There are 40 article(s) tagged Brandon Morrison:

• December 2022

  • Mission Impossible? DA says criminal justice reform and crime reduction can mix

    Memphis has a massive crime problem. Steve Mulroy has lofty ideas about criminal justice reform, but priority is to reduce crime and make the city safer.

    By Don Wade December 25, 2022

• May 2022

  • Election Commission certifies Shelby County May primary results

    The certified results show more than 100 additional votes than the election night unofficial totals in the one-candidate Republican primary races for Shelby County Mayor and District Attorney General. 

    By Bill Dries May 18, 2022

  • Sanford: It’s time to end costly, divisive, disinterested county primaries

    Turnout for Tuesday’s primary was 10.7%, the lowest for a county primary since 2014.

    By Otis Sanford May 05, 2022

  • Morrison edges Carpenter in District 4 Republican race

    District 4 was the only contested Republican race on the May 3 ballot.

    By Abigail Warren May 04, 2022

• April 2022

  • County Commission approves MATA funding but wants more oversight of transit authority

    The MATA funding has also become an issue in the May Republican primary for commission District 4. 

    By Bill Dries April 12, 2022

  • Morrison-Carpenter matchup draws distinctions, few sparks at Southwind

    Shelby County Commissioner Brandon Morrison defends her conservatism while opponent Jordan Carpenter targets what he calls “dangerous ideologies” and “perversion.”

    By Bill Dries April 06, 2022

• March 2022

  • Political Roundup: Walking local party lines

    As some Democrats pledge to try to censure Memphis Mayor Jim Strickland for endorsing a Republican candidate for state Senate in the August primaries, local Republicans have their own internal differences.

    By Bill Dries March 30, 2022

  • Former court clerk eyes state Senate bid in wake of Kelsey’s withdrawal

    Former Probate Court Clerk Paul Boyd says he hasn’t made up his mind on filing his qualifying petition for the August ballot.

    By Bill Dries March 08, 2022

• February 2022

  • District 4 Republican primary skirmish survives challenge

    The county commission Republican primary between incumbent Brandon Morrison and challenger Jordan Carpenter is the only contested GOP primary on the May ballot. 

    By Abigail Warren, Bill Dries February 28, 2022

  • County Commission to get final list for Senate vacancy

    The commission won’t fill the vacancy until next month but most if not all of the names on the list are expected to be those running in the August primaries for a full four-year term in Nashville.

    By Bill Dries February 25, 2022

  • County Commission Scorecard: COVID tests, CHOICES playground and Juvenile Court

    The County Commission Scorecard finds basic ideological differences remain on the 13-member body, as it moves into the home stretch of its four-year term.

    By Bill Dries February 03, 2022

  • Morrison, Sawyer disagree on bipartisanship and county lobbying firm

    Commissioner Brandon Morrison wants the county commission to rehire the lobbying firm it has used in the past and called for a “compromise to purple.” Commissioner Tami Sawyer said the call for bipartisanship “makes absolutely no sense at all.”

    By Bill Dries February 02, 2022

• January 2022

  • In split vote, Shelby County decides to distribute COVID test kits

    Three county commissioners voted against the $1.44 million purchase of 180,000 tests in 90 kits with two tests a piece. One cited comments by Dr. Ben Carson on Fox News earlier this week complaining that more tests would mean a rise in COVID cases.

    By Bill Dries January 20, 2022

  • County Commission Scorecard: Top 5 Votes of 2021

     The top five include property taxes, redistricting, pay raises, a takeback on critical race theory and the strategic battle for a new commission chairman.

    By Bill Dries January 06, 2022

  • Sugarmon to run again for Juvenile Court Judge

    Memphis City Court Judge Tarik Sugarmon will run against incumbent Juvenile Court Judge Dan Michael. Meanwhile, Marcus Mitchell is running for Juvenile Court Clerk County Commissioner Brandon Morrison is running in a new district.

    By Bill Dries January 05, 2022

• November 2021

  • County Commission makes last-minute moves, approves final district map

    The redistricting map approved Monday keeps a new Cordova-based district, restores the Collierville 7 precinct to District 2 and Germantown 4 to District 4. It also separates two incumbents expected to run again.

    By Bill Dries November 08, 2021

  • County Commission approves redistricting plan, but must vote again

    Democrats voted for it and Republicans voted against it. But the party line was not enough to make it the final vote on the redistricting plan that creates a new commission district built around Cordova, where most of the growth was in the 2020 Census. 

    By Bill Dries November 01, 2021

  • Shelby County Commission to take final vote on new district lines

    It might be a long day at the county building Monday, Nov. 1, when Shelby County commissioners are scheduled for the final vote on the once-a-decade process of drawing new district lines.

    By Bill Dries November 01, 2021

• October 2021

  • Commissioners debate district changes, set up final vote

    Meeting in special session Wednesday, Oct. 27, Shelby County commissioners set the stage to approve a redistricting ordinance on third and final reading at their regular Monday meeting. They also increased the recommendations from the ad hoc group on redistricting to a total of four maps.

    By Bill Dries October 27, 2021

  • Top 3 redistricting maps on way to Shelby County Commission

    The ad hoc group, made up mostly of county commissioners, included in its top 3 a map that drew the ire of commissioner Brandon Morrison last week for endangering her re-election prospects last year. 

    By Bill Dries October 26, 2021

  • Redistricting and reelection: uneasy coexistence surfaces

    An ad hoc group is drafting recommendations on new district lines for the Shelby County Commission.

    By Bill Dries October 25, 2021

  • County Commission approves most federal COVID aid use

    Commissioners approved the plans for using $58 million in American Rescue Plan Act funding, but several challenged Shelby County Mayor Lee Harris’ plans for the remaining $10 million.

    By Bill Dries October 19, 2021

  • Two new county redistricting maps start to show changes

    The county’s redistricting effort is on its third and fourth proposed maps of what the new boundaries could look like for the 13 County Commission districts going into the 2022 elections. A “Poplar-Midtown corridor” in the East Memphis district caused a lot of debate. 

    By Bill Dries October 05, 2021

• September 2021

  • Chairman’s new committee causes rancor in County Commission

    When chairman Willie Brooks created a study group Monday on possible local government changes without a vote, some commissioners call it a consolidation committee in all but name, causing chairman Reginald Milton to quit.

    By Bill Dries September 28, 2021

• April 2021

  • Health Department gets $11.5 million in federal pandemic funding

    The funding is to maintain 171 Health Department positions specifically for the pandemic.

    By Bill Dries April 12, 2021