“I’ve said before, my real competitors in this race are never one of the other 13 ‘candidates,'” Dickens said in his victory speech late Tuesday. “My opponents are homelessness, hopelessness, unemployment, racism, poverty, violence. My opponent has been around for 50, 100, 2,000 years. . . . My opponents claim all of us, and that’s what we’re fighting against.”
https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/atlanta-mayor-race-results/2021/11/30/189cda42-51ee-11ec-8927-c396fa861a71_story.html?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=wp_national City Councilmember Andre Dickens wins Atlanta mayoral race