New polling data shows opinions on mayor, police chief
Mayor Paul Young stands with interim Chief C.J. Davis as she addresses the Memphis City Council. About 17% of those surveyed had never heard of Young, and 35% had no idea who Davis is. (Patrick Lantrip/The Daily Memphian file)
New polling data shows how Memphis residents feel about Memphis Mayor Paul Young and Memphis Interim Police Chief C.J. Davis.
It also shows that at least a significant amount of a 500-person sample of likely Shelby County voters don’t know who they are.
The data also offers a snapshot into how people feel about the city’s new chief executive who has been on the job for seven full months and offers insight into how people view Davis, the interim chief awaiting a vote on her reapppointment.
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Samuel Hardiman
Samuel Hardiman is an enterprise and investigative reporter who focuses on local government and politics. He began his journalism career at the Tulsa World in Tulsa, Oklahoma, where he covered business and, later, K-12 education. Hardiman came to Memphis in 2018 to join the Memphis Business Journal, covering government and economic development. He then served as the Memphis Commercial Appeal’s city hall reporter and later joined The Daily Memphian in 2023. His current work focuses on Elon Musk’s xAI, regional energy needs and how Memphis and Shelby County government spend taxpayer dollars.
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