Helmut Love

Helmut Love was born in El Paso, Texas. He graduated from James E. Taylor High School. He earned a bachelor's degree from Texas A&M University in 1998, a graduate degree from the Northwestern University, Kellogg School of Management in 2009, and graduated from Harvest Christian University in 2024. His career experience includes working as a consultant and working 10 years at General Electric and five at McKesson. He has been affiliated with the Fulton County Republicans, the Log Cabin Republicans, and The Gayly Impact nonprofit.[1]

Who are you? Tell us about yourself.

Georgians are struggling with economics, with trust of the government and with hope in a system they feel is built against them. Dr. Helmut Love is running to promote solutions that rise above party.

Dr. Love is a Democratic Republican - meaning he believes that citizens are tired of division. He is entering the race as a business outsider who wants to solve Democratic issues with Republican solutions.

His candidacy centers itself in 6 key areas and are all centered around democratizing social services using republican outcome-based policy with public-private partnership that do not compromise individual freedoms.

Central to this position is his AI-for-Good initiative that positions the State to reduce the cost of healthcare and education, reform foster care and prisons, and even re-imagine how SNAP benefit programs work.

Dr. Love began as a biomedical engineer from Texas A&M, and later earned an MBA at Northwestern’s prestigious Kellogg School of Management.

Helmut pioneered groundbreaking radiology-cardiology technologies at General Electric and later developed McKesson Practice Choice, the company’s first web-based primary care patient platform.

In leadership roles at major corporations, including Microsoft, Nuance, and IBM Watson, Helmut managed billion-dollar portfolios and guided teams through remarkable growth. He has implemented transformative AI and blockchain.

A devoted father, Dr. Love currently consults with businesses in AI and strategy.

Please list below 3 key messages of your campaign. What are the main points you want voters to remember about your goals for your time in office?

Helmut is fighting for Affordable Living and Smart Taxes to make it possible for families and young professionals to thrive in Atlanta

He is also fighting for Safe Neighborhoods. He believes in deploying strong law enforcement and modern technology for safer streets.

He has detailed and innovative policies in these areas.Helmut supports Businesses and Entrepreneurs. He is a defend of Responsible Capitalism and AI to improve healthcare, education, and public services.

Also, Helmut wants World-Class Education in Georgia.

He will fight to give the next generation the tools needed to excel, especially in financial literacy, the helping professions, and technology.

He has detailed and innovative policies in these areas.Helmut is fighting for Modern Transportation in Atlanta and Georgia. He wants a world-class city and state depend on roads, trains, and public transport to thrive.

He also wants Compassion-Informed LGBT Policies. Helmut will fight to protect the rights of children, parents, gay, and trans citizens to form clear identities and be supported and loved along the journey.

He has detailed and innovative policies in these areas.

What areas of public policy are you personally passionate about?

Housing, Affordability, Financial Literacy, Education, Homelessness, Foster Care, Prison Reform, Tax Reduction, AI-for-Good, Faith of Choice in Schools, Balanced LGBT development policy in education, Saftey, Responsible Capitalism, Outcome-driven policy, Modern Transportation , Small Business

Who do you look up to? Whose example would you like to follow, and why?

Abraham Lincoln - an incredible ability to work across egos and see the Union thru a time of great division unto the highest moral end

What characteristics or principles are most important for an elected official?

Integrity

What do you believe are the core responsibilities for someone elected to this office?

Policy that Serves the People

What legacy would you like to leave?

That at a time of great division, I united people in a direction that Loved America

What was your very first job? How long did you have it?

A lifeguard - my first summer out of highschool

What is something that has been a struggle in your life?

Being a gay father - one foot in two different worlds

What do you believe is the ideal relationship between the governor and state legislature?

Partnership

What do you perceive to be your state's greatest challenges over the next decade?

Forwarding a responsible Capitalism that does not give in to fascism or socialism.

Do you believe that compromise is necessary or desirable for policymaking?

I believe there is usually a best solution and yes we need compromise to get there, but when people are aligned in what is best for the people, there is far less policy to debate about.

What was the first historical event that happened in your lifetime that you remember?

In 1989, the Berlin Wall fell

Who are you? Tell us about yourself.

Hello, my name is Dr. Helmut Lucero Love. I come from a bit of a mixed up family. My father is a 1st generation German immigrant whose parents were Nazi resistance. My mother is Latin Native-American whose grandparents were rebels who stole from the rich to give to the poor in Northern Mexico before they became Christian missionaries. And I was born in El Paso, Texas and lived the American Dream.

I worked hard, got a biomedial engineering degree at Texas A&M and a Kellog Northwestern MBA, and worked at giants like General Electric, McKesson and IBM Watson where I lead hundred million dolloar portfolios in healthcare tech and AI. I became an expert in leading large teams, growth and turn-arounds.

I am running for Mayor of Atlanta because I don't see the kind of hope I want to see in the eyes of my three daughters, their peers and other parents my age.

With Federal Dollars being cut and AI job loss on the horizon it is imperative that we start to do things differents. We must remove the long-standing corruption in our city leadership so that we can protect our citizens and then attract the kind of wealth that will make Atlanta the Number 1 city in the United States.

This is especially true for Atlanta, which has the largest welath-gap of any large city in the country. Its time to do things differently because Atlanta deserves more.

Vote for Love, because anything is possible with Love.

Please list below 3 key messages of your campaign. What are the main points you want voters to remember about your goals for your time in office?

My 6-point Atlanta Rises plan is built to address issues like strenghtening our economcy, protecting people, restoring integrity from corruption, transportation, healthcare, and growing our collective unity.

Part of that strategy is a unique marketing position and mission for the city: One Love on One Earth for One Humanity.

We will generate economic growth thru collaboration in a One Love consortium focused on citizens as a sales front-door to collaborate with small businesses, large corporations and the entertainment industry.

With a focus on faith, finance, green tech and humanitarian issues, we will host One Love, One Earth and One Humanity conferences to elevate our thought leadership and research/grant investment.To shift our city futher, I have an AI and tech in every part of city and social services. To facillitate this, I have named a One Humanity Executive, Dr Stacee Lang, who will help consolidate and focus our non-profit efforts across the city.

With joint-ventures in each area, I intend to drive out-come focused non-profit efforts that can be developed here and sold to other cities.

This strategy is grounded in a committment to developing a Responsible Capitalism. When we apply the efficiencies of business to social services, we can know that our systems help people learn, recover, and grow so that they can become stronger contributors to the economy.

This straegy will attract investmetn and ultiamtely ongoign revevnues for our city.Finally, we are in a time that requires restoration. I have developed a One Love Reconciliation plan to bring about healing of our division.

It is time for Atlanta to acknowledge our past and apologize for it and then set new goals ahead for our mission in One Love on One Earth for One Humanity.

Besides a proclomation and monument, I will pull a comission together to make suggestions in areas from incarceration, education, media and business practices, but most importantly we will invest in a $10M pilot for a private/public wealth-sharing program built on the republican valor of merit to grow entreprenuers and skilled laborers of those that have been economically left behind by all the wrongs we have committed to oneanother.

What areas of public policy are you personally passionate about?

Economic Responsiblity, Media, Policing and Incarceration, Education, Taxation and Universal Morality

Who do you look up to? Whose example would you like to follow, and why?

Jesus Christ, MLK, Queen Elizabeth, Oprah, Mister Rogers, Abraham Lincoln: People who stood up and used their lives to make an incredible difference thru their service to others.

What characteristics or principles are most important for an elected official?

Integrity, Moral Clarity, Independent Thinking, Creativity, Transparency, Authenticiy, Demonstrated Love for Humankind, Long-term Thinking

What do you believe are the core responsibilities for someone elected to this office?

Fiscal Capability, Creativity, Heart-Driven Leadership, Experience in Large Organizations, Team Building, and an unwavering dedication to the People

What legacy would you like to leave?

I want to break boxes and build humans, families, businesses and governments that reflect our heightest selves.

To do this, we must first come to love and lead outselves by dismantling lies about ourselves that we learned from our parents, from the village and ourselves the sparate us from believing and pursing our heighest self. This pursuit is the pursuit of God, the One Love that is the common rainbow chord of every faith and even science.

I want to inspire people to believe in One Love that is stronger than our division and to know that building a Responsibly Capitalism is not just a possiblity, but our destiny to push our society into the next millineum.

What is the first historical event that happened in your lifetime that you remember? How old were you at the time?

9/11 is the most impactful, tho certainly not the first. My world view shifted that day.

What was your very first job? How long did you have it?

Lifeguard - I was 15 in highschool, I had it for 2 summers!

What is your favorite book? Why?

My own Book: Wake Up to Your Life Magic - Your Roadmap to Riches Love and Happiness, because it is the culmination of all the books that have poured into me, and took me an incredible amount of time sitting with Love in prayer and asking how I could help others to Wake Up as well.

If you could be any fictional character, who would you want to be?

Spiderman - Fighting for Good, Destory the Bad Guys, and Making the World a Better Place.

What is something that has been a struggle in your life?

Self Worth. It took me a long time to recover from the separation from family, society and God that being born gay in a traditional Christian household introduced. But even tho I often railed against God, and society, and did all kinds of self-harming things, hurting others in the process, I ultimately found the truth. That I am a wonderfully made child of the One Love and that I do not need to compromise my gay nature to be loved in Christ, and that does not at all conflict with my gay belief in a common Love, the love of the Creator. Everything I am doing in my life is for the glory of the One Love, and as a Chrsitian, for his son Jesus.

A mayor is a leader in his or her city. What does that mean to you?

Being a parent to the city, both in Protection and in Love. Seeking the citizens economic, social, moral and spiritual well being in areas like policing, education, transportation, infrastructure, etc.

If the mayor in your city is a member of the city council and there's a city manager appointed to handle the day-to-day administration of the city government, what do you believe should be the mayor's top priority in office?

The Mayor is not a member of city council but my primary areas of focse need to be economic responsiblity, execution and adminisration, removing corrpution and ensuring our readiness and progress in all major dimensions of the city.

If the mayor in your city is not a member of the city council and oversees the day-to-day administration of the city government, what do you believe is the ideal relationship between the mayor and city council?

Its certainly to be partners in moving Atlanta forward, preserving our integrity and ensuring that dollars are optimized for the outcomes of the city's future and the protection of our residents.

What do you love most about your city?

Its diversity and its incredible history - and with that the tremendous possiblity we have to be the #1 American city if we can remove its present day corruption.

What do you perceive to be your city's greatest challenges over the next decade?

The layers of long-standing corruption that have plagued the city, the uncheck capitalism that is threatening American and the change of heart and mind that will be required of citizens at every level to steer us into the future.

What do you believe is the ideal relationship between your city and the state government?

Partners. Many of my suggested programs are best and optimally done in coordination with State leadership.

What do you believe is the ideal relationship between your city and the federal government?

Partners. Many of my suggested programs are best and optimally done in coordination with Federal leadership.

What do you believe is the ideal relationship between the mayor's office and law enforcement?

Partners. It is imperative that the Mayor back and encouage the best policing for the saftey of our residents.

Candidates hear many personal stories from voters. Is there a story that you’ve heard that you found particularly touching or memorable?

Speaking with a retired grandma, former school teacher who is worried about crime and rising prices - particularly that she may be out on the streets, when she did everything she knew how to do to avoid it.

What is an accomplishment that you are proud of?

The Gayly Dose Podcast - besides being voted Best Podcast Atlanta 2023, and many views, guests and dialog to elevate the LGBT community; we literally saved lives and I am so very thankful for its impact.