Greg Davis Wins Republican Primary

When Trent Lott announced his retirement, it set off a chain reaction of events that might just wind up benefiting Memphis. Lott retired. Roger Wicker, the Congressman from the First Congressional District of Memphis was appointed to fill Lott's vacant seat. That meant that Wicker's First Congressional District seat came open. The First Congressional District is a solidly Republican district. In a recent series of elections Southaven Mayor Greg Davis won the Republican nomination over former Tupelo Mayor and Chairman of the TVA Glenn McCullough. Now I don't think Greg Davis has any special warm spot in his heart for Memphis. In fact, I'd be willing to bet that he probably doesn't like Memphi all that much. However, having the First Congressional seat in our Metro area has got to be a positive thing for the whole area. Glenn McCullough would undoubtedly have focused more of his time, attention and pork on Tupelo and Northeast Mississippi. Greg Davis will certainly do his best to help that part of the state but he'll always be looking out for his home base, DeSoto County. If we can work with him to help him see that the best way to protect DeSoto County and the First Congressional District is to help Memphis solve its problems here before they get exported there, then he might just be an ally and an asset to our city and to our region. Having another Congressman here in the memphis area should also help insure that we maintain great air service out of Memphis International. So Greg Davis potentially winning that seat is a good thing for the First Congressional District and for Memphis.

Davis will face Travis Childers in the elction in the fall. Childers actually obtained more votes than Davis in the primaries but some of that might have been the Barak Obama effect. It's possible that Childers could win in the fall if a simial phenomenon happened but I doubt it. Things look good for Greg Davis.

Between then and now there will be another election to fill the vacancy in the seat until the election in the fall. That particular election might jut be interesting because there has to be voter fatigue in the first district with there just having been two special elections in the span of 45 days.

Best wishes to Greg Davis. I hope that you get elected and that you'll keep an open mind and ear to ways that you can help the first district by helping Memphis.