Title: Cohen: Memphis Has Never Been Split Except When it Was! Post by: BigSkyBob on January 09, 2012, 02:29:19 PM Quote from: "Memphis paper" “Memphis has never been divided,” he said. “Maybe a little sliver up in Frayser that (former Democratic U.S. Reps.) John Tanner and Ed Jones had and there was a little sliver in Parkway Village that (former Republican U.S. Rep.) Don Sundquist had. Other than that, Memphis has always been in one district. This will be the first time that has happened.” "This will be the first time that has happened," by Cohen's own account will be the third time it has happened! Title: Re: Cohen: Memphis Has Never Been Split Except When it Was! Post by: Joe Republic on January 09, 2012, 02:33:34 PM IMPEACH HIM NOW
Title: Re: Cohen: Memphis Has Never Been Split Except When it Was! Post by: Vosem on January 09, 2012, 03:43:29 PM FF
Title: Re: Cohen: Memphis Has Never Been Split Except When it Was! Post by: memphis on January 09, 2012, 04:52:24 PM Parkway Village wasn't even part of Memphis back when Sundquist was in Congress. The old 8th included a little corner of Frayser ( far Northwestern Memphis) for whatever reason. The newly proposed 9th has a huge dagger full of white people in the heart of the city taken out. It's not the same thing at all.
Title: Re: Cohen: Memphis Has Never Been Split Except When it Was! Post by: minionofmidas on January 10, 2012, 05:40:38 AM Parkway Village wasn't even part of Memphis back when Sundquist was in Congress. The old 8th included a little corner of Frayser ( far Northwestern Memphis) for whatever reason. Title: Re: Cohen: Memphis Has Never Been Split Except When it Was! Post by: memphis on January 10, 2012, 09:32:33 AM Parkway Village wasn't even part of Memphis back when Sundquist was in Congress. The old 8th included a little corner of Frayser ( far Northwestern Memphis) for whatever reason. Title: Re: Cohen: Memphis Has Never Been Split Except When it Was! Post by: minionofmidas on January 10, 2012, 09:48:16 AM They weren't so concerned as to consider that necessary. 30k urban Blacks isn't that tiny, anyways.
But "it helps" is just the reason it was left in and aquired the present shape I think, not the reason a jut was created in the first place. I read someplace that the general setup of the 9th being wholly Memphis and the 7th and the 8th splitting the difference is quite old, much older than the current Dem gerry. Title: Re: Cohen: Memphis Has Never Been Split Except When it Was! Post by: memphis on January 10, 2012, 12:46:58 PM 30k urban Blacks isn't that tiny, anyways. Title: Re: Cohen: Memphis Has Never Been Split Except When it Was! Post by: BigSkyBob on January 11, 2012, 01:25:26 AM Parkway Village wasn't even part of Memphis back when Sundquist was in Congress. The old 8th included a little corner of Frayser ( far Northwestern Memphis) for whatever reason. Well, he might not have had a competitive election because he didn't occupy a swing district. And, the reason the district wasn't marginal could be the fact that 30,000 Blacks were added to the Southern edge of the district. Had those 30,000 Frayser folks been removed from his district, and, had 30,000 folks been added from Eastern Shelby county, then, the district would have been more competitive, and, Tanner might have faced a series of strongly contested elections. Quote Not even in 1994. Most years, the GOP didn't bother to field a candidate. That's how safe TN-8 used to be for the Dems. If they were really concerned about shoring up Tanner, they could have given him more than a tiny corner of the city. Apparently, Frayser was enough, until 2010. Title: Re: Cohen: Memphis Has Never Been Split Except When it Was! Post by: minionofmidas on January 11, 2012, 05:52:42 AM 30k urban Blacks isn't that tiny, anyways. Title: Re: Cohen: Memphis Has Never Been Split Except When it Was! Post by: memphis on January 11, 2012, 05:21:08 PM 30k urban Blacks isn't that tiny, anyways. Title: Re: Cohen: Memphis Has Never Been Split Except When it Was! Post by: freepcrusher on January 12, 2012, 04:59:48 PM 30k urban Blacks isn't that tiny, anyways. If Tanner was so entrenched why did he retire in 2010? He probably would have won re-election (albeit by a smaller margin). Title: Re: Cohen: Memphis Has Never Been Split Except When it Was! Post by: Brittain33 on January 12, 2012, 06:01:39 PM 2010 redefined "entrenched" for Democrats. Chet Edwards and that guy in FL-2 whose name I can't be bothered to look up were entrenched through tough elections before, but they went under.
Title: Re: Cohen: Memphis Has Never Been Split Except When it Was! Post by: Filuwaúrdjan on January 12, 2012, 11:11:12 PM 2010 redefined "entrenched" for Democrats. Chet Edwards and that guy in FL-2 whose name I can't be bothered to look up were entrenched through tough elections before, but they went under. By about thirty billion votes in the case of Edwards. Title: Re: Cohen: Memphis Has Never Been Split Except When it Was! Post by: Joe Republic on January 13, 2012, 02:56:57 AM 2010 redefined "entrenched" for Democrats. Chet Edwards and that guy in FL-2 whose name I can't be bothered to look up were entrenched through tough elections before, but they went under. By about thirty billion votes in the case of Edwards. Thirty billion, eh? Old habits sure do die hard in south Texas. Title: Re: Cohen: Memphis Has Never Been Split Except When it Was! Post by: King on January 13, 2012, 02:42:53 PM Clearly Cohen has never been walking in Memphis.
Title: Re: Cohen: Memphis Has Never Been Split Except When it Was! Post by: I'm JewCon in name only. on January 21, 2012, 12:20:22 PM Cohen is an a-hole. I hope he gets primaried.
Title: Re: Cohen: Memphis Has Never Been Split Except When it Was! Post by: memphis on January 21, 2012, 04:13:23 PM Cohen is an a-hole. I hope he gets primaried. |