Political Roundup: Democrats rally; White-Nordstrom state House race, and a Whitehaven school district?
Tennessee State Representative Karen Camper is among the returning Democratic National Convention delegates who spoke Saturday, Aug. 24, 2024 at a Kamala Harris rally at Overton High School. (Brad Vest/Special to The Daily Memphian)
There was just enough of the partisan energy left Saturday, Aug. 24, from the Democratic National Convention in Chicago that state House Democratic Leader Karen Camper of Memphis felt emboldened to alter the lyrics of the 1980s Culture Club hit “Karma Chameleon.”
Camper danced on stage in the Overton High School auditorium in East Memphis Saturday replacing the lyrics with Kamala — as in vice president and Democratic presidential nominee Kamala Harris — drawn out to replace both “karma” and “chameleon.”
The gathering of more than 100 Memphis Democrats was one of four across the state — including Nashville, Knoxville and Chattanooga — at the same time organized by the statewide political groups “Indivisible Tennessee” and “Win With Black Women - Tennessee.”
The rallies were aimed at get-out-the-vote organizers and strategists who will be carrying out a grass roots, canvassing, door knocking and phone banking effort that comes from the national campaign.
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2024 elections Shelby County Democratic Party Mark White Noah Nordstrom Whitehaven Republican Club Vincent Hunter Campus School District Subscriber OnlyAre you enjoying your subscription?
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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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