Posted on 01/20/2005 5:35:56 AM PST by Sybeck1
Herenton Defends Selling Home to Administrative Assistant
Memphis Mayor Willie Herenton is defending the sale of a home he owned on Barton to a city employee he gave a $20,000 raise to last year. In a story first reported Wednesday on Memphis Morning News on NewsRadio 600 WREC, Herenton says Tonia Jackson's family has been a friend of his for years and there was nothing inappropriate about the sale of the home for $75,000. Jackson got the raise from Herenton hiking her salary to $61,500. She bought the home from Herenton five months later. Jackson works in the Public Services and Neighborhoods division.
Someone refresh my memory. This is many years ago, but is Herenton the same Memphis politician who, when caught in an alleged sexual impropriety, defended himself by saying he was just "acting out his manhood"?
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