Tuesday, September 15, 2009
Byrd Announces Run for Shelby County Mayor
Posted by Jackson Baker on Tue, Sep 15, 2009 at 3:10 PM
Byrd, a well-known University of Memphis booster and former state representative from Bartlett, has also run for the 7th District congressional seat and launched a race for county mayor in 2002 before deciding to withdraw.
A list of Byrd supporters circulated by email on Tuesday encompassed a wide range of influential people in Shelby County — running from civil rights luminaries Maxine and Vasco Smith to former county mayor Bill Morris to former MLGW head Larry Papasan to C.M.E. Bishop William N. Graves.
Another Byrd backer, longtime political broker Sidney Chism, is a commission colleague of Malone, who no doubt will unveil her own lengthy list of supporters.
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Harold Byrd is a good guy, but isn't the area that would be controlled by "Shelby County" shrinking? After AC gets elected, it's over for two mayors.
We are going to have a consolidated/Metro government, so who the "county" mayor is will be irrelevant.
If he can manage to arrange for an on-campus stadium for the UofM, then I'll vote for him!
Could be the democrat is making his living off 3000% interest on overdraft fees and other poor taxes. Payday loan places have more ethics than most banks.
One important endorsement not mentioned above is Jackie Welch and his daughter. Welch is a major developer who loves to over-develop commercial and residential areas in the county and has made a big fortune. Go up and down Germantown Parkway in Cordova to see his handiwork. He supports politicians who give him favors.
Only for those Democrat politicians who have taken that whole oath of poverty requirement seriously.
This is GREAT NEWS! Maybe there is light at the end of the tunnel. Im a small business owner with "a dream". My dream quickly diminished when uncle sam's took his hands out of his pockets and has yet to put them back in, seriously! We do the books "by the book", honestly, and for that we have to pay every red cent owed in taxes, it even still after 3 years blows me away. The Byrd Family (Bank of Bartlett...and Connie Rauch) were the ONLY "old school" bankers that took time reviewing our proposal, looked at our application personally, not through a machine, and was JUST AS EXCITED as we were about bringing our store to the community which had never seen anything like it before. The Byrd family, who has lived in Bartlett forever, believes in the good in people, their dreams and would do anything in helping to attain those desires. I cant think of a better person to breathe some morale fortitude back into the community. Harold, you have my complete support and I would love to help in anyway possible!!!! -Amy W. (S.n.S.)
Yes mad_merc it will not happen. First of all I am a homeowner in the U of M area and we are ALL in total opposition to this. And he will be County Mayor he will have no influence over City projects. And second he is a jerk and a pervert he would come into a store that I worked at many years ago that sold "back massagers" and would ask me what else he could use this for. I found him to be disgusting.
Easy there Feisty1...never say never in this city! Although it probably won't ever happen, one can still hope.
As for Byrd, I don't know much about him, nor who else is going to toss a hat in the ring, so I'll just have to wait and see.
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