Sanford: Time for Big Shelby to come to the table — and vote
Voters receive their I Voted sicker at New Bethel Baptist Church on April 17. (Patrick Lantrip/The Daily Memphian)
Otis Sanford
Otis Sanford is a political columnist, author and professor emeritus in Journalism and Strategic Media at the University of Memphis.
“(This) all adds up to being arguably the most significant county primary in recent memory. And it is almost exclusively a fight among Democrats who make up a majority of the more than 432,000 active registered voters.”
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