Herenton calls on supporters to win mayor’s race with early vote dominance
Supporters cheer and wave signs as former Memphis Mayor Willie Herenton is introduced at a Women for Herenton campaign event on Aug. 24, 2019, at Herenton's campaign headquarters at 3358 S. Third St. (Mike Kerr/Special to The Daily Memphian)
With former Memphis Mayor Willie Herenton in the background, Yolanda Askew holds a cell phone to take a group selfie with Kimberly (center of group) and Yolanda Houston at a Women for Herenton campaign event on Aug. 24, 2019, at Herenton's campaign headquarters at 3358 S. Third St. (Mike Kerr/Special to The Daily Memphian)
Former Memphis Mayor Willie Herenton talks with reporters after a Women for Herenton campaign event on Aug. 24, 2019, at his campaign headquarters at 3358 S. Third St. (Mike Kerr/Special to The Daily Memphian)
Former Memphis Mayor Willie Herenton told a women's rally that he wants to guard against election fraud. Meanwhile, contender Tami Sawyer rips Herenton and Mayor Jim Strickland for attending the local GOP's Lincoln Day Gala.
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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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