Floyd Bonner Jr. contests residency requirement in Memphis mayor’s race
Shelby County Sheriff Floyd Bonner Jr., alongside his wife Audrey, announced his entrance into the Memphis mayor’s race on Oct. 25, 2022. (Mark Weber/The Daily Memphian)
Bonner is seeking to stop enforcement of the city charter’s residency provision for candidates running for Memphis mayor.
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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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