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Green Gloria Tinubu: Too liberal to be Atlanta mayor?

Gloria Tinubu’s Green Party campaigns for Atlanta mayor left a bad impression – despite Atlanta being one of the most liberal cities in America.

To: Concerned 7th District Voters
From: SCGOP Research

We already know that Gloria Tinubu, the South Carolina Democratic Party’s nominee in the new 7th Congressional District, is a Radical Union Organizer and Big Labor’s Best Friend.

What else does Gloria Tinubu have to hide? Could it be her ties to the Green Party – a party so radical and far left of the Democratic Party that it makes most Democrats seem conservative?

The Georgia Green Party’s 2001 Platform (link) shows exactly how radical the party and “Green” Gloria Tinubu truly are. Their leftist policy goals include declaring “peace” in the war on drugs, opposing faith-based initiatives, shutting down nuclear power plants and replacing them with solar plants, opposing JROTC programs in schools, abolishing the CIA, creating a “peace force” and a “peace tax” fund, closing the School of the Americas (which the Greens call the “School of Assassins”), cutting 50% or more of the U.S. military’s budget, and eliminating the sales tax and implementing a “progressive” tax policy.

Gloria Tinubu unsuccessfully ran for mayor of Atlanta in 1997 and 2001 as the Green Party candidate. (Source: GA Green Party, 5/21/01)

The Green Party was enthusiastic about her bid. Hugh Esco, the Georgia Green Party Secretary and a Tinubu campaign worker in 1997, said in 2001:

“We intend to bring the momentum of the (Ralph) Nader campaign into our work to elect Gloria the next Mayor of Atlanta.” (Source: GA Green Party, 5/21/01)

Tinubu was proud to receive the Green’s endorsement:

“I’m excited by this opportunity to build a working democracy which serves the working people of Atlanta.” (GA Green Party, 9/14/01)

Too liberal to be Atlanta mayor?

Meanwhile, Tinubu’s Green Party campaigns for Atlanta mayor left a bad impression – despite Atlanta being one of the most liberal cities in America.

“The absolutely critical business of adhering to a fund-raising plan…that didn’t happen,” says political consultant Vicki McLennan, who worked on but left Bromell-Tinubu’s campaign, frustrated, late last year. “Creating a strategy and sticking to a strategy, that didn’t happen. It was more a feel-good kind of thing: ‘I’m of the people, and that makes me a bankable candidate.’ ”

“Meanwhile, some Atlanta business leaders question whether Bromell-Tinubu could build the coalitions necessary to make Atlanta work. Some also suggest she’s too liberal to be mayor.” (Source: AJC “Meet the Candidates,” 10/21/01)

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