Nathan Clubb
Nathan Clubb ran for election to the Atlanta City Council to represent District 1 in Georgia. He lost in the general runoff election on November 30, 2021.
Clubb completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2021. Click here to read the survey answers.
Clubb was also a Democratic candidate for District 76 of the Iowa House of Representatives in the November 2, 2010, state legislative elections.
Biography
Nathan Clubb earned a bachelor’s degree from Grinnell College in 2010 and a graduate degree from American University in 2015. His career experience includes working as a state auditor. As of 2021, Clubb was the chair of the NPU-W Bylaws Committee. He was an NPU-W elected representative from 2018 to 2021 and a member of the National Legislative Program Evaluation Society from 2015 to 2021.[1]
Elections
2021
See also: City elections in Atlanta, Georgia (2021)
General runoff election
General runoff election for Atlanta City Council District 1
Jason Winston defeated Nathan Clubb in the general runoff election for Atlanta City Council District 1 on November 30, 2021.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ |  | Jason Winston (Nonpartisan)  | 52.4 | 3,089 |
 | Nathan Clubb (Nonpartisan) | 47.6 | 2,803 | |
| Total votes: 5,892 | |||
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General election
General election for Atlanta City Council District 1
The following candidates ran in the general election for Atlanta City Council District 1 on November 2, 2021.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | | Jason Winston (Nonpartisan) | 29.4 | 1,971 |
| ✔ | | Nathan Clubb (Nonpartisan) | 27.5 | 1,844 |
| Russell Hopson (Nonpartisan) | 15.3 | 1,023 | ||
 | Kelly-Jeanne Lee (Nonpartisan) | 10.5 | 702 | |
 | Clarence Blalock (Nonpartisan) | 10.1 | 676 | |
| Victor Tate (Nonpartisan) | 7.2 | 485 | ||
| Total votes: 6,701 | |||
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2010
Clubb was defeated by Betty DeBoef (D) in the November 2 general election.[2]
| Iowa House of Representatives, District 76 General Election (2010) | ||||
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| Candidates | Votes | |||
 Betty DeBoef (R)
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7,218 | |||
| Nathan Clubb (D) | 3,721 | |||
Campaign themes
2021
Ballotpedia survey responses
See also: Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection
Nathan Clubb completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2021. The survey questions appear in bold and are followed by Clubb's responses. Candidates are asked three required questions for this survey, but they may answer additional optional questions as well.
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I've done the work as president of SAND, representing seven diverse communities in southeast Atlanta, including working the City and the BeltLine to get a protected path on Bill Kennedy Way connecting neighborhoods north and south of I-20, working with our state legislators and GDOT to move safety improvements along on Moreland Avenue, and working with local developers on the delivery of affordable housing.
I'm also a state auditor, which makes me uniquely qualified to dig into the root causes of our challenges, including delivery of basic services, to understand how our government finances work, to provide increased accountability and transparency in government and ensure it's responsive to the residents of District 1.
- We need a comprehensive approach to public safety that recognizes the need for community policing and a laser focus on violent crime, while increasing support for diversion programs, building safe streets, expanding youth opportunities, and providing supportive housing.
- Atlanta’s streets are congested and unsafe for pedestrians, cyclists and drivers. I have a transportation plan that recognizes the need to invest in and redesign our infrastructure, including basics like sidewalks, complete streets designed for all users, and frequent transit in dedicated lanes.
- Atlantans are increasingly rent burdened which has pushed lower income Atlantans away from neighborhoods with good transit and jobs, exacerbating the existing inequities. There is no panacea for our affordable housing crisis but we can establish a dedicated funding source to build and preserve affordable housing.
We need to ensure we have the level of staffing necessary and policies in place for true community policing to provide presence and rebuild trust with communities. We also need to expand the Policing Alternatives and Diversion (PAD) program to 24/7 and ensure that we are working with partners, including Fulton County, to provide sufficient behavioral health services to those being diverted. We also need to ensure we have policies for APD for when they should refer individuals to PAD instead of making an arrest. We need to close the Atlanta City Detention Center as a jail and seek to leverage it instead as a reentry center where wrap-around services, from job training, to counseling, to housing, can be provided. We need to reduce crimes committed by youth through working in collaboration with Atlanta Public Schools and our Parks and Recreation department to ensure we have sufficient youth activities, from sports leagues to employment opportunities. Successful reform will require collaborating with Fulton County and State as it relates to mental and behavioral health, the County in terms of reducing the jail population through diversion and reductions in recidivism, and the judicial system to ensure solutions are actually actionable. We also need to partner with the private sector on everything from obtaining needed services, to expanding employment opportunities, to funding youth activities.
We need to improve our buses, because I believe better buses make for better cities. This includes building out a network of bus only lanes with signal prioritization. This is a relatively low-cost option to dramatically improve our bus network and allow Atlantans to use public transit to quickly move around the City, including areas lacking MARTA heavy rail. Then improve frequency on those routes. The MARTA bus network redesign will be a great opportunity to achieve this.
We also need true Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) to provide cross-town connections. We have our first opportunity, with the Summerhill BRT line right here in District 1 to show that this can be a successful transit option for Atlanta but we need to ensure it’s executed well and truly has a dedicated right of way to move Atlantans quickly around Atlanta.
We need to get a good grasp of the capacity and life span of each of these systems, map it out, prioritize it, and determine whether we actually have the financial capacity with our current revenue streams to support the necessary upgrades and maintenance of each of these.
I'm also a state auditor, which makes me uniquely qualified to dig into the root causes of our challenges, including delivery of basic services.......to understand how our government finances work....to provide increased accountability and transparency in government and ensure it's responsive to the residents of District 1.
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See also
2021 Elections
External links
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Footnotes
- ↑ Information submitted to Ballotpedia through the Candidate Connection survey on September 30, 2021
- ↑ Iowa Secretary of State, "Official 2010 General election results," accessed October 1, 2014
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