Now that former Atlanta mayoral candidate Mary Norwood has expended precious state resources on a recall and ballots investigation and has exhausted all of her political options, Norwood, an alleged Democrat, can quietly return to her political roots and safe asylum:
The Republican Party.
Norwood calls herself a left-leaning progressive, yet her actions run counter to the hollow rhetoric she spewed in healthy quantities on the campaign trail. A CBS Atlanta fact check showed unequivocally that Norwood’s voting record at the Secretary of State’s office. Since 1990, Norwood chose the Republican ballot in primaries 12 times and chose the Democratic ballot six times, mostly in recent years.
“I did go to a Republican convention once, and I disliked it so much, I have never been to another one for either party,” Norwood tried to explain away her attendance, as if her questioners had horns growing out their middle of their heads.
There is no reason why any serious Democratic operative would ever even consider crossing enemy lines to attend the Georgia Republican Convention while spurning their own party’s convention. That treasonous act alone should have been sufficient reason to disqualify her candidacy among the electorate. She said she went to the GOP affair to peddle her business products, but she could have done the same at the Democratic convention. It just didn’t add up.
Secondly, why would you not even attend your own Georgia Democratic Convention?
Another thing that made me very uncomfortable with Norwood’s ingenuous candidacy was the frequency by which she said she was working issues that affected blacks and whites, north and south. If Norwood was really working on behalf of all denizens, it would have been unnecessary for her to proclaim it so vehemently and vociferously, for her actions would have spoken so loudly that we would not have been able to hear her words.
On second look, I discerned how Norwood slickly tried to play the “race card” by insinuating in commercials that Reed was trying to divide the city by race, thereby inflaming the passions of the predominantly white north side voting districts, which she won quite convincingly. Thankfully, her duplicitous ways did not work well enough for her take the reigns of City Hall.
In the end, the only thing Norwood did honestly was to quickly and quietly retreat into the background where her homogeneous fan base awaits with open arms.
–terry shropshire
