Opening day action to get on August ballot dominated with familiar faces
Republican Marsha Blackburn, left, and Democrat Jerri Green pulled petitions to run in their respective primaries for Tennessee governor. (Jacquelyn Martin, Patrick Lantrip/AP file, The Daily Memphian file)
Six of the 13 incumbent state House members representing Shelby County in Nashville checked out petitions on Friday’s opening day. Meanwhile, several judicial positions on the August ballot as special elections are also filling up.
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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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