Ep. 651 - Bye Amy! Memphis just voted out the worst DA in America.
The Breakdown with Shaun King
The North Star
4.8 • 12.6K Ratings
🗓️ 5 August 2022
⏱️ 11 minutes
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Summary
This needs to be a national story! In the Deep South, voters in Memphis, Tennessee showed up in a MAJOR way to oust conservative DA Amy Weirich for a progressive reformer and civil rights attorney. It's a HUGE deal.
And it wasn't even close. Amy strangely made her campaign about ME, of all people, running ads blasting me, and my support of her opponent, but voters knew better and saw right through it, thankfully.
Here's the thing - when a progressive loses somewhere, it's all over the news. We need them to now keep that same energy for Memphis.
Shout out to the new DA, Steve Mulroy, who ran a great campaign. And shout out to the voters and volunteers in Memphis who made it happen. Proud of you!
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| 0:21.5 | Today is a good news episode of The Breakdown and I've learned this lesson over the years. |
| 0:26.8 | When you have a victory, you have to celebrate it. |
| 0:31.4 | And last night we defeated one of the worst district attorneys in America. |
| 0:37.1 | The conservative Republican district attorney of Memphis don't ask me how she ever got |
| 0:42.6 | elected, but she is awful. |
| 0:46.4 | And Memphis is one of the only cities in America. |
| 0:48.4 | I think the only big city in America that has an eight year term for their DA. |
| 0:53.5 | But you now, Memphis, you now have a new DA, Steve Mulroy, who is a genuinely good man, |
| 0:59.8 | a civil rights attorney, a voting rights attorney, which is very important there for Memphis. |
| 1:04.9 | And I'll tell you why. |
| 1:06.6 | But I want to play you the ad that the DA there ran against me. |
| 1:14.3 | I don't think I've ever been to Memphis. |
| 1:17.3 | And yet you're going to make me your primary focus. |
| 1:20.7 | It was a losing strategy for her from the very beginning. |
| 1:24.5 | Let me unpack and explain it. |
| 1:26.2 | This is Sean Kane and you're listening to The Breakdown. |
| 1:47.6 | The DA's race in Memphis is such a huge deal. |
| 1:51.6 | One, Memphis is the deep south. |
| 1:54.9 | And in the deep south last night, a conservative so-called tough on crime DA lost and lost |
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