text: Who Atlanta Real Estate Is Backing In The Wide Open Mayor's Race – F.L.V.A
  Who Atlanta Real Estate Is Backing In The Wide Open Mayor's Race
  The other eight candidates all received less than 10% support in the poll, with Atlanta resident Walter Reeves — who espouses a tough-on-crime approach, honing in on what's viewed as the central issue of the campaign — in third with 6%. Gay and Brown, who is facing a federal indictment for fraud against several financial institutions, both were polling at 5%. Thirty-nine percent of respondents remained undecided just three months before the election.
  "I think it's critical. If you're fighting with your wife and have people over for dinner and continue to fight, I don't want to be in the middle of that," said Dallas Smith, the head of the prominent Atlanta commercial real estate brokerage firm T. Dallas Smith & Co. "I just think [Reed's] a strong candidate. Crime was low, money was in the bank. We need to get the city back to those stats."
  "When I left office, I hired 900 police officers, and I built the biggest police force in the city. That's why I believe I have the support I'm receiving," Reed said in an interview with Bisnow. "My No. 1 priority is to keep the city of Atlanta safe and to return our sense of normalcy to Atlanta, and it's going to take everyone pulling together to achieve that objective."
  "The problem is the corruption happened right under his nose," Radow said. "He's had his eight years. It's time for the city to move on."
  "[A federal investigation] hasn't reached him and maybe never will, but it probably does raise questions in some people's minds about him," Bullock said. "That would kind of negate your investment."
  "Crime has been happening in poor parts of the community for decades. Now that it's affecting wealthier parts of the city," he said. "We should have been talking about it when it was only happening to poor people."