Keisha Lance Bottoms Quits- Keisha Lance Bottoms Has Decided to Retire. Who Can Blame Her, After All?

By Aarush Sharma On Jun 15, 2022

Keisha Lance Bottoms (born January 18, 1970) is an American politician and lawyer who served as Atlanta’s 60th mayor from 2018 to 2022. In 2017, she was elected mayor. She was a member of the Atlanta City Council before becoming mayor, representing a section of Southwest Atlanta.

Bottoms were nominated by President Joe Biden to serve as the DNC’s vice chair of civic engagement and voter protection from 2021 to 2025. Bottoms did not seek re-election to his second term as mayor.

Keisha Lance Bottoms Has Withdrawn from The Atlanta Mayoral Election but Has Not Ruled out A Future in Politics

Keisha Lance Bottoms said Friday morning that she would not seek re-election to a second term as mayor of Atlanta, citing the turbulent last four years as a reason.

In a conversation originally published by the Atlanta Journal-Constitution on Thursday evening, Bottoms informed workers and allies of her decision to drop out of the campaign. Bottoms choked back tears during a news conference at Atlanta City Hall on Friday, calling her stint as mayor her “biggest honor.”

“Just as it was crystal clear to me almost five years ago that I should run for mayor of Atlanta, it is crystal plain to me today that it is time to pass the torch on to someone else,” Bottoms told reporters.

The mayor quickly debunked conjecture that her decision was influenced by a family problem, an administrative scandal, or a probable move to work for Walgreens, whose CEO, Rosalind Brewer, is a friend of the Bottoms family.

In her news conference and a letter to the City of Atlanta that was put online late Thursday evening, Bottoms did not rule out future political ambitions. She did not, however, disclose any specifics. “While I am unsure of what the future contains, I am confident that my next season will be filled with passion and purpose,” she wrote.

In recent years, Georgia has shifted significantly in favor of Democrats, culminating in President Joe Biden’s victory in November and now-Senators Jon Ossoff and Raphael Warnock’s victories in January runoff elections, giving Democrats control of the Senate. However, those tight victories have limited the state’s prospects for higher office.

Next year, Warnock will run for a full term, while Ossoff will not be on the ballot again until 2026. Former state House minority leader and gubernatorial candidate Stacey Abrams are largely anticipated to run for governor in 2022.

Keisha Lance Bottoms Has Decided to Retire. Who Can Blame Her, After All?

Atlanta was instructed to return home. Last May, when the city’s neck was wrapped around its neck like a snake, Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms held a press conference at 9 p.m. on a Friday night, telling irate protestors at CNN Center — and all around Atlanta — to go home.

Her voice was brimming with rage, not only as a mother but as a mother of four Black children in the metropolis, as she put it. “This isn’t a sit-in. This is not in keeping with Martin Luther King Jr.’s spirit. “This is a shambles,” she declared. “Go home if you care about this city.”

The protesters had congregated at the state Capitol first to protest George Floyd’s death at the hands of Minneapolis cops. Atlantans, like people all throughout the country, marched, screamed, grieved, and shouted out in agony for simply the most recent Black man who died in police custody.

However, a protest at CNN Center devolved into a riot. At least one police car was smashed and burned. The famed landmark’s windows shattered and then crumbled. The CNN sign, a symbol of the city’s global reach, was covered with graffiti and local wrath.

Bottoms stated, “You are disgracing this city, you are disgracing George Floyd’s life, and you are disgracing the lives of every other person who has been killed in this country.” “As a city, we are better than this.” As a country, we are capable of much more.”

Atlanta Was Told to Return Home by Keisha Lance Bottoms

Her statements didn’t stop the entire night’s violence. By the morning, scores of establishments had been broken into between downtown Atlanta and Buckhead, prompting the deployment of National Guard troops to help police.

Her remarks, on the other hand, encouraged folks to do better because Atlanta is more than that.

We owe Bottoms a debt of gratitude if she never did another thing in the office, not just for defusing the violence at the time, but for stopping Atlanta from exploding once more.

Our children, like the children who came before them, will be able to grow up in a city that is proud of the fact that it did not kill itself when it could have.

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