I’m surprised Shelby County had a GOP Mayor. Now I’m reading the rats had in the past struggled to win on the county level there?
Well, that was the GOP areas outside the city of Memphis. Now it’s so that Memphis has a White Dem Mayor and the county a Black Dem Mayor. They did have a Black Dem Mayor of the county before, A.C. Wharton, but he chucked the job to run for city Mayor. He was a disaster and lost to the White guy (he won in 2011 with 60% of the vote, got just 22% in 2015).
I haven’t heard much about Strickland’s tenure, though, only that he’s probably slightly more moderate than his predecessors.
As for Lee Harris, he’s not a moonbat going by his Senate record, but I doubt he’ll be much more than mediocre unless he plans to move rightward.
The slickest pol around used to be “King Willie” Herenton, the longtime almost 20-year Mayor of Memphis. He played footsie with anyone and everyone, including using White Republicans for their votes (to scare them away from the Ford Family, which tried to get control of the whole city, and Herenton opposed them), to keep himself in office. I think it would’ve been amusing to have seen him in Congress instead of the execrable Cohen. I surmised he might’ve voted perhaps 50% right in Congress. Even Junior Ford was going close to 40% (the only reason why he was remotely competitive statewide).