Council ethics complaint against Ford to be dropped
The ethics complaint against City Councilman Edmund Ford Sr., seen here in 2019, will be dropped in the Dec. 1 meeting. (Jim Weber/Daily Memphian)
The outburst by City Council member Edmund Ford Sr. two weeks ago still raises questions about how to apply rules of conduct to elected council members. And it’s a discussion past councils have had about Ford and others on the body.
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