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Lisa's Bio
Lisa For Mayor
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HRC Dinner
President Borders attends the Human Rights Campaign Dinner. See story...
Inman Park Festival
President Borders with members of the WNBA's Atlanta Dream enjoy the Inman Park Festival. See Press Release...
Chinese Delegation in ATL
President Borders with Yuxiang Long (3rd from right), Lani Wong (2nd from right) and a Chinese delegation from the China International Cultural Communication Center. Several Chinese companies have located in Georgia in the recent years and City officials hope additional Chinese businesses will call Atlanta home in the future. See press release...
President Borders on NPR
President Borders with Farai Chadeya - Host, NPR's "News & Notes" who moderated an in-depth panel discussion about the youth vote and how that voting bloc is showing up at the polls in record numbers this election season.
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Tour de Georgia
Sylvia Anderson, President AT&T Georgia; Bibby King, Program Director of Georgia Cancer Coalition; Lt Gov Casey Cagle; Atlanta City Council President Lisa Borders; Eugene Hayes, President of Children's Healthcare of Atlanta Foundation; Mayor Shirley Franklin pose behind a limited-edition Litespeed bike, the official bicycle of the 2008 Tour de Georgia.
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Next Atlanta City Council Meeting: July 7, 2008
Lisa Takes Step Towards Mayor
Lisa Borders, President of the Atlanta City Council, has taken a step toward running for Atlanta mayor in 2009.
Borders filed a postcard-sized declaration with the city clerk that she intends to accept campaign contributions in a bid for the mayor's post. See Full Story...
From the Atlanta Business Chronicle
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Lisa Named One of Atlanta's 2007 Most Influential by Business Chronicle
President Borders Profiled on Shaping Policy and Atlanta's Growth
Mayor Shirley Franklin's right-hand woman, Borders is already emerging as a leading candidate to succeed the mayor in 2010, and it's easy to see why. Borders has the thankless task of steering the mayor's major policy initiatives through the often divided council over which she presides.
For much of 2005, her first year in charge, she had only non-controversial projects like affordable housing to shepherd along, getting by on her management experience at Cousins Properties, Inc. But when Borders faced her first trial by fire, she handled it smoothly, facing down activists who showed up in August to rail against the anti-panhandling bill. Several of them were tossed from the chamber when they began screaming in protest. Borders, though, looks to be a fixture of the local political scene for years to come.
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International Civil Rights Walk of Fame
Lisa, with Mayor Franklin, enjoying a spiritual selection at the International Civil Rights Walk of Fame ceremony. Lisa's grandfather, Rev. William Holmes Borders, Sr., was among those inducted along with President Bill Clinton, Bishop Desmond Tutu, Stevie Wonder, and six others.
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