Atlanta City Council OKs new airport name

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[Republican Red]

City Council OKs New Airport Name
The Associated Press

City Council members voted today to rename Atlanta's sprawling Hartsfield International Airport, adding former Mayor Maynard Jackson's name to its title. Hartsfield International Airport will become Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport under a compromise put forward by Mayor Shirley Franklin and approved by the City Council members.

The council members discussed the proposal for about two hours before voting 12 to two in favor of the change.

The measure needed eight votes to pass. Council members Anne Fauver and Clair Muller voted against the renaming.

Much of the opposition leading up to the vote came from the heirs of current airport namesake William B. Hartsfield, the city's longest-serving mayor, who as a councilman in the 1920s was instrumental in selecting a blackberry patch south of town as the original site for the airport.

The effort to put Jackson's name on the airport began almost immediately after his death in June.

[Mears]

I've never been to Atlanta,what did Jackson do to deserve having his name on the airport?

[Catspaw]

Off the top of my head, Maynard Jackson was Mayor of Atlanta, brought the Olympics to Atlanta, stuff like that.

[Moose4]

Big-city NAALCP/liberal rules--NOTHING can be named after a white man. NOTHING. All streets, civic buildings, schools, any sort of physical plant, all must be named after either some person of color or other, or perhaps a woman. Rare exceptions are granted for the Alan Aldas, Julius Rosenbergs, Vlad Lenins, and Saddam Husseins of the world.

Want to name something after Maynyard Jackson? Rip down the signs at I-285 and GA 10 and re-rename Memorial Drive from "Cynthia McKinney Parkway" to the "McKinney-Jackson Enter At Your Own Risk Parkway."

}:-)4

[tet68]

Actually it's called the Maynard Jackson memorial sewer recclamination project.

Thanks a lot Maynard.

[Mears]

getting the Olympics was quite a coup,I had forgotten abouG that.

[dts32041]

Yep it was a big coup, and kind of blew up in everybody's faces.

[doodad]

what did Jackson do to deserve having his name on the airport?

Not much other than the typical corruption in Atlanta. He used his minority status (despite being a millionare thanks to NICE awards from the city to his company) to obtain minority set aside locations for airport restaurants.

[Viking2002]

Mark my words, nobody (but the left-wing media) is going to bother to refer to the airport as 'Hartsfield-Jackson'. And the same elitest buffoons that perpetrated this farce will scream 'Racism! Racism! Whitey's at it again!' Maynard Jackson had ZERO to do with that airport in the scheme of things; I live outside of Atlanta, and it's a well-known fact that the city council debates about the name change were little more than an Afro-centric love-in for a corrupt black man. Blacks running the city abhor the notion that Atlanta is becoming an increasingly white-yuppie city (so do I, for differing reasons), so this was their way of flexing their muscles and saying that they're still in charge.

[binreadin]

Roger that, and the commission that was convened to consider this change recommended against the name change! Not that anyone cared. Atlanta is so screwed up you can't even find a map that's accurate, because they are so busy changing street names to "honor" their cronies.

[jrushing]

City Council members voted today to rename Atlanta's sprawling Hartsfield International Airport, adding former Mayor Maynard Jackson's name to its title. Hartsfield International Airport will become Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport under a compromise put forward by Mayor Shirley Franklin and approved by the City Council members.
(what did Jackson do to deserve having his name on the airport?)
It dosen't matter, Baby!
What are you, A Racist?

[Roswell Bear]

Maynard was re-elected after being out of office for one term. The Olympic movement was WELL on it's way and Maynard was just basically a figure-head at the announcement ceremony of the selection of Atlanta in Tokyo. It was then his administration and cronies(shady contracts) that allowed all the street vendors and commercialization of the Olympics that got Atlanta all the bad press.

[Uncle Sausage]

Recently spent some time in Hartsfield while changing planes. The place seems to be a monument to blackness.

[Tacis]

I AM OUTRAGED!!! OUTRAGED!!

Why would a fine southern city like Atlanta alienate liberals the world over by naming thier airport after a Confederate General, Stonewall Jackson? It doesn't make sense!

The airport will now be known as The Stonewall. You tell the cab driver,"Take me to The Stonewall." Why would these folks glorify a democrat who fought the Republicans who were trying to end slavery?

It is a lot like that spokesman for the dems who is named after the two rebel generals, Generals Jackson and Lee. You'd think blacks would resent something like that even though they know that democrats hate blacks and always have.

To be fair, it might turn in to a racial thing. Whites will tell the cab driver to "Take me to the Stonewall," while blacks will tell the cab driver to "Take me to The Jesse."

[xrp]

eh...I just call it Atlanta Airport.

[xrp]

haha, that's pretty funny

[Dog Gone]

I guess the nice thing is that this trend probably has a self-limiting feature. Adding two more hyphenated names to it is probably the max.

[Mears]

Weell no,I'm not a racist since I don't know what his race is. It's unusual to change the name of an airport in this way,that's all.