Bonner, Turner can run for Memphis mayor
Shelby County Chancellor rules Memphis does not have residency requirement
Shelby County Sheriff Floyd Bonner Jr. (left) and president of the NAACP Memphis Branch Van Turner (right) are the focus of litigation regarding a residency requirement to run for Memphis mayor. (From left to right: Mark Weber/The Daily Memphian file; Patrick Lantrip/The Daily Memphian file).
The two mayoral candidates, neither of whom have lived in Memphis for two years, and the City Council argued that a 1996 referendum repealed residency requirements.
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Bill Dries covers city and county government and politics. He is a native Memphian and has been a reporter for more than 40 years.
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