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Big change doesn’t happen overnight. That’s a reality that we need to come to grips with. Big, lasting change can take years, decades even, to take hold and gain enough widespread support to become entrenched. There are a lot of reasons real, lasting change takes so long. First and foremost, as I noted yesterday,...
The race for the 9th Congressional district Democratic nomination is, perhaps, the race that I’m watching with more interest than any other. Sure, there are contests with greater impact across the state and the county, but the contest between Congressman Steve Cohen and former Memphis Mayor Willie Herenton is epic, as far as I’m...
Shelby County has been inundated with elections in the last couple of years, more than the average county. The upcoming primary is not different and Jackson Baker of the Memphis Flyer breaks it down. Several voters have apparently expressed some confusion about their options during early voting and, for that matter, on Election Day,...
Yesterday, Jackson Baker reported on the growing list of Memphis Journos that Willie Herenton doesn’t want to moderate a debate between he and Congressman Steve Cohen. From the article: The fact of Birch’s exclusion was first revealed by Cohen in a press conference at WREG Sunday night, scheduled during the hour that the July...
The dean of Memphis political reporting goes into depth on the WMC-TV debate between County Mayor Joe Ford and Sheriff Mark Luttrell: The consensus of almost everybody who was on site at the Union Avenue studios of Channel 5 was that interim mayor Ford put on one of his best performances ever, looking mayoral...
Well, yesterday was kinda fun. A couple of hours after I published this post, Jackson Baker at the Memphis Flyer took the ball and ran with it noting that another candidate has been suspiciously absent from the state’s largest county. In a comment to that article, one person opined that perhaps Stephen Fincher (Who...
Jackson Baker’s been around the political block a time or two…or maybe twelve. So when confronted with an angry Willie Herenton at last week’s impromptu press conference right outside the Cohen for Congress headquarters, Jackson took it in stride. From the article: My question for the former mayor at the impromptu press conference he...
Yesterday marked the end of the fundraising ban for state legislators. The session, which many thought would be short and sweet due to the Lt. Governor Ron Ramsey’s participation in the Gubernatorial race, has dragged on past the May 15th deadline once again, meaning that there’s plenty of unfinished business (the budget) to take...
I’ve spent the better part of the morning trying to write this very post on a topic that’s pretty near and dear to my heart, but it’s just not working. Words are failing me this morning and to be quite honest, I’m not very happy about it. This happens to me quite a bit....
The Political Popularity Contest
Politics, for all practical purposes, is a popularity contest. Elected officials try to find a pulse of what they think their constituents want and cater to that. Right now, it is my opinion if you get out of the capitol for at least 15 minutes, it’s pretty obvious that a lot of folks are...
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