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Chumney Leads a Lagging Herenton, Say Two New Polls [Memphis Mayor race]
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| Contributor | Servo |
| Last Edited | Servo Mar 29, 2007 01:27pm |
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| News Date | Wednesday, March 28, 2007 07:00:00 PM UTC0:0 |
| Description | A couple of months ago, former Shelby County mayor Bill Morris, then thinking in mainly hypothetical terms about a possible race for Memphis mayor of his own against incumbent Willie Herenton, opined to a luncheon group of self-styled "Politicos" that Herenton would be an easy winner over a field that was then presumed to include city council member Carol Chumney, former MLGW head Herman Morris, and ex-Shelby County Commissioner John Willingham.
When Morris was asked again this week about the mayor's race, he saw a radically changed picture. He now perceived Herenton as vulnerable to the point that the mayor might actually consider withdrawing, with Shelby County mayor A C Wharton (who is being relentlessly hotboxed to make a race by high-ranking civic sorts) hovering ever nearer in the wings. And, though Bill Morris ventured no hint of his own intentions, whatever impulse had caused him to think about running in the first place had to have been enhanced by intervening events.
Mainly two new polls which, the Flyer has learned, not only show Herenton in significant decline with the electorate - both white and black-- but reveal that Chumney's two-years' worth of high-profile challenges to the mayor have elevated her to first place among the candidates now in the field. |
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