The man who says he's God's gift to Memphis wants to protect us?? This shows how arrogant and self-centered Herenton is. His leadership making a difference?? To who?
This city has fallen on very hard times and Herenton has done NOTHING. He hasn't done anything positive since being re-elected. Memphis' crime rate is getting worse, our education system isn't getting any better, and he wants to close several libraries and community centers to save money. What about the children who need those libraries and centers?? Money is the only thing that Herenton cares about. He's hurting Memphis. Not protecting it. Memphis needs protection from him. Chumney or Morris can offer that.

He is using political blackmail.  Give me what I want and I will  step down as Mayor.
Either way, Memphis is still in trouble if Willie is leading anything.

Memphis Mayor Willie Herenton said this morning he ran for re-election because he was afraid of what competitors Carol Chumney and Herman Morris would do to the city.

My lord...what could they possibly do that is worse than anything Herenton has done (or not done) for this city!  That is laughable!  

I can't wait to hear all those Herenton supporters opinions of this!  LOL

"Quite frankly, in the last election, you had a number of candidates that, quite frankly, I was extremely fearful of any if those individuals would have taken the helm of this city. They're just simply not equipped, and so I took it as a responsibility to continue with leadership that was making a difference..." Herenton said.

They are not equipped?  And what have YOU done Oh Exalted Wee Willie with your equipment...other than sleep with strippers and father children out of wedlock?  

When I first heard what Willie said I thought it was a joke. But I guess the joke is on the people of Memphis. I honestly can't believe he was re-elected. Who voted for this nut? Carol Chumney isn’t qualified? My dog could run this city better than ole Willie!

King Willie has divine guidence......then maybe We Memphians are not worthy. I have not seen anything remotely worth while that he has done. It is just funny that the people of Memphis let him slither into  the MCS run it down and then give him the key to the city.  I do believe the plague of locusts was sent  down by God as a wake up call also!

Willie's logic doesn't even make sense.  How could he be protecting Memphis by winning the election, then resigning a few months later?  Coming from Willie, that definition of "protection" doesn't come as much of a surprise.

Go Willie Go...Mongo for Mayor at least we can party like  a rock star.....

Please explain to me what is the Mayor protect us from, what he's saying makes no sense to me,Dr Herenton sir" we meaning the citizens of Memphis need a Mayor to run the day to day business of the city,we do not want you to protect us from people such as Chumney or Morris-we voted for leadership and for you to strengthen the social,physical and economic infrastrucure of Memphis and to help with public Safety;all you have manage to do is alienate us your constituents.It is the voters job to protect Memphis from candidates such as Carol Chumney and Herman Morris not yours. "Memphis wakeup"!

Will citizen of this great city please stand up and tell our beloved Mayor whom we voted in office to do a job for us that he is triping""!

I would really like to know what we need protection from?! If we need protection it's from King Willie what has he improved in Memphis please some one enlighten me? What worse job could either Carol Chumney or Herman Morris do? At least those two are not arrogant and self centered they may of had a solution for all this crime in Memphis I mean everytime you turn the news on you see a gunshoot victim, or a murder or a rape, home invasions, aggravated assaults, I mean what plans does Willie have to stop this? So far I havent seen a thing I hear alot of hot air coming out of his mouth with no results. So please spare Memphis with all your excuses on why you were made to run for Mayor this time, give it up we dont want you with the key to the City anymore, ENough is Enough!!!!!

Another narcissistic, grandiose, statement by wee willie about how great he is! He is delusional about how important he is. The more statements he makes the more he proves it.  The man is becoming increasingly scary by the day!

The first thing we need protection from is Wee Willie.  Let's hope his political blackmail doesn't work.  I would rather keep the idiot in office as mayor than allow him to further destroy what is left of Memphis education.  

Memphis is such a joke to the rest of the country.  I hear and read digs about this whole situation like it's a black version of the Dukes of Hazard.....Boss Hog is running the show with all his little henchmen.  It's hard to believe that people can't see the forrest for the trees with regard to Wee Willie.

mnshadow53 you are right. I am writing from Georgia. I hate to see what is going on in Memphis. It is very untrue that everywhere is as bad as it is in Memphis. Yes, there is crime everywhere. However, Memphis is unique and sad. I do not want to be involved but it is so facinating to see what happens next.  Your Mayor is like a disgusting infected sore in your city. Just look at his press conference yesterday. He is repulsive. The statement that he made concerning "Memphis is experiencing the best prosperity it has had in 16 years" is a bold faced lie. Just look around the city. Mall of Memphis - gone. Liberty land - gone. Hickory Ridge Mall - almost gone. Hickory Hill dying. Wal-Mart is closing on American Way and as I said before Wal-Mart's never close. I do not know what to tell yall, it is just sad that he is able to get away with the silliness that he gets away with. Basically, it is all about greed. He is getting older. Probably he is living beyond his means. His retirement money for being mayor is only going to be 50k after taxes. No more bodyguards. So, if he gets the school superintendent job that is a lot more cheese. At first, he thought that he could slide on into the position on the down low. Then, it got the media's attention about the retirement BS. So, he arranged a backdoor so that he would not be left out in the cold if the school job did not come through he could still have his job as the mayor. People started questioning why he would give up the job in the first place only after a few months and wasted all that money by running, then he came up with the BS about being afraid about the other candidates. All of this is BS. Do not believe a word that comes out of the man's mouth. In a nutshell, he wants more money by becoming school superintendent, it is not about the kids because he can help the kids as mayor if he was interested in their welfare. There is no corporate job waiting for him after he leaves office. No one would have him. This is it.

The mayor is using the oldest trick in the book. It's called the mind games, or smoke and mirrors trick. The bottom line is Mayor Herenton won the election, because there was no competition. Matter of fact there was no competition, and Mayor Herenton is no better than his competition.

You were re-elected due to your supporters, and then some of the voters, voted for you, because of your skin color. that is how you got re-elected, and that is how you won the election. Plus the fact of the matter is, those voters that were undecided, or unsure voted for you, cause you were the ONLY logical choice.

What you have here is a man that has a huge ego, giving Memphians, his conditions or ultimatums for stepping down as Mayor. He says, " I won't step down unless you give me the Superintendent  job." Which everybody knows that he would not step down as Mayor of Memphis, whether his heart is in the right place for the children in the Memphis school system.

It's all a bunch of pie in the sky, coupled with smoke and mirrors. We have these so called leaders in the city that are not qualified to be the Mayor, run for the Mayor job, sit on the school board, or sit on the city council.

While we watch the city struggle with the same old problems from the past, poor economy, no jobs,corrupt leaders from the top down, cooked books or city financial woes, due to their inability to either stop stealing money from those budgets or wasting it.

Mayor fixed the problems that have always  existed, start with that before you start making demands on the city about being the next Superintendent. Frankly speaking, if you could not help solve the city problems, what makes you think you could even begin to solve the Memphis City School problems? Think about that before you start placing demands on the city. Oh, I did not forget to mention, that we still have crime too?

The mayor is using the oldest trick in the book. It's called the mind games, or smoke and mirrors trick. The bottom line is Mayor Herenton won the election, because there was no competition. Matter of fact there was no competition, and Mayor Herenton is no better than his competition.

You were re-elected due to your supporters, and then some of the voters, voted for you, because of your skin color. that is how you got re-elected, and that is how you won the election. Plus the fact of the matter is, those voters that were undecided, or unsure voted for you, cause you were the ONLY logical choice. I know they probably thought, since you have been holding the Mayor's seat this long and you were still screwing up, those voters decided to give you another shot at it

What you have here is a man that has a huge ego, giving Memphians, his conditions or ultimatums for stepping down as Mayor. He says, " I won't step down unless you give me the Superintendent  job." Which everybody knows that he would not step down as Mayor of Memphis, whether his heart is in the right place for the children in the Memphis School system.

It's all a bunch of pie in the sky, coupled with smoke and mirrors. We have these so called leaders in the city that are not qualified to be the Mayor, run for the Mayor's job, sit on the school board, or sit on the city council.

While we watch the city struggle with the same old problems from the past, poor economy, no jobs, high taxes,corrupt leaders from the top down, cooked books or city financial woes, due to their inability to either stop stealing money from those budgets or wasting it.

Mayor fix the problems that have always existed and plagued the city, start with that before you start placing demands on the city about being the next Superintendent. Frankly speaking, if you could not help solve those city problems I mentioned above.
What makes you think you could even begin to solve the Memphis City School problems?

Just because you were the Super back in the day, does not mean you can just bull doze you way back in that position.  So, think about that before you start placing demands on the city. Oh, by the way. I did not forget to mention, that we still have a HIGH crime problem too.

If anyone believes that Herenton cares about the people of Memphis, the crime problem, the schools, children or anything else concerning Memphis you are just as delusional as the people that voted for him. It is all about the dollar, money, moolah, greenbacks and Herenton! Yall need to wake up! He has had 16 years to make a difference in Memphis. If Rudy Gulliani and turn New York City around and other Mayors and change their cities how come Herenton could not do the same in 16 years. He did not have the desire or the motivation.

School Superintendent pays 100K more

If enough Memphis residents email 60 Minutes  60m@cbsnews.com and shine the National attention on him perhaps during the next 4 years he may do some good. Show just how ugly he behaves, bring some heat on him. Start a chain letter within the community. It cannot hurt, doing nothing will only let things get worse.
60m@cbsnews.com

Due to his antics, there had been national attention on willie for a long time.   He had already ruined Memphis, and made the city a topic of jokes all over the country,  when ‘the MAJORITY’ re-elected him.  That would make it obvious that these voters do not care what willie does, or does not do. They are mindless puppets and will go along with him, no matter what.  The city has one hope…willie might self-destruct. Judging from his recent babbling and behavior, that may happen soon.

Hey Dover, we can only hope wee willie will self destruct sooner rather than later!  

Shadow - with the way he is acting now, one wish and one prayer should do it!

I'm convinced (again) that this man truly has a mental problem.

Yes! This is a real tragedy for the people who have back him because of the motive behind his actions (strange!). Maybe the klan/goverment is behind this latest media display?

Willie's comments in the paper today PROVE that he is a dishonest man.  He knew that he would not hold office for the term he was ELECTED to serve.  If that isn't dishonest I don't know what is and his intentions were not to stay in office for this term all along and he kept that a secret.  Do we really want him controlling the school board with our children's lives and education at stake?  A dishonest /conniving/ deceitful leader?  I don't want my children looking up to a man like that.  MEMPHIANS need to step up and get mad!! He is playing ALL of us like puppets.  He needs to step down and let somebody have the reigns that wants to do something to help us all.  We have the highest property taxes and sales tax around!  Maybe because he can't read a financial statement???  Or balance his own checkbook, let alone the City's!!! Crime is out of control and these robbers/muggers and thieves are fearless because they know they can get away with it!!   Please Lord save us from this man and send us a real leader............Not a puppet master.

gmoney2u said:
Maybe the klan/goverment is behind this latest media display?
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gmoney - what a stupid remark/question!  It’s difficult to believe even you could be that asinine.  It is wee willie’s face those tv cameras are focused on. It is  wee willie making the deceitful, ignorant, self-serving,  (unbalanced) decisions/statements.  AND……  It is wee willie who is  making a fool of himself and those who voted for him. I'm sure you still think he's great. Rest assured, not even you can admire wee willie as much as he admires himself. He's an idiot and is doing a great job proving it.

Gmoney2u said:  Yes! This is a real tragedy for the people who have back him because of the motive behind his actions (strange!). Maybe the klan/goverment is behind this latest media display?

I agree with Dover!  Have you lost your mind?  Gmoney, do you need me to call Fox Mulder?  It sounds like you are spiraling into a conspiracy theory.  Let's open an X-File LOL

The clan doesn't usually cozy up to black folks and the government would cozy up to wee willie for what?  

How about another try at a recall. FORCE him out! Let him know to quit messing with the people of Memphis. No more of Wee Willie games. Then a rejection from the school board to eliminate that job and what will he do then. No official position for him, maybe he will move away and Memphis  can go forward. So let's go Memphis get on track and shove this bum to the side of the road!!!!!!!!!!!

In reading all the post lately I'm sadden my some of the remark that were made about our town, Yes our town, it become apparent that there are a lot of angry people in our town. some people are mad with the Mayor others are mad at the voter who put him in office and some are just plain mad, it has become apparent that what we in Memphis need is "Change" we need a change of Guard with our city official whom we have put in office and have not deliver on there promises, all it has done is made our beautiful city divisive and racially divided, well I for one will not laid down without at lease trying to find way to bring our citizen whom I greatly respect and have lived my hole life with to find a solution to our towns problems, but the citizen of Memphis must work together we must all be team player,beleive it or not there are quite a few African Americans who feel the same disgust you feel to see city official involve in criminal acts, it down right embarrassing; however irate remarks will not solve our town problem only make it worst. Memphian have been through harder times then these and manage to survive, but things will only get done through communication, some of the black community must embrace that our city official have failed us and have not deliver on there promises, we must hold them accountable for there failures; we must embrace that they have fail our school system , public safety, moral obligation to our city, citizen and most of all our children and have fallen in the trap of greed, but the good news is we must seek what all American are seeking and that is "Change" with the old guard and in with the real leaders who see Memphis the way all good Memphian see it in the future and place we are all proud of and not embarrass my.
                                       "CHANGE, YES WE CAN"

Welcome to Willie World ! What can I possibly say that hasn't been said ?  He has his followers brain-washed into thinking he is the best thing Memphis has ever had.  BRB.....going to throw up !!!  He was trying to "protect" Memphis from Chumney and Morris ?  Did he ever think of trying to protect us from crime ?  DUH !! And all he can say is: "If you don't like it then leave" !!   Did he ever try to protect us from the criminal politicians (TN Waltz) ?  Who was he protecting when he showed up at a drug bust and blasted the MPD for the way they were treating the thugs ?  Who was he protecting when he backed Joseph Lee while he admitted dealing under the table with Ford ? He has kept us ranked at or near the top in crime since he has been in office. Who was he protecting when the Grizzlies came and the top floor of the Fedex Forum disappeared ($20 million) ? Why can't those who keep voting him in see this ? Blind or brain-washed is all I can figure. He ran this city for 16 loooonnngg years and now he wants to run (ruin) the school system too !  Like we need a school leader who has a child out of wedlock with a woman young enough to be his daughter !!  (Memphis already ranks high in teen pregnancy too)  When I see him on the news, talking about the progress of this city.....what the hell is he talking about ?  Did I miss something ?  If we are making such "progress" then why are people (black & white) moving away from here ?  And just when we thought it was going to end, he decides to blackmail us. He should be charged with "Political Rape" for screwing the citizens of Memphis without our consent !!!  All he is concerned about is his resume and his $$$ !  Wake up Willie World members !!!

This narcissistic pile of sub-human refuse has got to be one of the most delusional, psychotic, egotistical, yet IGNORANT pieces of crap ever spawned! He wants to be school superintendent yet uses phrases like "it ain't about nothing else." Gosh, could we please have our highest educational position filled by an illiterate buffoon like Herenton! He was concerned about Chumney or Morris? Damn straight he was! He knew DAMN WELL either would have made inroads into improving this craphole he's created and destroyed his delusional "legacy." (in his own limited mind) Too late King dip****! You are a disgrace, a fornicating animal, a lying, vomitous mass of dark melanin that doesn't deserve to call yourself an African-American. You're nothing but a parasite, sucking on a leech, attached to the community you claim to represent. Please just go away and die.

Hey Dover/Mnshadow53 I was just kidding calm down, there's no need to grow horns on this one it was just a jokey joke!
                                                   P.S. Hello to all my HATERS!!!!

gmoney – I’ll take your word that you were joking only because I can’t believe anyone, even you, can continue to make excuses.  I do find it sad that you can joke about the statements and behavior of an ego maniac. He anoints himself a ‘savior’ as he intentionally continues to drag Memphis down.  In my opinion, more fitting descriptions, are narcissist and irrational.

In my world HATERS = INTELLIGENT REALISTS...the opposite of mindless puppets.

The Mayor also lives in a dream state. He made comments about the businesses he was responsible for bringing into the city. He gave himself high marks about re-developing  downtown and the riverfront.

Mayor, while you may have contributed to those accomplishments, and while you are patting yourself on the back, think about the flip side of the coin too. When the FedEx Forum was built, the books were cooked, and some added additions to the parking garage NEVER got constructed, OOPS.What about the money that came up missing on the FedEx Forum project? Did you find it, or have your Auditors found it? What happen to all of those people you employed and paid 100k+ salaries? What are they doing to resolve these sort of messy unethical business practices?

I would be willing to bet, that by fiscal year end, every budget
managed by the county and the city will remain unbalanced, with suspect expenditures, and/or  monies unaccounted for or missing. I'm not even going to mention the Memphis City School Budget woes.

While the Mayor is patting himself on the back about bringing businesses into Memphis, think about the number of businesses that are re-locating out of Memphis to more rural areas, not even in the same vicinity as this city. Matter of fact, think about the businesses that are leaving Memphis and relocating to other MAJOR cities altogether.

Granted, Herenton, you inherited some of these problems the city has been plagued with for years from the last  Mayor, and you've had 16 years to knock a dent in a vast majority of them too.

If you had played your cards right, you could have showed and proved, by  putting forth some effort to help manage or resolve some of these major issues plaguing the city, and you may have been able to slither into the Super job paying  a 200+
salary a year. Your mouth got you into trouble, along with the sexual misconduct you were accused of when your were the old Super.

Memphis has so much hidden potential, and yet we have people who would occupy positions of influence that can go to work everyday, and not even care
about putting forth the effort or care enough to help push this city forward into a more positive light.

It's amazing, tourists come to Memphis to see Elvis, MLK Memorial,
Beale street, and go back to their homes, some not knowing how messy this city really is.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/23822398/ Herenton mentioned Memphis prosperity. People migrate to where there is hope and a potential of a brighter future. I do believe there is an exodus away from Memphis? I may be wrong.

If you have family or friends in any of the cities in mentioned in this article http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/23822398/ go visit them and then return home to Memphis. I guarantee you will become depressed. How the roads are in Memphis are in poor condition by comparision. How in these other cities you see new construction and new businesses springing up everywhere. Perform Monster.com and Careerbuilder job searches on Fort Worth and Atlanta Customer Service Jobs and do the same on Memphis and look at how many positions are available.  Yes, he made downtown look nice and made downtown developers richer. But what has he done for yall lately. What corporations are opening plants/factories in Memphis? If Northwest and FedEx and Nike and fast food chains go bye bye, Memphis is sunk. Memphis needs a Mayor that will go to Western Digital or Unisys or United Steel and say bring your business to Memphis we have good people and your business will thrive there. A mayor that can impress these business people to bring their companies to the city and provide good paying jobs to families. Raise the standard of living for communities in the city. Not a mayor that allows crime to run rampant and make the few people that have wealth to feel insecure in Memphis that the decide to leave and take their wealth elsewhere. Or alienates business people with his arrogance and ignorance. Wake up Memphis... I believe yall know this already but you need to do something about it. Sitting on your hands just makes matters worse.

mayor is big dummy in memphis. all he care about is self. four more of hell in memphis. we need new mayor in memphis.

Hey all! Someone on the CA blog designed this shirt. Buy one today and wear it to show the mayor how THANKFUL we are (not) that he protected us!

http://www.cafepress.com/littlewillie

Oh that is too funny!  

Hey, Catgirl and mnshadow, maybe E.D. is the reason behind all of this. If we could give little willie the power to be a "big willie" maybe that would solve all the problems. I think he is just having a little problem "getting the barge into the harbor", if you know what I mean. Lets order him some Viagra. Maybe that will solve all the problems. Hey! I just solved two problems at once!

I don't know if the cause is E.D.  He's got way too many kids running around for that to be the case.