Frank Colvett drops out of mayor’s race, says field is too crowded
Memphis City Councilman Frank Colvett poses for a portrait outside of City Hall July 25. (Patrick Lantrip/The Daily Memphian)
Colvett pulled out of what is now an 18-candidate race at Thursday’s deadline for candidates to withdraw from the October Memphis ballot.
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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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