‘What in the world’ is Sheriff Bonner spending money on, Harris asks
Shelby County Sheriff Floyd Bonner Jr., left, is suing Shelby County Mayor Lee Harris’ administration over salary restrictions in the county’s current budget. Shelby County Trustee Regina Newman is separately suing as well. (The Daily Memphian files)
Sheriff Floyd Bonner’s lawsuit seeks $67 million in proposed funding for his office that he says was not included in the county’s $1.7 billion consolidated budget.
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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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