Campaign finance reports: 6-digit dollar figures in mayor, council races
Memphis Mayor Jim Strickland celebrates with supporters during an election night party at the Memphis Botanic Gardens on Oct. 3, 2019 after decisively winning a second term. (Jim Weber/Daily Memphian)
The third quarter campaign finance reports show the campaign for a city sales tax hike raised more money than any candidate on the Oct. 3 ballot. The campaign was second only to Mayor Jim Strickland in spending. The reports cover the critical run-up to the city elections, including the first part of the early voting period.
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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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