Democrats and Republicans strategize ahead of May county primaries
Rachel Wall (left) is the Shelby County Republican Party chairwoman, and Willie Simon (right) is the Shelby County Democratic Party chairman. (The Daily Memphian file)
Leaders of the local Republican and Democratic parties talked about the May Shelby County primary elections on “Behind The Headlines.”
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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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