Wednesday, August 12, 2009
Politics / Woods Kyle Snuggles Up to Bill Morris in Campaign for Governor
Posted by Jeff Woods on Wed, Aug 12, 2009 at 8:37 AM
Does anyone else think it's strange that the Shelby County co-chair for Jim Kyle's campaign for governor is Bill Morris? Morris helpfully served as the emcee of Kyle's little campaign kickoff yesterday, and he appears in the above TV report praising the senator as an upright dude.
"You know the thing that's been his hallmark?" Morris asks. "Ethics. He's never wavered once in his public persona."
Pith can't resist pointing out the irony of Morris holding himself up as a character judge. While the former Shelby County mayor was running for governor in 1994, the Commercial Appeal ran a series of articles detailing 100 times between 1987-1994 that he used prison inmates to cater political and personal events. The TBI investigated Morris, and a grand jury indicted him on six felony and three misdemeanor counts. The indictments were later quashed as part of what remains a mysterious set of circumstances, but the scandal doomed Morris' gubernatorial campaign and cleared the way for Phil Bredesen's nomination.
Also see the Commercial Appeal ... Memphis Flyer .... Memphis Daily News.
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