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Updated at 4:08 p.m. Wednesday
Former Atlanta Mayor Kasim Reed has filed paperwork to run again for the city’s top job in the upcoming 2021 election.
Reed served two terms in City Hall until 2018, but his legacy has been mired in an ongoing federal corruption investigation that has implicated his former chief procurement officer and a deputy chief of staff.
Reed, who also served in both the state House and state Senate, has maintained his own innocence.
Reed joins an already crowded field of mayoral candidates, including City Council President Felicia Moore and City Councilmen Andre Dickens and Antonio Brown. Five of them attended a candidate forum Tuesday.
Former Atlanta mayor Kasim Reed files paperwork to join 2021 mayoral race
Reed served as mayor of Atlanta from 2010 to 2018
Kasim Reed, reportedly wants his job back.
Reed, who served as mayor from 2010 to 2018, submitted paperwork on Wednesday to join the mayoral race. Reed’s two terms as mayor were controversial, but he addressed the accusations during a recent sitdown. During a recent interview with
WSBTV, he spoke on the Federal case he is linked to and what he thinks Atlanta needs.
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“I felt like there are things happening in Atlanta that I’d never seen in my life, and I’ve been here all my life. So that’s what caused me to start talking about it,” Reed said in regards to the uptick in crime in the city.