Keisha Lance Bottoms is the 60th mayor of Atlanta, Georgia. She was elected mayor in 2017. Bottoms’ family can be traced back five generations to a freedman from a plantation near Savannah, Georgia, who may have served in the state legislature during Reconstruction.
About Keisha Lance Bottoms in brief
Keisha Lance Bottoms is the 60th mayor of Atlanta, Georgia. She was elected mayor in 2017. Before becoming mayor, she was a member of the Atlanta City Council, representing part of Southwest Atlanta. Bottoms’ family can be traced back five generations to a freedman from a plantation near Savannah, Georgia, who may have served in the state legislature during Reconstruction. In November, Bottoms was named a candidate for United States Secretary of Housing and Urban Development in the Biden Administration. In March 2020, Politico reported her as a possible vice-presidential pick for Biden. In June, CNN reported that she was among his top four choices, along with Representative Val Demings and Senators Kamala Harris and Elizabeth Warren.
In October 2017, she voluntarily returned USD 25,700 in campaign contributions she had received from PRAD Group, an engineering contractor whose office had been raided by the Federal Bureau of Investigation the previous month. In 2018, she signed an executive order forbidding the city jail to hold ICE detainees. In July 2019, Bottom said, \”Our city does not support ICE. We closed our detention center to ICE detainees, and we would not pick up people on an immigration violation”
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