Posted by M. Wright | Filed in: Media
Autoegocrat has a post about the latest Wendi Thomas column, which takes to task the plethora of candidates from last year’s “overcrowded primary race for the Ninth District Congressional seat.”
Writes Thomas,
And wasn’t it frustrating that so many were willing and ready to leave Memphis for more prestigious pastures out east?
I just have one little question for the esteemed columnist: does Baltimore count as “more prestigious pastures out east,” or is that different?
Yes, people with political aspirations need to start serving locally before they can be taken seriously for national offices. Thomas has a good point; it just happens that she’s the wrong person to make it.
Do you hear what I’m saying, Wendi?
Bueller?
July 19th, 2007 at 8:24 am
Does Harold Ford Jr. count ?
July 19th, 2007 at 8:34 am
Zing!
July 19th, 2007 at 8:51 am
If not her, then who else? She’s the mainstay CA columnist, and much to her credit, her columns have been more focused on improving the city since her jaunt to Baltimore.
July 19th, 2007 at 9:48 pm
Mick– I hate to defend Wendi. I REALLY do. But the Sun was a big step up–from a careerist perspective. For whatever reasons she came back to Memphis. More money? Maybe. But it wasn’t just a money thing.
July 20th, 2007 at 4:50 am
I’m not saying it wasn’t a good career move; I’m just saying it makes her criticism ironic.
July 20th, 2007 at 8:50 am
For whatever reasons she came back to Memphis. More money?
Pfffft. Please. She came back because she was scared, plain and simple. Read what she wrote.
July 20th, 2007 at 12:13 pm
That is SO great, Mick!
Not that I had a lot of respect for her before she left…but when she came back to Memphis…because she couldn’t handle being in a big city…I completely lost all interest in anything she has to say. I still can’t believe the CA hired her back!