The city that produced the zoot suit, Delta Blues and Elvis sightings, Memphis can be relied on to spice up even the mundane world of politics. In what is perhaps the result of a chemical imbalance brought on by the summer's stifling heat, 16 candidates have thrown their hat in the ring for the upcoming mayoral election, among them a professional wrestler, a former football coach, a lawyer who defended Martin Luther King's assassin, and a man who once served time for running a prostitution ring. Throw in an incumbent engaged in a feud with a Memphis political machine, and the mundane becomes, in wrestling lingo, a Battle Royale.
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