Mayor Herenton: Are you kidding me?
Willie Herenton isn’t going anywhere. There go my July 10th Memphis Independance Day party plans.
Myron Lowery and Herenton are having a “bigger desk” contest and the city of Memphis is the one who suffers for it.
Herenton has said repetedly he “wants to go out on his own terms”. He had a chance to do that. He just won an election he didn’t want to run in, for an office he doesn’t want to hold, for a city that doesn’t want him as Mayor. He decided to resign to allow enough time to prepare for his upcoming defeat by Steve Cohen. I didn’t make him resign. The city council wasn’t going to force him to resign. Now the city council may try and force him to abide by his original resignation date of July 10th.
Willie loves a fight and now he’s got one. The city council may give him a pass on this one, but when he tries to extend it AGAIN, past July 31st, I expect Lowery and the other non-cronies on the council to come out swinging.
