Atlanta Mayor Dismisses Cop City Referendum as “Not an Election”

Atlanta Mayor Dismisses Cop City Referendum as “Not an Election”

Atlanta Mayor Andre Dickens said this week that he wishes to “err on the side” of ensuring residents are heard in their effort to hold a citywide vote on the construction of a $90 million police training facility — even as his own administration refuses to move forward with the process of verifying signatures gathered in support of the referendum.  Dickens’s comment came in a letter to Sen. Raphael Warnock, D-Ga., who had written to the mayor in…