Steve Cohen: “I thought we should be dealing with and continue to feel we should be dealing with Voting Rights Act and deprivation of…”

The odds of that happening simply independent of considering race is less likely than the old story about putting a monkey at a typewriter and then coming out with a Shakespeare play.

My main focus is Memphis, and I don’t think I can do that in those districts that could stretch all the way up to Williamson County.

If the district plan is struck down, I will run for the seat I filed for and served for 19 years.

I just thought it was an uphill battle, and it would be physically demanding, and it would probably be a dirty campaign.