00:14This is by far the most difficult moment I've had as an elected official.
00:20I signed a paper that I was sent to Nashville for noon central time as the deadline,
00:26stating that I do request not to be on the ballot, which otherwise if I didn't make the statement they
00:31would keep me on the ballot in the 9th district.
00:33And the 9th district that they have under these new lines is nothing like the 9th district that I've represented.
00:40The district that we have, it will still be the district at least until January, and it possibly will win
00:48the lawsuit,
00:49is compact, which is what you're taught in civics classes, is redistricting should be compact districts,
00:54and districts where the people in it have a commonality of purpose and interest.
00:59And that district does, and because of the fact that it's majority black, and there are white constituents there too,
01:06doesn't mean that they don't have the same interests.
01:08They have the same interests, the future of Memphis economically, health care for people in Memphis,
01:13whether they're black or white, fairness for women to have a right to choose,
01:20fairness for gays and lesbians to have rights to marry and to live without persecution.
01:30There are all kinds of issues about jobs and job training and education.
01:36And I don't want to quit, I'm not a quitter, but these districts were drawn to beat me.
01:40They were drawn to defeat me.
01:44Thanks, Jonas.
01:47What was the name of the mortician?
01:51So you need to make them taste as you have.
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