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Bill Torpy: Mayor dumps department heads, won't say why
Days after firing two top city officials, Mayor Reed holds forth during an hourlong press conference in which he talked about everything except the firings. BOB ANDRES / BANDRES@AJC.COM
By Bill Torpy
May 26, 2016When the airport's manager and watershed commissioner get cut loose on the same afternoon, something's up.
There is, Mayor Kasim Reed admitted to a room full of reporters. But he’s not going to say what.
Let's just talk about the future, the mayor said in an hour-long press conference that veered from philosophy to metrics to slights he has felt through the years. In short, it was Vintage Kasim.
(In a mayoral tweet, meanwhile, Reed dismissed -- or just dissed -- the latest Bill Torpy column as "Typical Torpy." Not hard to read Reed on that one. Take a read on Torpy's take.)
About the Author
Bill Torpy, who writes about metro Atlanta for The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, joined the newspaper in 1990.
