Karen Camper joins Memphis mayor’s race
State Rep. Karen Camper (left) stands on the porch of her grandmother’s home on Dempster Avenue Friday, Nov. 11, 2022, to announce she is running in the 2023 race for Memphis mayor. (Brad Vest/Special to The Daily Memphian)
The State House Democratic leader joins an already-crowded field and emphasized basic city services. Meanwhile, one of her key supporters speculates about another big name that might get into the race.
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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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