Lee Harris

So how can you keep saying a blatant lie because research shows that's a thing that never happened in any of the states that raised the wage? And I'll

tell you, so I worked as the deputy chief of staff for our county mayor, former Senator Lee Harris, and now on city council.

And in both city and county government, I have worked and actually passed legislation to raise our wages to around $20 an hour.

and are full-time employees to 40,000 a year.

With Marsha Blackburn and Kane the wrestler.

Oh, my goodness.

My county mayor.

And that foolish Tim Burchett.

Is also the Shelby County's chief public defender.

She was previously a senior policy advisor and deputy chief of staff to Shelby County Mayor Lee Harris.

She won the Democratic primary with 69% of the vote.

Massam Abidi, an independent candidate.

Um, I remember we were knocking doors in Boxtown with Memphis Communities Against Pollution and with Tennessee For All and a bunch of other groups down there.

And when I came up to a porch, and it was a Sunday, folks were chilling out after church, and I was-- and they were like, "Well, what do you hear? What are you asking us to do?" And I said, "Can you sign this petition to Shelby County Mayor Lee Harris asking him to shut down the illegal turbines that Elon Musk is using to power his data centers and that are deeply polluting the air in Southwest Memphis, a community that has dealt with a massive amount of pollution over generations, over generations of environmental racism in an industry." And what they told me, they're like, "That's not gonna do anything.

What we need to do is we need to all go march on his office." And so I think what we're finding here is folks are not just clear on what they want and what they deserve, but what it will take to make it happen.

And what it's gonna take to make it happen is both participation in sort of the general basics of the democracy, and it might be a democracy that's under deep threat and even in decline.

By the way, there is huge drama on the Democrat side of the aisle.

Steve Cohen, Paul Young, Lee Harris, none of those guys have endorsed Justin Pearson for Congress.

Very interesting situation brewing there in the Democrats.

A lot of folks in the Democrat Party here locally, which, again, from a cultural perspective, they are a bit more conservative.