State House District 96 will stay blue with a new face
Dwayne Thompson's, D-Cordova, decision not to seek another two-year term for Tennessee District 96 has spawned a five-candidate Democratic primary field on the August ballot. (Patrick Lantrip/The Daily Memphian file)
The Cordova-based state House seat is the only Shelby County seat with no incumbent. With no Republican or independent contenders, the August Democratic primary will determine who gets the seat.
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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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