Brionte McCorkle

Brionte McCorkle

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Brionte McCorkle was a candidate for District 11 representative on the Atlanta City Council in Georgia. McCorkle was defeated in the general election on November 7, 2017.

Elections

2017

See also: Municipal elections in Atlanta, Georgia (2017)

The city of Atlanta, Georgia, held a general election for mayor, city council president, three at large council members, 13 by district council members, and two city judges on November 7, 2017. The following candidates ran in the general election for District 11 seat on the city council.

Atlanta City Council District 11, General Election, 2017
Candidate	Vote %	Votes
Harold Hardnett	18.61%	1,455
Marci Collier Overstreet	15.99%	1,250
Debra Harris	14.82%	1,159
Brionte McCorkle	13.64%	1,066
LaTarsha Holden	10.62%	830
Georgianne Thomas	10.12%	791
Anthony Johnson	9.12%	713
Edith Ladipo	7.09%	554
Total Votes		7,818
Source: Fulton County, Georgia, "November 7, 2017 Municipal General and Special Elections," accessed November 7, 2017 These election results are unofficial and will be updated after official vote totals are made available.

Campaign themes

2017

McCorkle's campaign website included the following themes for 2017:

“	Affordable Housing In 2014 and 2015, the Brookings Institution named Atlanta as the city with the highest income inequality in America. Yet, Since 2012 almost 100% of everything built in the city is considered luxury development. We must expand the Inclusionary Zoning ordinance passed earlier this year to include people making less than $40,000, and require it for any developer taking incentives from the city. We can also commit to issuing the Housing Opportunity Bond each year to provide an ongoing source of funding for affordable housing. Ensuring that all people can afford to live in our city and take part in its continued success helps to diminish the income gap, deconcentrate poverty, and reduce traffic congestion. Blight & Code Enforcement There are thousands of abandoned homes and buildings in Atlanta. Our Code Enforcement department needs more researchers to effectively address this issue. I support the ideas put forth in this Change.org petition, asking for the budget that Code Enforcement receives to be much larger than the $2 million that was set aside in last year’s budget.</>> We should also focus on absentee commercial and residential developers that buy and sit on lots until the time is right to flip and make a profit. The current Code Enforcement process is targeting seniors and low-income people who have to choose between keeping their lights on or fixing a broken gutter. I will explore a blight tax similar to Cobb County’s proposed “Community Redevelopment Tax Incentive Program”. Crime & Public Safety The Atlanta Police Department has increased its force to 2,000 officers by hiring an additional 800 police officers over the last several years. While I know we need a strong police presence to deter crime, we must be cautious about over policing our communities. We should set a standard that preventing violent crime should be our first priority. That said, I will support efforts to stop the loss of talented officers to other cities and counties in the region. That means supporting more competitive salaries, first-rate equipment, and opportunities for advancement. I also believe it is unacceptable that in the civil rights capital of the world, we are losing a generation of young people of color to arrests for possession of marijuana. In 2016, 93 percent of Atlanta’s marijuana possession arrests were African-Americans. It has become the entry point to the revolving door of the prison pipeline that ruins not only one life, but entire generations of families. I support changing the way we police around marijuana. When we lock up a low-level repeat offenders it makes everyone less safe, because we’re taking our eyes off what really matters. I am excited about expanding the new Atlanta/Fulton County Pre-Arrest Diversion program. I also support working with Fulton and DeKalb Counties to create programs to reduce recidivism. I commit to working with the county and state to reform our juvenile system to keep repeat, violent offenders off the streets.	”
—Brionte McCorkle (2017)

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Atlanta, Georgia	Georgia	Municipal government	Other local coverage

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