Political Roundup: ‘Some of these devils want me to be gone,’ Ford Jr. said
Shelby County Commissioner Edmund Ford Jr. talks to Memphis City Council member JB Smiley Jr. at a groundbreaking for the revitalization of the former Southwest Twin Drive-In site in Westwood on May 16. (Patrick Lantrip/The Daily Memphian)
Commissioner Edmund Ford Jr. calls out political rivals, campaigning for 2026 has already started and county budget hearings will be missing a lot of key people.
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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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