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The Shelby County Republican Party is hoping having partisan primaries in school board races will help them crawl back to relevancy in the Democratic-dominated county, even if they have little chance of winning some races.
The Shelby County Republican Party executive committee didn’t want partisan primaries in school board races two years ago, but Thursday’s vote went the other way.
Worth Morgan and Naser Fazlullah vied in a hard-fought contest. The county GOP convention in Bartlett drew more than 400 people.
“This was a winnable race. This was a ridiculously winnable race,” Lisa Arnold told Shelby County Republicans of her loss.
“It is time for us to talk about whether our DA has the philosophical beliefs and tenacity to help us solve our crime challenge.”
The decision came during a secret-ballot vote of the local Republican Party’s executive committee Thursday, Sept. 7, in Germantown.
The Memphis Republican’s bid for a state income tax in his second term as governor estranged him from the GOP statewide, but Sundquist made his peace with a more conservative state party late in life.
The move to primaries in what are now nonpartisan races began in response to book and curriculum topic bannings in Florida.
Cary Vaughn was re-elected Shelby County Republican chairman at the local party’s biennial convention, with a call for new blood and a focus on common ground.
With Republicans losing every county office, a former local party executive director looks at what the GOP needs to consider if it’s going to win again.
“An overwhelming majority of local voters believe Republicans have allowed the inmates to run the asylum. And the local party is paying the price.”
The former Shelby County Republican Party chairman and member of the Republican National Committee, as well as its general counsel, died over the weekend at the age of 72.
Former Trump chief of staff Mark Meadows gave the keynote speech at the local Republican Party’s Lincoln Day Gala, with many GOP figures vowing to regain the majority in the U.S. House in midterm elections this year.
Here is the backstory of how county primaries came to be in the early 1990s, called for by Republicans several years after Democrats splintered over a move in their ranks to take local elections partisan.
The county commission Republican primary between incumbent Brandon Morrison and challenger Jordan Carpenter is the only contested GOP primary on the May ballot.
Cary Vaughn is the new chairman of the Shelby County Republican Party as Democrats outline a long-term data-driven strategy and the county’s only Republican elected official opens her re-election campaign.
Tutor says the next local party chairman has a chance to win back countywide offices in 2022 that Republicans lost due to what Tutor says was the result of anti-Trump sentiment.
The Cordova headquarters opening spotlighted the only countywide race on the August ballot – the race for General Sessions Court Clerk between Democrat Joe Brown and Republican Paul Boyd.
The declaration by Chris Tutor on The Daily Memphian Politics Podcast echoes a recent message by Shelby County Mayor Lee Harris. Tutor also says he sees Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders as the Democratic presidential nominee and challenger to President Donald Trump.
Shelby County Republican Party chairman Chris Tutor on Trump, who the Democrats are likely to nominate and why Shelby County is purple, not blue.
A public transportation ad hoc committee will try to come up with a way to raise about $9 million in county funds for the Memphis Area Transit Authority.
On The Daily Memphian Politics Podcast, Sam Goff said he no longer considers himself a Republican because of the national party's position on the impeachment of President Donald Trump.
The local Republican party will win elections again, the chairman of the Shelby County GOP vowed Friday at the party’s annual Lincoln Day Gala.
Shelby County Republican Party chairman Chris Tutor says his conservative views expressed at a party convention Sunday are his own beliefs but don't reflect the platform of the local party as it rebuilds.
Shelby County Republican Party chairman Chris Tutor talks about the call and debate by some Republicans to do away with partisan county primaries and his vision of a “big tent” for the local party.
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