Hornet's Nests

Dell Gill set out an email that said essentially I am an idiot who doesn't know what I am talking about. About many things this can be said to be undeniably true. In this case he is wrong.

Let's see, Roscoe lost because he spent 50% of the time campaigning in East Memphis. Okay, I'll take your word on that. Unfortunately, he did this with a man who has a decided lack of charisma for inspring people, Jim Strickland. I like Jim because he helped bail Mike Kernell out several times, but a man that is inspitational and willmotivate people in working class white neighborhoods to get out and vote for a black candidate? No.

You say that it was North Memphis blacks who lost him the election. Hmm, could it be because there was no mail outs to any of these districts? You do a mail out and they would have known that Roscoe Dixon is a black man who just happens to have a name that sounds like a Dukes of Hazzard fan.

Roscoe never did door to door or anything in my district in 2004. I know a lot of people consider the University District East Memphis, it ain't. East Memphis starts at Oak Court. The people in the neighborhoods near mine are closer to Mid-Town then East Memphis. Come to Mid-Town and give people a reason to vote for you.

I don't get it. When you see a canidate for office or people you know are on his campaign and you tell them, hey, we are doing door to door for the X campaign, save your money and just give us some literature and a quick explanation and we'll do it for you, you would expect to get some information, right?

A black can win county wide. Witness AC Wharton. How did he win? He outworked his opponents, took nothing for granted, and told the detractors within his campaign to shut it and get in line. If you don't follow this example, you are doomed for failure every time.