There are 24 article(s) tagged Shelby County Republican Party:

• September 2023

  • Shelby County Republican Party says no to school board primaries in close vote

    The decision came during a secret-ballot vote of the local Republican Party’s executive committee Thursday, Sept. 7, in Germantown. 

    By Bill Dries September 08, 2023

• August 2023

  • Former 2-term Republican Tennessee Gov. Don Sundquist dies at 87

    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.

    By Bill Dries August 27, 2023

  • County political parties eye red and blue school board elections

    The move to primaries in what are now nonpartisan races began in response to book and curriculum topic bannings in Florida. 

    By Bill Dries, Abigail Warren August 08, 2023

• March 2023

  • GOP chairman returns with call for party broader than Trump

    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.

    By Bill Dries March 26, 2023

• October 2022

  • Opinion: What must Republicans do to win in Shelby County?

    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.

    By Kristina Garner October 22, 2022

• August 2022

  • Sanford: Election outcome was emphatic message of rejection to the GOP

    “An overwhelming majority of local voters believe Republicans have allowed the inmates to run the asylum. And the local party is paying the price.”

    By Otis Sanford August 05, 2022

• May 2022

  • Local, state and national Republican strategist John Ryder dies

    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. 

    By Bill Dries May 17, 2022

• April 2022

  • Trump’s last chief of staff touts ex-president’s record to local Republicans

    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. 

    By Bill Dries April 29, 2022

  • The election backstory: Primaries

    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.

    By Bill Dries April 25, 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

• April 2021

  • Political maneuvering begins for 2022

    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.

    By Bill Dries April 26, 2021

  • Shelby GOP chairman won’t seek another term

    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.

    By Bill Dries April 02, 2021

• July 2020

  • Shelby Republicans open campaign headquarters

    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.

    By Bill Dries July 06, 2020

• February 2020

  • Local GOP chairman sees Shelby County as purple beyond presidential election year

    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.

    By Bill Dries February 22, 2020

  • Politics Podcast: The Republican side of the Tennessee Presidential Primary

    Shelby County Republican Party chairman Chris Tutor on Trump, who the Democrats are likely to nominate and why Shelby County is purple, not blue.

    By Bill Dries February 22, 2020

• January 2020

  • County Commission creates panel to work MATA funding puzzle

    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.

    By Linda A. Moore January 23, 2020

• December 2019

  • Goff leaves Republican fold over impeachment

    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. 

    By Bill Dries December 28, 2019

• August 2019

  • Lee touts ‘conservative values’ at Lincoln Day gala, Kustoff calls impeachment ‘giant time suck’

    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.

    By Bill Dries August 26, 2019

• February 2019

  • Shelby County GOP leader: No ‘ideological litmus test’ as party rebuilds

    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. 

    By Bill Dries February 28, 2019

  • Politics Podcast: Shelby County Republican Party chairman Chris Tutor

    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.

    By Natalie Van Gundy February 27, 2019

  • Tutor vows ‘big tent’ local Republican Party rebuilding effort

    Chris Tutor, the new chairman of the Shelby County Republican Party, says it will be hard to rebuild the local party after a Democratic sweep of county elections last year. 

    By Bill Dries February 25, 2019

  • Local Republican Party leadership changes, looks for bigger tent after disastrous 2018 county elections

    The only contender so far for the leadership of the Shelby County Republican Party said the local party needs candidates who are more representative and the party needs to seek out African-American and Hispanic voters.

    By Bill Dries February 11, 2019

• December 2018

  • Sanford: This year’s top news stories hint at what’s ahead in 2019

    A steady flow of mostly positive economic news for Memphis and Shelby County – coupled with the solemn and tasteful commemoration of the 50th anniversary of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s assassination – was overshadowed at times by political bickering and grandstanding in 2018.

    By Otis Sanford December 27, 2018

• November 2018

  • Local GOP tables attempt to censure Billingsley

    Shelby County Republicans tabled a move Thursday evening to censure Republican county commissioner Mark Billingsley for showing support for Democratic state Senate nominee Gabby Salinas.

    By Bill Dries November 02, 2018