Mayor’s race has 13 contenders as the October election filing deadline nears
Thursday at noon is the deadline for candidates to file qualifying petitions for the October Memphis ballot. (Mark Weber/The Daily Memphian)
As council contenders weigh their options, several races are filling up. Meanwhile, two former council members have filed their petitions to get back on the body and a third is considering it.
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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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