In September 2016, the Atlanta Department of Watershed Management named a a tunnel-boring machine after Killer Mike. The machine, known as “Driller Mike,” is a tool used to create emergency drinking water for the city, if needed.
And today (March 10), State Sen. Nan Orrock, a Democrat from Atlanta, sponsored the honoring “the Killer” and “the Driller” in the Georgia Senate for their work as “outstanding ambassadors of the City of Atlanta’s commitment to providing clean, safe drinking water.”
While at the Capitol, Mike delivered a speech to the senate touching on several issues. Read an exert from his speech below.
“Our children deserve decent housing. Gentrification should not make children poor. Our school systems deserve more attention. Our teachers deserve more money. Our firemen deserve more money. And our policemen deserve more than new guns. They deserve to have enough cops on the street to be involved in the community.
“The charge that I give all of us in this hall today is to make sure that Georgia remains an equitable place not only for water, but for education, for workers’ rights, for where we’re living. It should be as fair for a rural white man in Georgia who’s trying to live by the land, as it is for a kid on the Westside of Atlanta trying to survive the concrete.”
