State House hopeful bounced as write-in candidate
Tennessee Elections Coordinator Mark Goins ruled Kyler Gilkey (left) is not eligible as awrite-in candidacy for the Tennessee House of Representatives. (Patrick Lantrip/The Daily Memphian file)
Kyler Gilkey was declared ineligible at Monday’s deadline for write-in candidates in the Nov. 3 election. It’s the latest wrinkle in a complex political puzzle. Meanwhile, five other contenders did qualify.
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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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