Another Ford rises, Herenton re-elected

Published: October 4, 2007, 11:19 pm

Tags: black mayors, black political corruption, corporate whore, edmund ford jr, edmund ford sr, harold ford jr, harold ford sr, memphis, memphis mayoral race, politics, race, tennessee, tennessee politics, willie herenton, black voters

Another Ford made his mark Thursday night in Memphis as the returns trickled in from the board of elections. Edmund Ford Jr, cousin of the imfamous Harold Ford Jr, the worst corporate whore in the history of the Congressional Black Caucus, was coming in first in his District 6 City Council race. He faces a run-off with Dr. James Ketchings. A Ford with bad timing, Edmund Jr is running to replace his daddy on the council, a funeral director with a penchant for accepting bribes. It seems that Edmund Sr has been indicted, along with another council colleague, in a federal bribery probe separate from the one his brother, former State Senator John Ford, was caught up in. Also in today’s news, it seems that former Congressman Harold Ford Sr’s right to vote is being called into question. The elder Ford, the first African American elected to congress from Tennessee since reconstruction, is now a corporate lobbyist and fixer, has been living full-time in Florida

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