Progressive Politics from Memphis
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Why Does Whalum Choose to Stretch the Truth?
You can’t always pick your messenger, and folks who maybe aren’t so interested in resolving an issue are more interesting on TV than folks who, you know, want to see school start on time and all, but it amazes me that our media is so lilly livered that they can’t even call someone out on…
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Manufactured Crisis
“What we have here is a failure to communicate”, as the line goes from the movie Cool Hand Luke. But what Memphis has seen since Monday is not a failure of communication, but an unwillingness to communicate in any venue other than in front of the cameras. What started on Monday as a demand for…
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via City Council Chair Lowery
Below is a fact sheet sent out by City Council Chairman Myron Lowery. I’ll have a post on this at some point, but I’m still tracking down a few details… — City of Memphis Education Funding Fact Sheet · The City of Memphis has paid MCS over $171.7 million in operating funds since July 2008…
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This Isn’t Going to Stop Fraud
No matter what, there’s always going to be someone that tries to game the system. That’s just the way it is. And to the extent that it’s a problem, there should be some effort to keep people from gaming the system, in this case, the system we have in place to protect the vote. For…
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It Was Designed to Happen This Way
Back at the end of June I wrote a couple of posts about the new ID requirements for voting and the free ID bill that seeks to keep the US Supreme Court from overturning those ID requirements. On Friday the Tri-State Defender published an article detailing just how arduous a task it is to get…
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Conflict of Interest
Tomorrow afternoon the Memphis City Council will take up, and presumably pass the redistricting proposal that Council Attorney Alan Wade released on July 8th. It’s been three months since the redistricting ordinance passed on second reading. At the time of second read, there were no maps, lists of precincts, or any other information that would…