AJC: Reed, Borders Split Big Developer Support
Another gem, this time in the AJC’s business section. Lisa Borders and Kasim Reed are splitting big developer support. In terms of funding, Mary Norwood appears to be the grassroots, independent candidate, which is ironic given her supportfrom homeowners (a grassroots campaign of property owners?).
AJC: “Shailendra Group CEO Shai Shailendra and executives from Carter and H.J. Russell & Co. are backing state Sen. Kasim Reed (D-Atlanta). Tad Leithead, Cousins Properties’ senior vice president for development, and Matt Gove, Cousins’ ex-marketing and communications vice president, are helping Lisa Borders…
“She is president of the Grady Foundation, which raises money for Grady Health System. Gove is the health system’s senior vice president for marketing and strategic planning. His former boss, Cousins CEO Tom Bell, is on the Grady Memorial Hospital board.
“Reed is a partner at the Holland & Knight law firm. Carter partners Bob Peterson, Jim Shelton, Trent Germano and Scott Taylor have been introducing Reed to the business community.”
Borders and Reed were quoted in the AJC, apparently trying to out-do each other:
AJC: “The real estate development community is to Atlanta what the financial services industry is to New York,” Reed said at a Midtown Starbucks one recent morning.
Borders, in a phone conversation, said almost the same thing: “Development is to Atlanta what cars are to Detroit and entertainment is to L.A.”