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Ford vs. Cohen: Again? This Time the Candidate's First Name Could be Justin
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| Contributor | COSDem |
| Last Edited | COSDem Apr 06, 2011 11:45pm |
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| Category | General |
| Media | Newspaper - Memphis Flyer |
| News Date | Friday, April 1, 2011 05:00:00 AM UTC0:0 |
| Description | Talk about following family tradition: Justin Ford, the first-term Shelby County commissioner and member of the well-known political clan, not only is involved in the family funeral-home business (and considering opening up his own independent establishment), he’s thinking of making a political race that would have him treading in the footsteps of other Fords.
That race? One for Congress, he confided while doing a daily morning workout Thursday on an elliptical cross trainer at ATC Fitness in Lakeland. Against Steve Cohen, a fellow Democrat and the incumbent congressman in the 9th District? “Against whoever,” Ford shrugged. (Inasmuch as he holds the Position 3, District 3 commission seat, which is well within the confines of the 9th Congressional District, both the question and the answer were more rhetorical than not.)
If the 25-year-old commissioner — elected last year to succeed his father, Joe Ford, who had gone on to serve as interim county mayor — really does end up making the congressional race, he will become the fourth member of the extended Ford family to compete against Cohen for the seat. Cousin Harold Ford Jr. won the Democratic primary against Cohen in 1996, and cousin Jake Ford, running as an independent, lost to Cohen, the Democratic nominee, in 2006. Also running in what had been a crowded Democratic primary that year was Justin Ford's brother, Joe Ford Jr.
Last year, running for a third term against former Mayor Willie Herenton, which he won easily, Cohen had the public support of former congressman Harold Ford Sr., the family patriarch, and the implied support of Harold Ford Jr. |
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