Jerri Green, Luke Hatler and Benji Smith among new faces in council races
Jerri Green, senior policy advisor for Mayor Lee Harris, speaks during a ceremony where the Shelby County Government invested $194,000 in critical transitional housing for My Sistah’s House, a Memphis organization that works to bridge the gap in services for transgender and queer people of color. (Brad Vest/Special to The Daily Memphian)
Here’s a look at some of the newest names on the still-forming October Memphis election ballot. The deadline for candidates to get their names in the races for city council and mayor is noon Thursday.
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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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