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Progressive Politics from Memphis

  • Police Keep Mayor from Crime Meeting

    A mob of 150 citizens overtook the Memphis City Council meeting on Tuesday. Citing poor law enforcement in the face of a burgeoning crime epidemic that is sweeping the city, the largest audience to greet the council in years demanded answers from the largely impotent body. Surprised by the sudden interest of a typically apathetic…

  • Ethics Reform in TN

    Last week the TN ledge sent HB1874/SB1264 to the Governor for a signature. The bill specifically prohibits any person convicted of a felony in their capacity as an elected official from running for office. I call it the John Ford Bill. Since the whole Tennessee Waltz thing hit, and the Ed Ford/Rickey Peete thing landed,…

  • In Defense of Vic

    I would like to take this opportunity to defend Vic Snyder from my dear friends LWC and Freedonian. As a former constituent of AR-02, I have seen the leadership and vision of Congressman Snyder first hand. Vic is a great representative. He’s not flashy, he’s not sexy, but he’s solid. There are a lot of…

  • In the Hour of My Content…

    Just flew into DC this morning, after a good night of chatting with my liberal pals. I’ve been to DC more times than I can count for work in the 10 years that I’ve been doing events, but I’ve never had the time to get out into the city and REALLY look around. Today, I…

  • Our Tragic Love Affair

    I am perplexed. When’s the last time we had an ugly President? Taft? He wasn’t pretty, but had a commanding presence. Johnson? Not pretty, but he had moxie…until they messed up Vietnam and he got tired (realized he couldn’t win). Nixon? He looked weird all right, but how weird for 1968? Not all that weird.…

  • On staying in front of IT

    Due to the overwhelming response I received from my last post on leadership (/snark, but seriously, thanks for the email mention Cracker), I thought I would continue to riff on that leadership theme. See, to my way of thinking, there are two ways to deal with a problem; react or anticipate. Both have their plusses…