Herenton says city lacks ‘transformational’ mayor
Former Mayor Willie Herenton talks on “Behind The Headlines” about his bid to return as mayor, a recent discussion he had with millennials and his leadership of MPD.
Topic: 2023 Memphis Mayor's race
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September 2023
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Young, Bonner almost tied atop field, new poll shows
About 23% of voters remained undecided, indicating that the crowded 17-person field remains very much up in the air.
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Stadium funding could land on next Memphis mayor’s desk. Six candidates said what they’d do.
Six candidates were asked how they would allocate $350 million in state cash between Simmons Bank Liberty Stadium and FedExForum.
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Early voting in Memphis city election begins Friday
Early voting begins Friday, Sept. 15, with a large field of 17 mayoral candidates.
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Sanford: It’s up to city voters, including younger ones, to boost election turnout
“Memphis is at a critical juncture. We cannot afford to continue the stagnation. We cannot continue allowing crime, poverty and low educational achievement to define this city.”
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‘You can’t just hide at Houston’s’: McKissack questions no-show Herenton at debate
The candidates were allowed to ask each other questions, confronting one another on their pasts and records.
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Political Roundup: Attack ads, early voting and school-board primaries
This roundup looks at the latest report on voter registration, checks in with Election Commission officials ahead of Friday’s opening of early voting in Memphis and replays the Republican debate that ended with no school-board primaries.
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Memphis mayor’s race still in flux a week before early voting begins
With less than a week before early voting begins in the 2023 Memphis elections, a reporters roundtable on “Behind The Headlines” looks at what is at stake.
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Memphis Mayor’s Race 2023: Paul Young
Young has made a slow, steady rise through local governments as his mother had dreamed he would. Along the way, he accumulated the experience that he says makes him unique among the mayoral candidates.
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Memphis Mayor’s Race 2023: Floyd Bonner Jr.
Bonner has run on the promise of growing the Memphis Police Department, expanding its ranks and fighting for stricter criminal sentencing laws — policies that mimic those of the man he is trying to succeed, Memphis Mayor Jim Strickland.
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Political Roundup: 901 Day, too many candidates and not enough votes
Van Turner and Paul Young started their mayoral campaigns a year ago on 901 Day. A year later, they talk about what separates each in a pack of 17 candidates.
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Memphis Mayor’s Race 2023: Willie Herenton
Herenton lost the mayor’s office to Jim Strickland by almost 40 percentage points. Despite that defeat, Herenton’s confidence, never in short supply, still shines through.
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Labor and social justice groups back Turner in bid to repeat 2022 blue wave
The coalition argues a wave in the 2022 countywide elections can be repeated despite city elections being nonpartisan. Meanwhile, the local Republican party has endorsed Sheriff Floyd Bonner Jr.
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Memphis Mayor’s Race 2023: Karen Camper
Camper, the state’s House minority leader, said her approach after two Democratic state representatives used a bullhorn on the House floor, leading protesters in chants, opened the door during the special legislative session that began Aug. 21.
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Memphis Mayor’s Race 2023: Van Turner
As Turner heads into the final weeks of the Memphis mayoral race, his campaign has been shaped by his time on the Shelby County Commission as well as his own journey from — and then back to — Memphis.
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Memphis Mayor’s Race 2023: J.W. Gibson
J.W. Gibson is a successful businessman and a candidate for Memphis mayor. He is a long way from Dixie Homes, where he grew up, yet oh so close, too.
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Memphis Mayor’s Race 2023: Michelle McKissack
The platform for Michelle McKissack’s mayoral campaign is simple: Whole City Memphis. Meaning, everyone deserves an opportunity. And it will take everyone to lift the city up.
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Opinion: In the mayor’s race, the candidates have been ‘silent’ on TVA
“We should ask who is willing to stand-up to TVA’s neglect, disrespect and disregard for our health and our community economic welfare. And who is interested in trying to save our citizens half a billion dollars a year in power costs.”
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Here’s who else is running to be Memphis’ next mayor
These other 10 contenders are on the October ballot for Memphis mayor.
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In bid for mayor, Paul Young is out to change the city’s reality
Young thinks he is more prepared to hold the office than any other new mayor in the city’s history.
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Van Turner has had plenty of stops on path to mayor’s race
The life of the attorney and former Shelby County commissioner has taken him to Atlanta, Knoxville, D.C. and Japan. He returned to Memphis more than 20 years ago and found a path to elected office.
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The War for Peace: Mayoral candidate Michelle McKissack wants a safer Memphis for all
Michelle McKissack, who hopes to become the first woman to be mayor of Memphis, remembers growing up in a city where crime was not a constant concern.
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August 2023
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Paul Young says MLGW plan needs time. (And maybe more money.)
Memphis Mayoral contender Paul Young also talked on “Behind The Headlines” about “stopping the bleeding” from violent crime as the next mayor’s top priority of the next mayor.
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Walking with Willie Herenton as he makes another bid for mayor
Memphis mayoral candidate Willie Herenton remains certain voters will propel him back into the office he held for five terms between 1992 and 2009 and that his hold on the electorate is still near complete.
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‘Responsibility to give back’ drives Gibson’s mayoral run
Memphis mayoral candidate J.W. Gibson says that as a “businessman” he would bring accountability to the city’s highest office, and that he believes he has “a responsibility to take Memphis to a different level.”
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