Election Commission subpoenaing Mayor Strickland in mayoral residency suit
Attorneys in residency dispute question motives on other side
An attorney for the Shelby County Election Commission says Memphis Mayor Jim Strickland and City Attorney Jennifer Sink need to be brought into a lawsuit from the two mayoral candidates Floyd Bonner Jr. and Van Turner. (The Daily Memphian file)
The city administration has declined to take a side on whether it believes the five-year residency requirement is in effect. That puts the city between the Election Commission, which wants some kind of court ruling on what the requirement is, and two mayoral candidates whose attorneys say they will pursue who raised the residency issue in the first place.
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Samuel Hardiman
Samuel Hardiman is an enterprise and investigative reporter who focuses on local government and politics. He is a native Rhode Islander who lives Downtown. He has covered Memphis since 2018.
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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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