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Amid Festiveness, Presumed Frontrunner Wharton Pulls His Mayoral Petition |
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Written by Jackson Baker
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Friday, 21 August 2009 15:46 |
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What many people imagine to be the pivotal event of the
mayoral-campaign season so far — at least symbolically — occurred
Thursday.
No, not the photo-op in City Hall, where Mayor Pro Tem Myron Lowery
used the big pull-down screen in the 7th-floor conference room and
tuned in a nationwide “video conference” on health care presided over
by President Obama.
And no, not the pulling of petitions by one Roderick Ford, unrelated
to the famous Fords of political provenance, or by city councilman Joe
Brown, unrelated to the famous Joe Brown of TV jurisprudence.
Thursday was the day that designated mayoral frontrunner A C Wharton
led a parade of supporters to the new offices of the Election
Commission at 3rd and Washington and pulled his petition. It was an
event that attracted only slightly less attention from the media than
the current Shelby County mayor will merit if, as many expect, he is
sworn in as city mayor at some point after the forthcoming special
election of October 15th. |
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