Thread: Nashville - Forget Fred! We want D-Hall!

Forget Fred! We want D-Hall!
By Rex Noseworthy, rnoseworthy@nashvillecitypaper.com
April 02, 2007

Sheriff Daron Hall is one public official who readily admits that he doesn’t enjoy the limelight. In that regard, Hall has been one pretty unlucky individual lately.

Since last summer, Hall’s name has been synonymous with 287(g), a federal program to let local law enforcement agencies enforce our nation’s immigration laws in their own towns. Hall’s tireless advocacy and push for the program is what is bringing it to Nashville — in about a week.

But it has also led to Hall having his name and mug routinely plastered all over every Nashville newspaper and television station — most notably right here in The City Paper, which has led the pack in covering to 287(g) news.

Not that Hall really minds — the constant dropping of his name is the cross he must bear for the public explanation of the immigration program he believes is needed, he says.

Still, for a man whose reaction to being named one of Nashville Lifestyles magazine’s 25 most beautiful people last year was sheer embarrassment, being known as a household name is something the down-home sheriff isn’t exactly 100 percent comfortable with.

But could Hall get used to the attention?

Not a 287(g) story passes without at least a handful of contributors to The City Paper’s on-line comment section posting “Hall for Mayor!” messages.

Hall seems to have single-handedly — and with a single issue — captivated a very real segment of Nashville’s population that is desperately thirsting for someone who can actually do something to fix the city’s problems — in this case illegal immigration.

Hall — humbly, not surprisingly — insists he’s not interested in the job. He already runs a city, in the form of the Metro jail, he says.

But give it awhile.

Regardless of the winner in the Metro mayoral race, Hall is going to be the real political commodity coming out of 2007 in Nashville. He eschews the idea of higher office, but as a well-liked, populist Democrat with an actual track record on immigration reform, Hall’s name is going to keep coming up whenever higher office is mentioned.

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I agree...but we need him for Sheriff!!