The fast track to the August state and federal primary elections
Decisions about whether to run and in which congressional district were still being made as the “Behind the Headlines” discussion was being recorded Thursday, May 14. (Mark Weber/The Daily Memphian)
The quick shift from the May elections to the August elections is the main topic of discussion on this week’s “Behind The Headlines.”
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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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