Lewis Reed, who serves as president of the Board of Aldermen and ran against Slay three years ago, said he is definitely going to run again. Reed is a distant second to Daly in campaign funding, with just under $136,000 cash on hand.
Reed, like Antonio French, has accused Slay of focusing too much on developing downtown and the city’s central corridor and not enough on the safety of neighborhoods where minorities and the poor live. Until ºüÀêÊÓƵ can overcome its image as the one of the country’s most dangerous, the city’s population of 315,000 will continue to drop, Reed said.