Leaders react to Memphis redistricting
Members of the Senate meet during a special session of the state legislature to redraw U.S. Congressional voting maps on Tuesday, May 5, 2026, in Nashville. The Tennessee General Assembly officially passed legislation to redraw the state’s Congressional districts on Thursday. (George Walker IV/AP)
“We have specific needs, and we need a representative in Congress that can speak to those needs,” Memphis Mayor Paul Young told The Daily Memphian Thursday.
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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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