This fight between Atlanta Mayor Kasim Reed and the sacked general manager of Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport isn't getting any friendlier.
You know that Miguel Southwell, fired by Reed last month for unspecified reasons, has
Southwell has suggested that the mayor's office wanted more control over contracts to be awarded during an upcoming wave of construction and remodeling projects.
On Thursday, in front of Aaron Diamant and a Channel 2 Action News camera, the mayor unloaded on his former employee. From the TV station's website:
"The fact of the matter is this. Miguel Southwell is fortunate that I don't destroy his career," Reed said. "What I've been trying to do was to allow him to leave with dignity."
Reed wouldn't give up any goods, but proclaimed Southwell would lose any lawsuit.
"Why are all of these claims being made now that he's unemployed? If he was a person who was honorable and had the level of dignity that a leader in my department has, if he felt these things, he should have resigned or said something about it," Reed said.
Watch it here:
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The New York Times reports that millions more white, older working-class voters went to the polls in 2012 presidential election than exit polls have indicated, raising the possibility that Donald Trump has access to more November support than many once thought. But if that's so, we would also need to rethink the current president's appeal among white voters:
The data implies that Mr. Obama was not as weak among white voters as typically believed. He fared better than his predecessors among white voters outside the South. Demographic shifts weren't so important: He would have been re-elected even with an electorate as old and white as it was in 2004. Latino voters did not put Mr. Obama over the top, as many argued in the days after Mr. Obama's re-election. He would have won even if he had done as poorly among Latino voters as John Kerry.
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Apparently, mentioning your support for Donald Trump on a first date can reduce your chances of a second one. From a New York Post article on the Trump dating site started by Republican David Goss:
More than 500 Trump fans have joined since TrumpSingles went live in May. Goss says most of his users are from New York City, Los Angeles and Washington, DC. Like with most online dating services, users can search matches by age, location and interests. While it's free to sign up, users can only send one message a day unless they cough up a $4.95 monthly subscription.
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Donald Trump's Dunwoody-based minority guru is headed to Washington. Bruce LeVell, the leader of the National Diversity Coalition for Trump, plans to meet with the Republican National Committee this summer to work up strategies to help the candidate appeal to minorities. Here's more from Time magazine:
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