatens $5.5B neighborhood renewal plan The dispute could determine whether billions of dollars fund the Neighborhood Reinvestment Initiative.

The TAD extension cash grab should be illegal. State legislative counsel opinion says it IS illegal.
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It's good that DSA is having a Forum tomorrow (4/16) for the 3 candidates for Fulton Commission Chair.
It's a key role if you want any economic justice or even competence for GA's biggest county. RSVP here: actionnetwork.org/events/georg...