Former Shelby County Commissioner John Willingham spoke at the Dutch Treat Luncheon on Saturday and said he is holding a meeting Wednesday with his exploratory committee, looking into another run for Mayor of Memphis.

Willingham is extremely knowledgeable, and he’s tenacious. Two very admirable qualities. The man has plenty of good things to say, to a fault, because you can hardly get him to shut up; he’s like an encycopedia on tape with no pause button — lots of helpful information, but you don’t necessarily want to read it from cover to cover. My only other complaint about Willingham is that, while he knows what our problems are and is almost unique among Memphis politicians in wanting to address and fix them, his proposed solutions tend to be unconstitutional — turning the Memphis Pyramid into a casino, and instituting a payroll tax being two big examples of that. God bless him, though.

Below is a brief, two-minute video from his very long-winded speech. It’s poor quality, taken with my Canon PowerShot A60, as usual. But it’s cool, and it’s free, so you don’t get to complain.