Posted on 08/02/2018 9:29:39 PM PDT by where's_the_Outrage?
Well, that was the GOP areas outside the city of Memphis. Now it’s so that Memphis has a White Dem Mayor and the county a Black Dem Mayor. They did have a Black Dem Mayor of the county before, A.C. Wharton, but he chucked the job to run for city Mayor. He was a disaster and lost to the White guy (he won in 2011 with 60% of the vote, got just 22% in 2015).
I haven’t heard much about Strickland’s tenure, though, only that he’s probably slightly more moderate than his predecessors.
As for Lee Harris, he’s not a moonbat going by his Senate record, but I doubt he’ll be much more than mediocre unless he plans to move rightward.
The slickest pol around used to be “King Willie” Herenton, the longtime almost 20-year Mayor of Memphis. He played footsie with anyone and everyone, including using White Republicans for their votes (to scare them away from the Ford Family, which tried to get control of the whole city, and Herenton opposed them), to keep himself in office. I think it would’ve been amusing to have seen him in Congress instead of the execrable Cohen. I surmised he might’ve voted perhaps 50% right in Congress. Even Junior Ford was going close to 40% (the only reason why he was remotely competitive statewide).
I’m forgetting the White Senator. The Black Senator was Reginald Tate of Memphis, who will be the seniormost Black member in that body with the departure of Harper. The ACU didn’t rate Tate in 2017 because of absences, but he voted “+” on virtually every one of their issues when he did vote.
I remember I went to look up a particular fella in Kansas (Haley) from a Black Republican family in the KC area. His father served as a GOP State Senator and later was an Ambassador. The son tried to run for the legislature (House) as a Republican, but they wouldn’t vote for him. He ran as a Democrat and they did. I was curious to see how he voted, if it was far left to pander, but turned out to be centrist, proving again as I said, Blacks will elect a center-right person as long as it’s a Democrat. He’s more Conservative than a number of White RINOs in the state who have no business not being Democrats (the infamous “Moderates” who are anything but, the 3rd party in KS than infests the GOP).
The city voters can vote for County Mayor (right?) though so I’m surprised it had been Republican held.
Ton of county wide offices and it looks the GOP held all but 2 and have now lost all but DA (which wasn’t up cause it’s...an 8 year term?)
Lame.
No, I don’t believe city voters can vote for county Mayor, unless I’m mistaken. If they did, Republicans wouldn’t be able to win there anymore.
I never heard of a mayor of a county.
Actually, city voters CAN and DO vote for county Mayor. The city of Knoxville voters live in Knox County. However, county voters cannot vote for the city mayor or any city office. It’s screwy. The only reason the city gets Socialist Activist mayors, ex.: Madeline Rogero, is because the whole county doesn’t get to a say so in their mayoral election. In effect, we have co-Mayors. Tim Burchett and Madeline are poles apart in political views. Their working relationship is about like oil and water.
So who gets the Superintendent of Cemeteries job?......
TN yesterday had RECORD GOP turnout for a nonpresidential year.
Me either.
I also noticed the high GOP turnout as the votes came in last night. Good to see.
Hearing it was 3:1 GOP.
Thanks for the info. I hope he wins.
Same thing as a country judge executive or county manager.
The position used to be called “County Executive”. A few years ago some people decided the title should be “County Mayor”. The county mayor works as a mayor, but mainly for the county residents. Typical mayor stuff. The buck as far as county roads, budgets for the county, taxes, parks, business development...the regular stuff. If you live in the county, you pay county property taxes; if you live in the City of Knoxville you pay City taxes and County property taxes. The city has curbside, tax-paid garbage pickup, more street lights, tax-paid fire departments, the Knoxville Police Dept’s jurisdiction in within City limits, etc., etc. If you live in the County, you pay for your own garbage pickup or drive to the waste disposal sites, and for your own fire protection (Rural Metro, currently), and the Knox County Sheriff’s Office. At times in the past KPD and the KCSO have had pissing contests over jurisdictions. KPD thinks they own Knoxville and even if the city of Knoxville is WITHIN the county, they’d have hissy fits if KCSO made arrests within the city limits unless KPD asked for assistance.
They used to be called County Executives, but mid-2000’s they were renamed “County Mayors.”
OK. I wasn’t sure if the same was true in Memphis/Shelby County with city voters deciding on the county Mayor. Being in Nashville, we don’t have dual offices as we’re consolidated. It would benefit Knox to do the same, as the county would save the city from electing nutters like Rogero. Conversely, it would not help Shelby, since they’d be outvoted by the city voters and it would only help to see the GOP voters “vote” with their feet (to Hernando County, MS).
The big question is how many were Democrat voters. Because we are an open primary state, Democrat chicanery is an epidemic when they ceased to be a competitive party.
The GOP nominated a closet Democrat, Slick Bill Lee, from my city who has never done anything for the GOP or Conservative causes and has donated to every Democrat candidate (always the most left-wing of the runoff candidates) for Mayor every cycle. The actual Democrat running, Karl “Marx” Dean, Lee supported with his $$. Ditto with Bredesen.
He ran 5-star bullshit ads as if he were running for pastor-in-chief of Tennessee. We also don’t have runoffs in TN, so this buffoon who can’t even articulate policy positions (stick a finger in the wind), gets the nod with 2/3rds of the primary voters opposed to him (higher if you remove the Democrat influence).
It would’ve been an even bigger joke had we gone to a runoff, since the #2 slot went to La Raza Randy, open borders whore and chronic leftist liar who should’ve been the Democrat nominee.
With two Democrats (in deeds and actions) in the general,
I won’t be voting for Slick under any circumstances. I will support Blackburn for Senator. Lee can go get Democrats to install his sorry lying ass.
Ex-Nashville Mayor Megan Barry* is available. She loves cemeteries. They make her horny. She can’t go into one without f*****g one of her married boyfriends.
(*Did I mention Fake Republican Slick Bill Lee supported Megan Barry ?)
It doesn’t make much sense if they can’t I mean, are they not subject to county government? This isn’t Virginia we’re talking about. The county runs all the schools. The winning rat is from Memphis (so was the last rat County Mayor) and campaigned on ending “blight” in the city.
The GOP victories did come in 2010 and 2014, so that’s not so unbelievable. I would surmise that suburban Whites typically fing hate Black dems from Memphis, who probably don’t turn out so well in these elections usually.
Frankly, I don’t think this rat victory would be possible without the city. The numbers correlate, 146K+ votes cast in the gubernatorial primaries in Shelby county. 153,583 votes cast for County Mayor.
Dems are crowing about this but if they only won back offices that they only lost in the first place cause they couldn’t turn out Memphis Blacks in 2010 and 2014 then that, while tragic for county residents, ain’t no kind of big deal, that’s the rats making a layup.
The overall TN turnout looked good for Republicans as LS pointed out. GOP turnout was higher than 2014.
It confused me. “County” to me always meant those areas not incorporated within the main city. It doesn’t seem fair that city residents can dictate to the non-city residents who their elected leaders are, but non-city can’t vote on the city leaders.
The new county Mayor-elect is the present Senate Minority Leader, Lee Harris (who has just 4 other members in his caucus). He obviously realized with a non-competitive party that is literally at rock-bottom as political dynamics/demographics stand (all 5 seats are the bedrock Dem - 3 in Memphis and 2 in Nashville), short of Blacks going back to the GOP, he’s powerless in Nashville.
The only other option for power for Harris is to use the County Mayoralship as a stepping stone for the City Mayor (I doubt he would challenge city Mayor Strickland in 2019 - perhaps in 2023, as I don’t know if Memphis has a two-term limit) or wait for Cohen to quit and go to Congress. Cohen, however, may decide to serve until he’s carried out feet-first. He’s already been in office 4 decades, so at this point, he might as well treat the House like a nursing home.
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