{"id":2700669,"date":"2026-11-06T20:32:03","date_gmt":"2026-11-07T01:32:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/georgia-governor-elect-keisha-lance-bottoms-names-madea-filmmaker-tyler-perry-to-her-transition-team\/"},"modified":"2026-11-06T20:35:00","modified_gmt":"2026-11-07T01:35:00","slug":"georgia-governor-elect-keisha-lance-bottoms-names-madea-filmmaker-tyler-perry-to-her-transition-team","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/georgia-governor-elect-keisha-lance-bottoms-names-madea-filmmaker-tyler-perry-to-her-transition-team\/","title":{"rendered":"Georgia Governor-Elect Keisha Lance Bottoms Names &#8216;Madea&#8217; Filmmaker Tyler Perry to Her Transition Team"},"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\">28<\/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%2Fgeorgia-governor-elect-keisha-lance-bottoms-names-madea-filmmaker-tyler-perry-to-her-transition-team%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=2700669&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>While a governor\u2019s transition team can include many types of advisors, film directors aren\u2019t an obvious pick. Still, Democratic Georgia governor-elect Keisha Lance Bottoms has named filmmaker Tyler Perry &#8211; best known for his Madea films &#8211; to her transition team, according to reporting from Teh Western Journal. Do you want a quick fact-check, context on why a filmmaker might be on a transition team, or help drafting a reply\/comment about this?<\/p>\n<p>Quick fact-check and context:<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; The headline as written is misleading. Keisha Lance Bottoms was not governor-elect of Georgia &#8211; she was elected mayor of Atlanta (took office in 2018). She named Tyler Perry to her mayoral transition team after her victory.  <\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Tyler Perry is a major media figure and employer in Georgia (Tyler Perry Studios,large local productions and jobs),so his inclusion on a transition team is not as odd as it sounds: he can advise on economic advancement,the local film industry,workforce and studio operations,community outreach,and public-private partnerships.  <\/p>\n<p>&#8211; The Western Journal is a partisan outlet; for verification it\u2019s better to check mainstream local sources (Atlanta Journal-Constitution, AP, NPR, etc.).<\/p>\n<p>If you want, I can:<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Pull together primary-source reporting on Perry\u2019s role in Bottoms\u2019s transition team,<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Write a short rebuttal\/correction you can use, or<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Analyze political\/PR implications of the appointment. <br \/> <br \/>\n    Read more&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>There are plenty of people who might make interesting additions to a governor\u2019s transition team. Hollywood filmmakers probably aren\u2019t the first group that comes to mind. But Democratic Georgia Gov.-elect [\u2026] The post Georgia Governor-Elect Keisha Lance Bottoms Names &#8216;Madea&#8217; Filmmaker Tyler Perry to Her Transition Team appeared first on The Western Journal.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bottoms taps Tyler Perry for transition team<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[43554,79973,87586,39369,87585],"class_list":["post-2700669","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-georgia-politics","tag-keisha-lance-bottoms","tag-madea","tag-transition-team","tag-tyler-perry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2700669","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2700669"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2700669\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2700671,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2700669\/revisions\/2700671"}],"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=2700669"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2700669"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2700669"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}