There are 225 article(s) tagged Tami Sawyer:

• August 2019

  • Sanford: Mayor mines campaign gold with Nickleberry endorsement

    An unassuming, 87-year-old, recently retired black sanitation worker provides a powerful and authentic endorsement of Jim Strickland.

    By Otis Sanford August 23, 2019

  • Mayoral incumbent, challengers paint different portraits of city’s future

    Memphis Mayor Jim Strickland has a full calendar of groundbreakings and openings as an incumbent campaigning on his record. Challenger Tami Sawyer, meanwhile, is appealing to fellow millennials to resist the call of other cities as well as the momentum Strickland is claiming.

    By Bill Dries August 22, 2019

  • County Commission committee does not commit to request for school pay study

    Shelby County Commission committees Wednesday sent several measures to the full commission meeting without a recommendation, including a request for a study on school district workers who do not make $15 an hour.

    By Linda A. Moore August 21, 2019

  • Herrington: A mayor’s race marked by vocabulary lessons and personal disdain

    As the confused reader response to “not … anti-racist” underscored, this is not a widely familiar term. Sawyer is seeking the mayor’s office, not tenure. That means persuading voters who haven’t sat in a college sociology or cultural studies class in a while, or ever. 

    By Chris Herrington August 20, 2019

  • Sawyer blazes five-year path from protest to mayor’s race

    Memphis Mayoral contender and Shelby County Commissioner Tami Sawyer is mounting a complex challenge of incumbent mayor Jim Strickland. The challenge combines promises of disruption with national issues as Sawyer seeks to fuse activism with electoral politics.

    By Bill Dries August 19, 2019

  • Behind the Headlines Podcast: Candidate for mayor, County Commissioner Tami Sawyer

    County Commissioner Tami Sawyer, a candidate for mayor, talks with Bill Dries, reporter for The Daily Memphian, and host Eric Barnes about her stance on many of the issues in the 2019 Memphis Mayoral election.

    By Natalie Van Gundy August 16, 2019

  • Sawyer says Strickland is not ‘an anti-racist’

    The mayoral contender and county commissioner commented on a "Behind The Headlines" recording Thursday when asked about comments made by CNN commentator Angela Rye in Memphis last week labeling Mayor Jim Strickland a "racist' and "Dixiecrat."

    By Bill Dries August 15, 2019

  • Strickland, Sawyer differences on police and protests are personal and political

    The incumbent and challenger Tami Sawyer have a complex history on what is arguably the most volatile issue of the mayor's race. 

    By Bill Dries August 12, 2019

  • CNN commentator Angela Rye joins Tami Sawyer on campaign trail

    CNN political commentator Angela Rye made a return trip to Memphis Aug. 8, stumping at a fundraising luncheon for Memphis mayoral candidate Tami Sawyer.

    By Omer Yusuf August 09, 2019

  • Herrington: Mayor’s race boys’ club, in defense of scooters and more

    Thoughts on Willie Herenton's attempt to make the Memphis mayor's race a two-man affair, the influx of scooters and the Memphis story at the National Museum of African American History and Culture. 

    By Chris Herrington August 06, 2019

  • Herenton vows to ‘Fight the Power’

    Tami Sawyer charges patriarchy. The Jim Strickland campaign says Willie Herenton left a "mess" with tax hikes and service cuts during his 17-year tenure at City Hall.

    By Bill Dries August 04, 2019

  • Shelby County Youth Council will get young people involved in government

    A new Shelby County Youth Council will give the county's young people a voice and a place in the decision-making process.

    By Linda A. Moore August 01, 2019

  • Sanford: Will Memphis voters sit this one out?

    Because of our toxic political climate, the two biggest motivators that drive voters to the polls are anger and excitement. The city election is nonpartisan and falls between the 2018 midterm and next year’s presidential contest, which may leave Memphis voters complacent.

    By Otis Sanford August 01, 2019

• July 2019

  • Strickland says first term as mayor has answered call for change

    Memphis Mayor Jim Strickland opened his reelection campaign headquarters Tuesday in Poplar Plaza, citing his record and setting a goal to "accelerate momentum" if elected to a second term.

    By Bill Dries July 31, 2019

  • Strickland, Herenton go after each other in mayor’s race

    Mayor Jim Strickland and former Mayor Willie Herenton have raised their rhetoric about each other in recent days after initially avoiding direct criticism of each other.

    By Bill Dries, Omer Yusuf July 30, 2019

  • Summer heat tests door-to-door campaign strategies

    Mayoral contenders Tami Sawyer and Jim Strickland are mixing old-fashioned door-to-door campaigning with canvassing apps that show the voting histories of households.

    By Bill Dries July 23, 2019

  • Memphis candidates’ finance reports: Big money to no money

    The second quarter campaign finance reports show a big difference between Mayor Jim Strickland and his two closest challengers by the amount of money raised. But one of those challengers outspent him for the quarter. 

    By Bill Dries July 22, 2019

  • Mayoral candidate Tami Sawyer unveils criminal justice platform

    Mayoral contender Tami Sawyer and incumbent Mayor Jim Strickland differ greatly on how they believe the Memphis Police Department should be set up to fight the city's violent crime issues. 

    By Omer Yusuf July 13, 2019

  • Strickland plans to spend $1 million campaign war chest in ‘last race ever’

    Memphis Mayor Jim Strickland’s campaign war chest stands at more than $1 million in a second-quarter campaign finance report to be filed with the Shelby County Election Commission by Wednesday.

    By Bill Dries July 10, 2019

  • Sawyer unveils social justice platform in mayoral bid

    Memphis mayoral contender and Shelby County Commissioner Tami Sawyer is calling for a neighborhood council to brings concerns of communities to City Hall as well as an immigrant support services office for city government and an action plan to combat infant mortality.

    By Bill Dries July 10, 2019

• June 2019

  • Sawyer calls for more rapid changes to spread of city’s prosperity

    Tami Sawyer talks about the Brandon Webber shooting, MATA funding and other issues on The Daily Memphian Politics Podcast. 

    By Bill Dries June 22, 2019

  • Politics Podcast: Mayoral contender Tami Sawyer

    Memphis mayoral candidate Tami Sawyer talks about “momentum” and disruption, tax hikes and the Brandon Webber shooting.

    By Natalie Van Gundy June 21, 2019

  • Sanford: A tragedy that hurt all of Memphis

    The gravity of violent crime continues to loom over Memphis like an ominous storm cloud that stubbornly refuses to break up and move on.

    By Otis Sanford June 13, 2019

  • Lee pushes re-entry programs amid reaction to violent crime

    A two-day visit to Memphis by Gov. Bill Lee included signing a bill dropping state fees for expungements. The move comes against a backdrop of reaction to the weekend slaying of financial executive Glenn Cofield and a rise in homicides compared to this time last year.

    By Bill Dries June 12, 2019

  • People’s Convention endorses Tami Sawyer for mayor

    The convention at the Paradise Entertainment Center in South Memphis Saturday drew no city council incumbents before a group of 600 to the nightclub, with about 200 participating in the process that stretched over six hours.

    By Bill Dries June 09, 2019