Vincent Fort, a former Democratic leader in the Georgia Senate and one-time candidate for Atlanta mayor and Congress who championed liberal causes for decades, has died of complications of cancer. He was 68.
A family spokesman, former Atlanta City Councilman Derrick Boazman, announced Fort’s death on Sunday.
Fort was both a politician and a provocateur, unafraid to hector anyone — Republican or Democrat, banker or builder, prosecutor or presidential candidate — when he felt they were failing Georgians…