Campaigns move to city election day as voters decide
Katherine Turner braves the unseasonably extreme heat on an early October election day in Memphis to campaign for Memphis City Council hopeful John Marek outside of Mississippi Boulevard Christian Church on Oct. 3, 2019. (Patrick Lantrip/Daily Memphian)
As Memphis voters put to rest another season of campaigns for a place at City Hall, there are several last-minute dramas unfolding in a city where election night is the same night as Memphis Madness.
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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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