Posts Tagged ‘Memphis’

July 24 2010

Ex-mayor makes Memphis primary about race

Former Memphis Mayor Willie Herenton says he will run for the 9th District U.S. Congressional seat currently occupied by incumbent Steve Cohen in Memphis, Tenn. In the city where Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated, a once-unbeatable former mayor wants the Democratic congressional primary to be a referendum on race.


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