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AL BARTELL – INDEPENDENT MOVEMENT LEADER – RUNS FOR MAYOR OF ATLANTA
Exploratory Committee Selects GA State Capitol for Press Conference
ATLANTA – Al Bartell, a key independent movement leader in the Southeast region of the nation, will communicate his vision for being Mayor of Atlanta at a press conference in the South Wing of the Georgia State Capitol from 12:00 noon to 1:00pmEST on Tuesday, November 9, 2010.Having the press conference at the State Capitol highlights the future Bartell administration’s strategy to have equity in governance for Atlanta's citizens, by building an unprecedented partnership between Georgia's state government and Atlanta's city government.
With Atlanta's citizens facing the burden of the city's fiscal deficit by themselves, Bartell is committed to resolving that burden with a historic city-state government partnership. “As Mayor,” Bartell asserts, “I will be interested in a public engagement strategy for governance that provides the city with the same access to state government resources as counties and state legislative districts.”
The divisive rhetoric of the two major parties has ensured that very little progress has been made in addressing the issues of most importance to the citizens of Atlanta: jobs, crime, and economic development.
Bartell’s vision of a public engagement strategy for governance gives neighborhood, community, faith, and small business leaders the same access to public policy as lobbyists, special interest groups, and corporations.
“The best opportunity in the nation,” Bartell states, “for independents to impact governance is in the city of Atlanta, the state of Georgia, and the Southeast region of the United States of America.”
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For Immediate Release
November 9, 2011
Bartell Marks First Year of Mayoral Candidacy
Public Policy Leadership Record Highlights Accomplishments
ATLANTA -- Today marks one year to the day that Public Policy Leader Al Bartell held a press conference at the Georgia State Capitol to communicate his vision for being Mayor of Atlanta. His first year of mayoral candidacy establishes a public policy leadership record that matches his words that day at the Capitol .
As cited in his first campaign press release (www.bartellformayor.com/News.html), "the future Bartell administration's strategy to have equity in governance for Atlanta's citizens, by building an unprecedented partnership between Georgia's state government and Atlanta's city government" was demonstrated by the candidate himself throughout the year. Bartell worked with public policy leaders in both the Georgia General Assembly as well as the Atlanta City Council. He made public remarks often -- and was openly acknowledged for them -- on both the floor of the Georgia State Senate and Atlanta City Council Chambers.
His public remarks drew several Senators' inquiry during August's special legislative session, as Bartell communicated the adverse impact of state redistricting. Similarly, Atlanta City Council members made favorable comments to Bartell's public remarks last May about remedies to the lack of community participation in Atlanta's City budget process.
Bartell followed through on his "vision of a public engagement strategy for governance [that] gives neighborhood, community, faith, and small business leaders [ncfsl's] the same access to public policy as lobbyists, special interest groups, and corporations”.
He listened to and engaged in public policy discussions the voices of “ncfsl’s” in neighborhood planning units (NPU's), civil rights organizations, and small business sectors.
That included international groups. Most recently, he supported the Atlanta Sierra Leone Diaspora community during Sierra Leone President Dr. Ernest Bai Koroma's September visit to Atlanta.
He supported the engagement strategies of individual leaders and groups out of their requests for his public policy involvement.
His presence at Woodruff Park, and other meeting areas of the Occupy Atlanta movement, carried with it his own personal dialogue of support and participation. On October 26, 2011, after the first Occupy arrests in Atlanta, Bartell issued a public statement on the Occupy Wall Street/Atlanta movement as Candidate for Mayor of Atlanta.
His public statement as a Mayoral Candidate landed him local television coverage and other prominent/national media coverage, such as Georgia Politico, PeachPundit, PoliticalVise,
ThinkProgress, Creative Loafing's FreshLoaf, Regator, and Portland's Independent Media (IndyMedia). His website benefitted as well, reaching nearly 4, 000 visits for its first year total.
Poised to begin a citywide public engagement strategy, Bartell’s second year of candidacy is on a course to produce public policy leadership throughout the metro Atlanta area, the state of Georgia, and the Southeast region of the United States.
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Mayoral Candidate Bartell Calls for Immediate Release of Occupy Atlanta Protesters
ATLANTA -- The following public statement is being released by Mayoral Candidate Al Bartell regarding the Occupy Atlanta situation as of 1:00pm, Wednesday, Oct. 26, 2011:
"The City of Atlanta's policy on the right for public assembly has withstood the test of time, even to the end of the twentieth century. At midnight last night, Atlanta's Mayor destroyed the cornerstone of the American Constitution and threw this city back in time to an era of violence against community.
I am calling for the immediate release of the Occupy Atlanta protesters and to re-establish the integrity of Atlanta's public policy on the right for public assembly. "
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REED VS. BARTELL: CONTEST FOR MAYOR BEGINS
GA Stand-Up "Report Card" Sessions Put Mayoral Candidate Bartell, Mayor Reed on Record
Friday, Oct. 21, 2011: ATLANTA -- Georgia Stand-Up Alliance’s back-to-back "Report Card" sessions in September and October have resulted in setting the stage for impacting the 2013 mayoral election cycle. At the Georgia Stand-Up Alliance’s September “Report Card” session, Public Policy Leader Al Bartell introduced himself as a Candidate for Mayor, and communicated a powerful question about Mayor Kasim Reed’s relationship to community input. Today, at Georgia Stand-Up Alliance’s October “Report Card” session, Mayor Reed spent an hour defending his relationship to community input.
Georgia Stand-Up’s Executive Director Deborah Scott asked the Rev. Dr. Richard Cobble, President of the Civil Rights renowned Concerned Black Clergy, to speak to a filled IBEW auditorium before bringing Mayor Reed up to answer his “Report Card” questions. Alluding to corporate and business concerns overriding the people’s concerns, and receiving strong applause from the Stand-Up audience, Cobble warned that any mayor who would be swayed by corporate concerns over the city’s community concerns should not be kept in office.
Mayoral Candidate Bartell, a well-known public engagement proponent down at City Hall, and Chairman of the Equity in Governance Initiative, received a similar positive response last month from Stand-Up’s community leaders. He questioned a Board of Education candidate as to whether it was an equity in governance issue for a Mayor to bring in the state’s Governor to deal with a city’s Board of Education matters, especially if it overrode the city’s community input.
Judging from the strong signal sent today at Georgia Stand-Up, the stage is now set for the city’s neighborhood, community, faith, and small business leaders to play an unprecedented power-brokering role in selecting Atlanta’s next mayor. And, with over 200 neighborhood associations, 75 communities of interest, 50 faith-based organizations, and 25 small business corridors in the city, that leadership is not to be under-estimated.
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http://gapolitico.com/en/2011/10/27/mayoral-candidate-bartell-calls-for-
immediate-release-of-occupy-atlanta-protesters/
http://www.peachpundit.com/2011/10/27/reeds-opponent-rips-him-for-occupyatlanta-arrests/
http://thinkprogress.org/special/2011/10/27/354895/atlanta-has-widest-gap-between-rich-and-poor/
http://clatl.com/freshloaf/archives/2011/10/07/photo-of-the-day-another-war-anniversary
http://politicalvise.com/ga
http://regator.com/p/253646880/reeds_opponent_rips_him_for_occupyatlanta_arrests/
http://portland.indymedia.org/en/2011/10/411711.shtml
Media Contact:
info@bartellformayor.com
AL BARTELL – INDEPENDENT MOVEMENT LEADER – RUNS FOR MAYOR OF ATLANTA
Exploratory Committee Selects GA State Capitol for Press Conference
ATLANTA – Al Bartell, a key independent movement leader in the Southeast region of the nation, will communicate his vision for being Mayor of Atlanta at a press conference in the South Wing of the Georgia State Capitol from 12:00 noon to 1:00pmEST on Tuesday, November 9, 2010.Having the press conference at the State Capitol highlights the future Bartell administration’s strategy to have equity in governance for Atlanta's citizens, by building an unprecedented partnership between Georgia's state government and Atlanta's city government.
With Atlanta's citizens facing the burden of the city's fiscal deficit by themselves, Bartell is committed to resolving that burden with a historic city-state government partnership. “As Mayor,” Bartell asserts, “I will be interested in a public engagement strategy for governance that provides the city with the same access to state government resources as counties and state legislative districts.”
The divisive rhetoric of the two major parties has ensured that very little progress has been made in addressing the issues of most importance to the citizens of Atlanta: jobs, crime, and economic development.
Bartell’s vision of a public engagement strategy for governance gives neighborhood, community, faith, and small business leaders the same access to public policy as lobbyists, special interest groups, and corporations.
“The best opportunity in the nation,” Bartell states, “for independents to impact governance is in the city of Atlanta, the state of Georgia, and the Southeast region of the United States of America.”
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For Immediate Release
November 9, 2011
Bartell Marks First Year of Mayoral Candidacy
Public Policy Leadership Record Highlights Accomplishments
ATLANTA -- Today marks one year to the day that Public Policy Leader Al Bartell held a press conference at the Georgia State Capitol to communicate his vision for being Mayor of Atlanta. His first year of mayoral candidacy establishes a public policy leadership record that matches his words that day at the Capitol .
As cited in his first campaign press release (www.bartellformayor.com/News.html), "the future Bartell administration's strategy to have equity in governance for Atlanta's citizens, by building an unprecedented partnership between Georgia's state government and Atlanta's city government" was demonstrated by the candidate himself throughout the year. Bartell worked with public policy leaders in both the Georgia General Assembly as well as the Atlanta City Council. He made public remarks often -- and was openly acknowledged for them -- on both the floor of the Georgia State Senate and Atlanta City Council Chambers.
His public remarks drew several Senators' inquiry during August's special legislative session, as Bartell communicated the adverse impact of state redistricting. Similarly, Atlanta City Council members made favorable comments to Bartell's public remarks last May about remedies to the lack of community participation in Atlanta's City budget process.
Bartell followed through on his "vision of a public engagement strategy for governance [that] gives neighborhood, community, faith, and small business leaders [ncfsl's] the same access to public policy as lobbyists, special interest groups, and corporations”.
He listened to and engaged in public policy discussions the voices of “ncfsl’s” in neighborhood planning units (NPU's), civil rights organizations, and small business sectors.
That included international groups. Most recently, he supported the Atlanta Sierra Leone Diaspora community during Sierra Leone President Dr. Ernest Bai Koroma's September visit to Atlanta.
He supported the engagement strategies of individual leaders and groups out of their requests for his public policy involvement.
His presence at Woodruff Park, and other meeting areas of the Occupy Atlanta movement, carried with it his own personal dialogue of support and participation. On October 26, 2011, after the first Occupy arrests in Atlanta, Bartell issued a public statement on the Occupy Wall Street/Atlanta movement as Candidate for Mayor of Atlanta.
His public statement as a Mayoral Candidate landed him local television coverage and other prominent/national media coverage, such as Georgia Politico, PeachPundit, PoliticalVise,
ThinkProgress, Creative Loafing's FreshLoaf, Regator, and Portland's Independent Media (IndyMedia). His website benefitted as well, reaching nearly 4, 000 visits for its first year total.
Poised to begin a citywide public engagement strategy, Bartell’s second year of candidacy is on a course to produce public policy leadership throughout the metro Atlanta area, the state of Georgia, and the Southeast region of the United States.
###
Mayoral Candidate Bartell Calls for Immediate Release of Occupy Atlanta Protesters
ATLANTA -- The following public statement is being released by Mayoral Candidate Al Bartell regarding the Occupy Atlanta situation as of 1:00pm, Wednesday, Oct. 26, 2011:
"The City of Atlanta's policy on the right for public assembly has withstood the test of time, even to the end of the twentieth century. At midnight last night, Atlanta's Mayor destroyed the cornerstone of the American Constitution and threw this city back in time to an era of violence against community.
I am calling for the immediate release of the Occupy Atlanta protesters and to re-establish the integrity of Atlanta's public policy on the right for public assembly. "
###
REED VS. BARTELL: CONTEST FOR MAYOR BEGINS
GA Stand-Up "Report Card" Sessions Put Mayoral Candidate Bartell, Mayor Reed on Record
Friday, Oct. 21, 2011: ATLANTA -- Georgia Stand-Up Alliance’s back-to-back "Report Card" sessions in September and October have resulted in setting the stage for impacting the 2013 mayoral election cycle. At the Georgia Stand-Up Alliance’s September “Report Card” session, Public Policy Leader Al Bartell introduced himself as a Candidate for Mayor, and communicated a powerful question about Mayor Kasim Reed’s relationship to community input. Today, at Georgia Stand-Up Alliance’s October “Report Card” session, Mayor Reed spent an hour defending his relationship to community input.
Georgia Stand-Up’s Executive Director Deborah Scott asked the Rev. Dr. Richard Cobble, President of the Civil Rights renowned Concerned Black Clergy, to speak to a filled IBEW auditorium before bringing Mayor Reed up to answer his “Report Card” questions. Alluding to corporate and business concerns overriding the people’s concerns, and receiving strong applause from the Stand-Up audience, Cobble warned that any mayor who would be swayed by corporate concerns over the city’s community concerns should not be kept in office.
Mayoral Candidate Bartell, a well-known public engagement proponent down at City Hall, and Chairman of the Equity in Governance Initiative, received a similar positive response last month from Stand-Up’s community leaders. He questioned a Board of Education candidate as to whether it was an equity in governance issue for a Mayor to bring in the state’s Governor to deal with a city’s Board of Education matters, especially if it overrode the city’s community input.
Judging from the strong signal sent today at Georgia Stand-Up, the stage is now set for the city’s neighborhood, community, faith, and small business leaders to play an unprecedented power-brokering role in selecting Atlanta’s next mayor. And, with over 200 neighborhood associations, 75 communities of interest, 50 faith-based organizations, and 25 small business corridors in the city, that leadership is not to be under-estimated.
###
http://gapolitico.com/en/2011/10/27/mayoral-candidate-bartell-calls-for-
immediate-release-of-occupy-atlanta-protesters/
http://www.peachpundit.com/2011/10/27/reeds-opponent-rips-him-for-occupyatlanta-arrests/
http://thinkprogress.org/special/2011/10/27/354895/atlanta-has-widest-gap-between-rich-and-poor/
http://clatl.com/freshloaf/archives/2011/10/07/photo-of-the-day-another-war-anniversary
http://politicalvise.com/ga
http://regator.com/p/253646880/reeds_opponent_rips_him_for_occupyatlanta_arrests/
http://portland.indymedia.org/en/2011/10/411711.shtml
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