London Lamar opens Congressional bid amid redistricting revamp
Panelists Rev. Keith Norman (left), state Sen. London Lamar, D-Memphis, state Rep. Jesse Chism, D-Memphis, Telisa Franklin, and attorney Van Turner, speak about redistricting at a town hall meeting on redistricting at Breath of Life Church in Memphis on May 28, 2026. (Noah McLane/The Daily Memphian)
It was once a tradition for candidates for Tennessee Governor to launch their campaigns with a series of stops from Memphis to Mountain City or Mountain City to Memphis.
It was a demonstration that they intended to run a statewide campaign in a long and very diverse state that tests the mettle of any serious candidate on several levels.
There is a shorter version of that underway in the newly drawn Congressional districts that have divided Memphis among Districts 5, 8 and 9.
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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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