Add to your list of Democratically run governments of large cities, my city of Phoenix whose Mayor, Phil Gordon,was recently voted the best Mayor in North America! A lot of Phoenicians, however, are taking issue with that, given his lackadasical stance on illegal immigration (the worst problem we have in Arizona right now).
We also have a Democratic Governor, Janet Napolitano, who has been mentioned as a possible running mate for Obama.
As a native Memphian who still has a large extended family there and loves the city, I believe the problems the city has resulting from poor leadership do not fall along party lines. I see them as the result of a very large underclass being deceived into keeping corrupt, incompetents in power, because they think those leaders have a lot in common with them (just by being the same ethnicity) and empathy (they feel their pain), when in fact it is obvious that for the Mayor and his cronies, it is all about power and money and keeping the underclass well, "under".
How many more years under this type of management can the city of Memphis survive, especially with its tax base leaving in droves, remains to be seen. My hope is that the people responsible for electing these bozos wake up and realize that, by continually keeping them in power, they are their own worst enemy!! Meanwhile, a lot of tax payers (Black and White), will continue to "vote with their feet!!"
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