Memphis wasn’t asked to join National Guard lawsuit, Harris says
“That’s not a live issue,” Shelby County Mayor Lee Harris said of the possibility of Memphis being included in the lawsuit. “That’s not an issue that was discussed.” (Bill Dries/The Daily Memphian)
Shelby County Mayor Lee Harris and leaders of other groups seeking to stop the National Guard deployment in Memphis say the city was never offered an option to join their 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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