Herenton vows to ‘Fight the Power’
Casts mayor’s race as duel with Strickland
Willie Herenton supporters clasp hands for prayer during a Donuts With Doc rally at the mayoral candidate's campaign headquarters in South Memphis on Aug. 3, 2019. (Jim Weber/Daily Memphian)
Tami Sawyer charges patriarchy. The Jim Strickland campaign says Willie Herenton left a "mess" with tax hikes and service cuts during his 17-year tenure at City Hall.
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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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