State won’t appeal ‘Memphis’ mistake,’ Tenn. attorney general says
“This is Memphis’ mistake to make and will ultimately be Memphis’ mistake to pay for as the state-preemption law authorizes triple attorney’s fees against cities in violation,” Tennessee Attorney General Jonathan Skrmetti said in the statement Friday. (George Walker IV/AP file)
“These ballot questions are a fraud on the voters of Memphis,” General Jonathan Skrmetti said in a statement his office released about its decision to not challenge a court’s ruling allowing the gun-control referendum to continue.
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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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