Push cards, blue pens and big ambitions: 2026 Shelby County races get underway
The filing period to get on the May County Primary ballot opened Monday, Dec. 22, with a line of contenders and their supporters at the Downtown office of the Shelby County Election Commission. (Bill Dries/Daily Memphian)
The first day Monday, Dec. 22, of the period to get on the May 5 Shelby County primary ballot opened to a crowd of contenders Downtown and those who are already working on their campaigns.
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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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