What’s in a name? If it’s ‘clerk,’ it can be a tough race to sell
General Sessions Court Clerk Ed Stanton Jr. decided last year he would not seek re-election. Within days of his announcement, the field of contenders began to declare. By the filing deadline 17 candidates made the ballot. (Patrick Lantrip/Daily Memphian file)
The March primaries, which lead to the only general election for a countywide position this election year, is the latest skirmish between two factions – those who work in the clerk's offices and those who don't but who have name recognition from other races.
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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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