WASHINGTON -- Incumbent U.S. Rep. Steve Cohen, D-Tenn., and Memphis Mayor Willie Herenton's target in the 9th Congressional District race next year, had little reaction this afternoon to the Herenton's decision to delay his resignation.
"My job is to be the best congressman I can be and I continue to do that," Cohen said, noting he spent the weekend in Washington to speak on two occasions with Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus, D-Mont., about the Regional Medical Center at Memphis. Baucus is working on a major health reform bill.
Asked to speculate on why Herenton delayed action, Cohen said: "I don't really know what the inner Memphis municipal politics are right now. I just kind of read about them in the paper and concentrate on what I'm doing in Congress. I'm going to do the best I can regardless who's mayor, so it doesn't make a lot of difference. My job's to work with whoever's mayor."
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