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As I noted in Morning Coffee, yesterday was a pretty active day at the Memphis City Council. One of the other big issues was the Non-Discrimination Ordinance, sponsored by Councilwoman Janis Fullilove and the Shelby County contingent of the TEP. As has been widely reported, the ordinance was withdrawn yesterday due to a belief...
Jonathan Cole reports at Grand Divisions that Councilor Janis Fullilove has received death threats for sponsoring the city’s proposed Non-Discrimination Ordinance: Last night, Memphis City Councilwoman Janis Fullilove informed me that she had received four phone calls from unknown numbers threating her life. Each death threat referenced Fullilove’s sponsorship of the LGBT-inclusive employment non-discrimination...
At-Large City Councilor Janis Fullilove has started the process to pass a Non-Discrimination Ordinance through the Memphis City Council today. The Personnel committee sent it to the full Council without recommendation because it had not yet heard from Mayor Wharton’s office on its position regarding the ordinance. Councilor Fullilove explains why she is leading...
Grand Divisions is applauding some Metro Council persons in Nashville for work on the non-discrimination ordinance. Metro Council Members Megan Barry, Ronnie Steine, and Erik Cole, three of the sponsors of 2009 Metro non-discrimination ordinance, have written to the Metro Human Relations Commission urging them expand their educational programming and data collection on gender...