Political Roundup: Young opens HQ in Poplar Plaza, Wharton on name recognition
Mayoral contender Paul Young, right, with County Register Willie Brooks, left, during the Saturday, May 27, opening of Young’s campaign headquarters in Poplar Plaza. (Bill Dries/The Daily Memphian)
Mayoral contender and Downtown Memphis Commission president Paul Young drew a crowd of around 150 Saturday, May 27, to his campaign headquarters at Poplar Plaza — the first among the contenders.
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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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