Memphis City Council sues Election Commission over gun-control vote
Memphis City Council Chairman JB Smiley Jr. speaks at an Aug. 30 press conference at Memphis City Hall. (Patrick Lantrip/The Daily Memphian)
“We won’t back down and d--n sure won’t be bullied,” Memphis City Council Chair JB Smiley Jr. said, as council members announced the lawsuit.
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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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