Sawyer unveils social justice platform in mayoral bid

Plan calls for immigration support office, neighborhood council and infant mortality effort

By , Daily Memphian Updated: July 10, 2019 10:32 AM CT | Published: July 09, 2019 5:11 PM CT

Memphis mayoral contender and Shelby County Commissioner Tami Sawyer is calling for a neighborhood council to brings concerns of communities to City Hall as well as an immigrant support services office for city government and an action plan to combat infant mortality.

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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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