A few days
before the Georgia primary, influential Atlanta Mayor Kasim Reed
published a column on CNN.com praising Hillary Clinton and ripping
her opponent, Bernie Sanders. Reed attacked Sanders as being out of
step with Democrats on gun policy, and accused him of elevating a
“one-issue platform” that ignores the plight of the “single
mother riding two buses to her second job.”
But emails
released from Reed’s office indicate that the column, which
pilloried Sanders as out of touch with the poor, was primarily
written by a corporate lobbyist, and was edited by Correct the
Record, one of several pro-Clinton Super PACs.
Anne Torres,
the mayor’s director of communications, told The Intercept this
week that the column was not written by the mayor, but by Tharon
Johnson, a former Reed adviser who now works as a lobbyist for
UnitedHealth, Honda, and MGM Resorts, among other clients. The
column’s revisions by staffers from Correct the Record are
documented in the emails.
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