Opinion: Amend Germantown’s charter to support a full-time mayor? Where’s the outrage?
Patrick Lawton is a former Germantown city administrator. (Patrick Lantrip/The Daily Memphian file)
“The qualities needed to win an election are not the same qualities needed to manage a modern city like Germantown.”
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