Political Roundup: Walking local party lines
Jordan Carpenter is challenging incumbent county commissioner Brandon Morrison in the only contested Republican primary on the May ballot. And Carpenter has the backing of Morrison’s four Republican colleagues on the commission. (Bill Dries/Daily Memphian)
As some Democrats pledge to try to censure Memphis Mayor Jim Strickland for endorsing a Republican candidate for state Senate in the August primaries, local Republicans have their own internal differences.
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2022 elections Jordan Carpenter Brandon Morrison Cary Vaughn Floyd Bonner Worth Morgan Ken Moody Brent Taylor Jim Strickland 2022 judicial races 2022 state House racesBill Dries on demand
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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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