Halbert asserts independence in response to county mayor’s ultimatum
“I am an independent elected official. The mayor is not my boss or the boss of the County Commission,” Shelby County Clerk Wanda Halbert said. (Bill Dries/The Daily Memphian file)
Shelby County Clerk Wanda Halbert says she has a back-up plan to move the clerk’s office now at Poplar Plaza to an old bank branch at Quince and Perkins.
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Bill Dries covers city and county government and politics. He is a native Memphian and has been a reporter for almost 50 years covering a wide variety of stories from the 1977 death of Elvis Presley and the 1978 police and fire strikes to numerous political campaigns, every county mayor and every Memphis Mayor starting with Wyeth Chandler.
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