Nelson: For Paul Manafort and Roger Stone, it all started in Memphis
Paul Manafort and Roger Stone were young, politically ambitious, and determined to advance their careers by coming to Memphis for the Young Republican National Convention in 1977.
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March 2023
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August 2020
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Ten weeks from Election Day, does Biden have a chance in Mid-South?
One convention down, one to go, and one question on many people’s minds: Who’s going to win the presidential election? -
Bradshaw upsets political world with U.S. Senate primary win
Memphian Marquita Bradshaw caught the political world by surprise Thursday, winning the state’s Democratic nomination for U.S. Senate and spending only a fraction of the money that frontrunner James Mackler spent.
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July 2020
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Opinion: How is the Aug. 6 election screwy? Let me count the ways, Part 1
Local elections ought to be straightforward affairs for voters. Here are six ways our leaders always deny us this right – three today and three tomorrow.
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March 2020
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Nelson: Shiloh closed, but two online movies can take us to battle
“Shiloh: Fiery Trial,” the newer film, embodies up-to-date scholarship on the battle and enlists 350 Civil War re-enactors who flesh out the 17-member cast.
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February 2020
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Nelson finds comparisons and contrast between Clinton and Trump
Presidential historian Michael Nelson of Rhodes College has a new book about the Clinton presidency and the former Arkansas governor's two runs for the White House. On The Daily Memphian Politics Podcast, Nelson linked Clinton's influence and time in power to the course that brought Donald Trump to the White House.
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January 2020
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What voters know — and like — about Steve Cohen
Voters of the Ninth District know their congressman sometimes leans toward the outrageous. But he represents his congressional district with passion and commitment and that’s why voters have sent him to Washington seven times.
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September 2019
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Nelson: Enact the ERA and abolish the electoral college? Sure. But do it the right way
Once you start ignoring the Constitution in order to achieve some immediate political goal, you are placing it in jeopardy. The right way to make changes is to follow the rules of the amendment process spelled out in Article V of the document, which has already happened 27 times in our history.
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June 2019
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Nelson: Yeah, no, so ... here’s a possibly annoying column about the English language
Here's a collection of 13 terrific innovations in our language, plus a longer list of major annoyances in contemporary use.
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Nelson: Don’t sell Memphians short when it comes to cross-racial voting
Our history of cross-racial voting calls into question whether Memphis might not be ripe for a redistricting of city council and county commission districts that intentionally makes them racially diverse instead of solidly black or solidly white.
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May 2019
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Nelson: When the ‘silent majority’ was black
In 2019, Black Lives Matter means efforts to “end broken windows policing” and “limit use of force” by officers, among other items on the movement’s “Campaign Zero” agenda. In 1973, Black Lives Matter meant something different.
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Nelson: ‘Charged’ author aims at Shelby County DA, and misses
In her book, legal writer Emily Bazelon tells the story about District Attorney Amy Weirich and her prosecution of Noura Jackson, whose mother was killed in their East Memphis home. Jackson was tried and convicted of second-degree murder; in 2017, her conviction was overturned.
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Nelson: A tale of two Gores
Al Gore somehow managed to be dealt a straight flush — a booming economy, a world at peace, and a popular administration in which he served as vice president for eight years — and play it into a losing hand.
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February 2019
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Nelson: Ernest Withers – flawed but no less a hero
Ernest Withers, the famous Memphis photographer, was also Ernest Withers the informant, a man whose life illustrates Martin Luther King's description of man's dual nature.
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January 2019
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Nelson: Law, politics – and girls’ basketball – in Tennessee
“In the entire history of girls’ high school basketball in Tennessee, no one had ever seen a uterus lying on a basketball court.”
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November 2018
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Nelson: Is Big Shelby back?
Memphians of a certain vintage may recall a time when the rest of Tennessee disparaged us as Big Shelby. It was a backhanded way of expressing East and Middle Tennessee’s resentment of – and, truth be told, our own vaulting pride in – the power wielded by Memphis and Shelby County in the state’s politics and government.
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October 2018
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Blackburn pierces Bredesen with partisan politics
Congresswoman Marsha Blackburn’s partisan attacks appear to be trumping former governor Phil Bredesen’s moderate politics as early voting approaches for the Nov. 6 election for an open U.S. Senate seat.
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