{"id":1516844,"date":"2022-06-15T09:05:10","date_gmt":"2022-06-15T13:05:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1516844"},"modified":"2022-06-15T09:06:04","modified_gmt":"2022-06-15T13:06:04","slug":"biden-taps-former-atlanta-mayor-for-top-aide-position","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/biden-taps-former-atlanta-mayor-for-top-aide-position\/","title":{"rendered":"Biden Taps Former Atlanta Mayor For Top Aide Position"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">18<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fbiden-taps-former-atlanta-mayor-for-top-aide-position%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1516844&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>President Joe Biden is bringing on former Atlanta Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms to serve as director of the White House Office of Public Engagement, according to Axios.<\/p>\n<p>Bottoms is replacing Cedric Richmond, one of Biden\u2019s top aides who <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2022\/04\/25\/us\/politics\/cedric-richmond-biden-white-house.html\">left<\/a> the White House in May. She\u2019s reportedly promised to serve through the midterm elections, a senior administration official told <a href=\"https:\/\/www.axios.com\/2022\/06\/15\/keisha-lance-bottoms-biden-cedric-richmond\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Axios<\/a>. A White House official <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/keisha-lance-bottoms-to-join-biden-administration-white-house-official-says\/\">confirmed<\/a> the news to CBS News.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI know what it\u2019s like to lead through difficult times and how important it is to have strong leaders around you to navigate,\u201d Bottoms told Axios in an interview. \u201cWe\u2019ve been through some very challenging times, especially for African Americans in this country.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThose challenges are still very fresh and real to me. And I live it every day: I live it as a black woman, I live it as a mother of four children, and I know where those challenges are, but I also know where the opportunities are,\u201d she added.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_7451114\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\">\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-7451114\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">FILE PHOTO: U.S. President-elect Joe Biden speaks with Atlanta Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms as he campaigns for Georgia Democratic U.S. Senate candidates Rev. Raphael Warnock and Jon Ossoff ahead of their Jan. 5 runoff elections, at a drive-in campaign rally at Pullman Yard in Atlanta, Georgia, U.S., December 15, 2020. REUTERS\/Mike Segar\/File Photo<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Bottoms <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/05\/07\/atlanta-mayor-keisha-lance-bottoms-reelection\/\">announced<\/a> in May 2021 that she would not seek re-election as <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/03\/19\/additional-two-years-atlanta-mayor-keisha-lance-bottoms-symbolism-hate-crime-charges-important-georgia-shooting\/\">Atlanta\u2019s<\/a> mayor. She noted in her announcement that \u201cthe last three years have not been at all what I would have scripted for our city,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2020\/06\/09\/atlanta-mayor-keisha-bottoms-safe-police\/\">citing<\/a> \u201ca pandemic, a social justice movement\u201d and \u201ca madman in the White House,\u201d referring to former President Donald Trump.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is abundantly clear to me today that it is time to pass the baton on to someone else,\u201d Bottoms <a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2021\/05\/07\/994501740\/keisha-lance-bottoms-wont-run-for-reelection-as-atlanta-mayor\">said<\/a> at the time. <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/06\/07\/family-secoriea-turner-sue-atlanta-mayor-keisha-bottoms-negligence-shooting-wendys\/\">(RELATED:\u00a0Family Of 8-Year-Old Girl Fatally Shot In Atlanta Amid Protests Sues City, Mayor And Other Officials)<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The former Atlanta mayor faced criticism throughout the COVID-19 pandemic over the city\u2019s steep rise in crime. According to The New York Times, Atlanta <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2021\/05\/07\/us\/covid-crime-keisha-lance-bottoms.html\">saw<\/a> a 58% increase in homicides in 2020 under her watch \u2013 and Bottoms appeared unable to fix the problem.<\/p>\n<p>At one point, Bottoms blamed the rise in crime in Atlanta on statehouse Republicans. She told MSNBC\u2019s Stephanie Ruhle in June 2021 that soft gun laws and Republican Gov. Brian Kemp\u2019s decision to tone down COVID-19 lockdown restrictions were partially to blame, The New York Post <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2021\/06\/19\/keisha-lance-bottoms-blames-crime-increase-on-gop-reopening-plan-access-to-guns\/\">wrote<\/a> at the time.<\/p>\n<p>In her new role at the White House, Bottoms will have more direct access to Biden as well as some of the most important administration meetings, Axios noted.<\/p>\n<p>The former Atlanta mayor was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/biden-narrows-vp-atlanta-mayor-four-black-women-in-race-2020-6\">reportedly<\/a> on Biden\u2019s short list of vice presidential candidates and is also <a href=\"https:\/\/www.axios.com\/2020\/12\/19\/keisha-lance-bottoms-joe-biden-sba\">rumored<\/a> to have declined a past offer to serve under Biden as head of the Small Business Administration.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Joe Biden is bringing on former Atlanta Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms to serve as director of the White House Office of Public Engagement, according to Axios.Bottoms is replacing Cedric<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":125,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1516844","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1516844","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/125"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1516844"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1516844\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1516844"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1516844"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1516844"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}