Summer heat tests door-to-door campaign strategies
Amal Altareb, a member of mayoral challenger Tami Sawyer's canvassing team, holds campaign materials during a street team meeting Saturday, July 20, at Ed Rice Community Center in Frayser. Canvassers went door-to-door in teams of two to pass out push cards. (Ziggy Mack/Special to The Daily Memphian)
Mayoral contenders Tami Sawyer and Jim Strickland are mixing old-fashioned door-to-door campaigning with canvassing apps that show the voting histories of households.
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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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