At 12:03 p.m., construction worker Daniko Flowers ran up to the window at the Shelby County Election Commission with his petition to run for Memphis mayor.
He was turned down for missing the deadline.
"I guess I can't run because I'm three minutes late," said Flowers, wearing a neon yellow construction vest and looking crestfallen.
Flowers left his job with Geodesy Construction on his lunch break to run for mayor. "I'm about to get fired when I go back to work," he said.
A part-time student at Southwest Tennessee Community College, Flowers, 21, said he wanted to run to try to create more jobs in Memphis.
"The unemployment rates are way down and I wanted to see if we could get more job opportunities," he said.
"'The unemployment rates are way down and I wanted to see if we could get more job opportunities,' he said."
Doesn't he mean that the unemployment rates in the city are way UP?
As in, higher unemployment rates equals more unemployed people.
I'm glad he didn't get his petition in on time. We don't need another nutcase who doesn't know up from down trying to run the city.
No Willie, the yellow vest doesn't fool us!
@ Red Rumpknuckle: you should be horribly ashamed of yourself for making such a blatantly racist comment. Although he doesn't sound like a prime candidate for mayor, he is still a fellow human trying to work and survive. You are a disgusting person, plain and simple.
breazy, what racist comment? some clown slacks off on the job to go joke it up by filing a petition to run for mayor and you call my comments racist. only someone that associates stupidity with racial bias would make such an assumption. gum another moonpie and quit posting your nonsense.