Not to be a broken record but ya girl is trying to be #LouMayor so please donate if you can and share about the #Shameka4LouisvilleMayor22 Campaign whenever you can! Always donate what you can when you can! No #bday party for me this year due to the #omicronvariant :-( pic.twitter.com/975H8DemFl — ShamekaParrishWright (@Seasoned4u) January 3, 2022 In 1969, Black people made up 13.3% of Jefferson County’s population, but owned 4.6% of the county’s businesses. Today, although the Black population has grown 22.4% its ownership of businesses with employees is 2.4% I have an INTENTIONAL plan to address this...not lip service. — Timothy Findley, Jr. (@TimFindleyJr) January 2, 2022 Thrilled to announce that UAW has thrown its strong support behind my candidacy for Mayor as our campaign
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When media companies cut costs, senior editors are the first to go
Is it racist imaging or shoddy graphics work? It's likely the latter but the entire media market suffers from even a scant trace of the former. I wonder why they didn't use our professional headshots...🤔🤔🤔@WDRBNews pic.twitter.com/ldupshQQZg — Timothy Findley, Jr. (@TimFindleyJr) November 13, 2021 Our media business is filled with underpaid young "journalists" who lack depth of perspective. Nonetheless, this unbalanced imagery is preposterously ignorant. Where is management oversight? Wow. Debating whether this is explicit or implicit bias. Either way, this is a typical narrative. @WDRBNews producers, reporters, editor should all be required to take bias training and someone at the top should apologize for this. https://t.co/ALVum1uk1Y — Sadiqa (@SadiqaReynolds) November 14, 2021 Media companies have cut payrolls so severely over the past decade that news employees
Focused on restoring city safety, David Nicholson jumps into the race for Louisville mayor
The race for Louisville mayor just took a major swerve with the addition of David Nicholson, the Jefferson County Circuit Court Clerk. Sound familiar? His signature in on your driver's license. Nicholson is well-connected to the judicial and law enforcement systems with over 40 years of public service. A grieving family spoke at today's campaign launch, asking Nicholson to end the scourge of gun violence that has taken their 19-year-old son. Nicholson's campaign is based on the restoration of safety on Louisville's streets as the city suffers from the worst homicide rates in its history. Current Louisville Mayor Greg Fischer was elected as an outsider with no government experience but success in business funded by his family. He seems to have few answers as
With Charles Booker jumping to the big leagues, who’ll be the next mayor of Louisville?
Former state representative Charles Booker built an energized following during 2020's racial reckoning protests by telling his story of struggles and hopes. But once he steps outside Jefferson County, people wonder if he is just howling to a smattering of lefties. So why is he running for the U.S. Senate instead of sliding directly into the Louisville mayor's office? Hard to tell. Mr. Booker's plan is to continue growing his base "from the hood to the holler" to unseat Senator Rand Paul. Pundits claim a Booker victory is a real long shot in Trump loving Kentucky, but Charles claims "we proved them wrong." No one has been proved wrong yet. A Booker victory would become that proof but can it actually happen? The voters will
Play stupid games, win stupid prizes
Tonight, as protesters attempted to stop @LMPD from towing a car, a woman threw water at one officer. The officer quickly grabbed her, pushed her to the ground and arrested her. People in the crowd say the officer says she threw a punch. Here’s the video. pic.twitter.com/fMCjxM4qXY — Bailey Loosemore (@bloosemore) July 8, 2020 Courier Journal reporter Bailey Loosemore was embedded with Louisville protesters as they swarmed LMPD officers. The police were having a car removed from a no parking zone near the protest site that has seen one murder and multiple battles with police over the past two months. The reporter's caption is more supportive of the protester claims. First, the type of liquid is unknown. In prior protests, police have had urine and
Facing heat from #BlackLivesMatter, cops, citizens, and business owners, Louisville Mayor Greg Fischer joins me to talk about the city’s unprecedented upheaval
Today would have been Breonna Taylor's 27th birthday. She's dead. On March 13, LMPD officers shot her in her apartment after activating a no-knock warrant in search of someone who was not there. Breonna's boyfriend Kenneth Walker awoke from the police invasion and shot at what he thought were burglars. Police returned fire, wounding Walker and killing Taylor. Thousands of protesters have taken to the streets to honor Breonna in a movement launched following the Minneapolis police killing of George Floyd. Four police officers have been arrested over Floyd's death but none of the Louisville officers have been charged in the killing of Breonna Taylor. Louisville Mayor Greg Fischer appeared on the radio with me tonight to answer questions about the protests, Breonna's
Angela Leet launches mayoral campaign, rips Fischer, says she did not vote for Trump
Metro Louisville council member Angela Leet is running for Louisville mayor. We spoke on the radio shortly after her announcement, covering topics from Greg Fischer's current body of work, murderous 20-year-olds, city infrastructure, prayer patrols, LGBTQ rights, bike lanes, Dan Johnson's future, and rising Yum Center debt. AUDIO: This nugget helps Leet avoid the type of derision faced by Sec. of State Alison Grimes, who laughingly avoided answering the CJ's question of whether she had voted for Barack Obama. When asked directly, @CWAngelaLeet told @terrymeiners that she didn't vote for #Trump. “I won’t attack people on Twitter."cc: @AlisonForKY— Phillip M. Bailey (@phillipmbailey) October 4, 2017