Sawyer says fractured county budget season could have been about tax hike
Shelby County Commissioner Tami Sawyer (right, at the Bartlett Senior Center on Tuesday, March 10, 2020) discusses the difficulties with making a budget during a pandemic on this week's Politics Podcast. (Mark Weber/Daily Memphian)
On The Daily Memphian Politics Podcast, Shelby County Commissioner Tami Sawyer also talked about the rift between the Democratic county mayor and the eight-vote Democratic majority on the commission.
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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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