The Memphis Police Association (MPA) and the Shelby County Deputy Sheriffs Association conferred their official endorsements on two candidates for major office — Amy Weirich, the incumbent District Attorney General, and City Councilman Worth Morgan who is running for Shelby County Mayor. Both are Republicans.
There were separate announcement ceremonies at different locations on Wednesday. The first announcement at MPA headquarters on Jefferson, was for Weirich. After expressing thanks to the two organizations for their vote of confidence, she hastened to note a piece of news that she thought relevant to her campaign against Democratic D.A. candidate Steve Mulroy.
“We saw last night something that we rarely get an opportunity to see and that is consequences of potential decisions that we might make,” Weirich said. “In San Francisco last night, the district attorney was recalled. And make no mistake — the district attorney’s platform in San Francisco is and has been identical to that of my opponent, making statements that he would not seek the transfer of juveniles to adult court, meaning that murderers, rapists, armed robbers, armed carjackers, armed kidnappers, would face no more than two years in prison.”
Weirich was asked what her position was toward recent anti-abortion legislation by the General Assembly attaching criminal penalties to doctors who might violate provisions of the very restrictive new law.
“All that is hypothetical,” Weirich said. “You would first have to assume that doctors in this community would break the law. And then you would have to assume that that criminal conduct was reported to law enforcement. And then you have to assume that an investigation is conducted and that there is enough information to make a charge against someone. Too many hypotheticals, too many hoops to jump through, and that’s not the universe I live in. I don’t make conjecture statements about what I could or should do. We deal in facts.”
Morgan’s event was at his Park Avenue headquarters in East Memphis. He, too, expressed gratitude for the endorsements. “Together these two organizations represent almost 4,000 members of law enforcement in our community,” he said. “They are on the streets, they are in our communities, they are in our neighborhoods every day 24/7/365. They know what’s going on. They know the issues that we’re facing, they know and see and interact with the victims and the perpetrators on a daily basis. And I ask that you trust their judgment, you trust their intuition, you trust their endorsement of my campaign for Shelby County Mayor.”
Regarding his opponent, incumbent Democrat Lee Harris, Morgan said, “We’ve got a current county mayor that is not taking meetings with people, and people don’t want to take meetings with him. You can’t get it done.”
