Best Rabble Rousers

When Mayor Megan Barry resigned, it set off a scramble to replace her, with a number of candidates rushing forward to challenge then-Vice Mayor David Briley. The question, though, was when? May 1, with the transit referendum? August, with the state primary? Attorney Jamie Hollin believed that Metro’s legal department had been misinterpreting a 2010 charter amendment and that the election couldn’t wait until the fall. So he and candidate Ludye Wallace filed suit and won, and then Hollin and fellow barrister Daniel Horwitz proceeded to win at every step of the appeals process, including a unanimous, thumping victory before the Tennessee Supreme Court. The pair has also been the legal muscle behind the fight to get a community-oversight-board referendum on the November ballot. Is there anyone else you’d want on your side right now when trying to fight City Hall? I don’t think so. STEVE CAVENDISH

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