Former Atlanta Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms Joins CNN As A Political Commentator

Keisha Lance Bottoms has chosen her subsequent profession step after serving as mayor of Atlanta for one time period. Information broke in Might 2021 that Keisha wouldn’t be looking for reelection in 2022. However there wasn’t a lot readability on the place her profession would go subsequent. Then, early Monday, she addressed her forthcoming position for the primary time since her time period ended early January.

“I’m thrilled to formally announce that I’ve joined CNN as a Political Commentator,” Keisha tweeted. “As a @FAMU_1887 pupil, I utilized for the coveted VJ program at @CNN and didn’t get in. To now be a part of the staff almost 30 yrs later is a reminder {that a} dream deferred is rarely a dream denied.”

You could bear in mind Keisha made historical past when she secured her position as Atlanta mayor. She was solely the second Black girl to guide within the place and the “solely mayor to have served in all three branches of presidency.” These roles included a choose and Metropolis Council member.

Keisha’s resolution to not re-run for mayor got here after she “respectfully declined” a political resume builder. President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris supplied Keisha a possibility to hitch their cupboard. She handed on it.

The choice additionally got here after a rollercoaster first time period. Keisha confronted loads obstacles from a city-targeted cyber assault in 2018 to a world pandemic and a Georgia governor who opposed her security measures with a lawsuit. Then, in Might 2020, a Minneapolis police officer murdered George Floyd and racial injustice protests additionally reached Keisha’s metropolis. Not even a month later, an Atlanta police officer shot and killed Rayshard Brooks.

Keisha spoke to ‘Elle’ journal about her mayoral expertise in a printed Jan. 10 article.

“I knew I might do the job for an additional 4 years. However at what value? Proper after I introduced I wouldn’t run, a number of folks instructed me my voice sounded totally different,” Keisha stated. “That was scary—that there was a lightness in my voice they might already hear. Individuals instructed me I used to be smiling extra; I didn’t know that I hadn’t been.”

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