City Council challengers make Juneteenth campaign stops
Dancers with the Memphis Explosive Jagettes compete in the Ultimate Dance Showdown during the annual Juneteenth celebration at Robert R. Church Park on June 15, 2019. Memphis City Council contenders made stops at Juneteenth gatherings around the city Saturday to connect with potential voters. (Jim Weber/Daily Memphian)
With several Juneteenth observances in different part of the city Saturday, candidates in the October Memphis elections were moving among them and other events on their summer political calendars.
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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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