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    Push to oust judge over absentee-vote ruling sparks outcry

    A resolution with nearly unanimous House GOP support is calling for proceedings that could remove Davidson County Chancellor Ellen Hobbs Lyle.

    By The Associated Press March 08, 2021
  • Elections

    What Blackburn and Hagerty said at CPAC before Trump spoke

    Democratic U.S. Rep. Steve Cohen’s tweets on Trump’s appearance offered a contrast to the social media reaction from Blackburn and Hagerty. Republican U.S. Rep. David Kustoff didn’t comment on CPAC but did post on his vote against the Democratic COVID stimulus package that passed in the House.

    By Bill Dries March 01, 2021
  • Elections

    Bill would allow business owners to vote where they own business

    Business owners would be able to vote in elections where the business property is located, even if the owner doesn’t live in the same place as the business, under a bill being considered by the Tennessee General Assembly.

    By Ian Round February 24, 2021
  • Elections

    Dozens of election changes proposed by Tennessee legislators

    Here’s a review of some of the bills that would change elections in Shelby County and Tennessee. Some of them have been proposed before and others are new in the wake of the 2020 presidential election year.

    By Bill Dries February 18, 2021
  • Elections

    Election Commission to take County Commission to court over new voting machines

    On a party-line vote Tuesday, Feb. 16, the Shelby County Election Commission voted 3-2 to take the County Commission to court in the ongoing standoff over a new voting system for the 2022 elections. 

    By Bill Dries February 17, 2021
  • Elections

    DeSoto Democrats hope national trend helps local candidates

    Democrats took control of the presidency and Congress in 2020. Could DeSoto County be poised to wrest leadership positions from the Republicans in DeSoto County?

    By Toni Lepeska February 09, 2021
  • Elections

    Vote-A-Rama and how the city’s representatives in Washington voted

    Several dozen non-binding budget amendments were suggested in the Senate to make political statements. Meanwhile, there was a House vote on Georgia Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene.

    By Bill Dries February 05, 2021
  • Elections

    Collierville delays vote on charter amendment, eyes changing public comment

    Collierville will wait to review amending the charter and eliminating the runoff provision. The item was scheduled to be discussed Monday.

    By Abigail Warren February 05, 2021
  • Elections

    Collierville to set public comment rules, consider runoff elimination

    The Board of Mayor and Aldermen will add guidelines to the public comment portion of their meeting. State law does not mandate a public comment portion.

    By Abigail Warren February 04, 2021
  • Elections

    First week of new presidental administration shows local partisan divide largely intact

    The week featured some social media sniping, a MLK Day rebuke and a video plea from Shelby County Schools Superintendent Joris Ray.

    By Bill Dries January 25, 2021
  • Elections

    Election questions this year recall 1876 dispute

    University of Memphis historian Beverly Bond says there are important differences between the contested presidential election of 1876 that ended Reconstruction and the contested 2020 election. But there are some broader connections between the reactions then and now.

    By Bill Dries January 24, 2021
  • Elections

    Remus says Democrats will challenge Lee in 2022 governor’s race

    The new Tennessee Democratic Party chairman says on The Daily Memphian Politics Podcast that challenging Republican majorities in the Tennessee Legislature will take longer. 

    By Bill Dries January 23, 2021
  • Elections

    Days before inauguration come with changing political calculations for local legislators

    Here are the moves the city’s four representatives in Washington, D.C. have made in the historic gap between certifying the Electoral College vote and Wednesday’s inauguration, with a Capitol insurrection in between and plenty of political volatility still around.

    Related story: Cohen draws fire for National Guard questions and Boebert sighting

    By Bill Dries January 20, 2021
  • Elections

    Cohen draws fire for National Guard questions and Boebert sighting

    The Memphis Democrat took fire the day before the presidential inauguration for comments about the political leanings of National Guardsmen and an outspoken Republican Congresswoman from Colorado.

    By Bill Dries January 19, 2021
  • Elections

    Tenn. Democrats’ new chairman plans ‘full assault’ on GOP

    Hendrell Remus is the first Black chairman of the state party and a veteran political operative in Memphis who recently moved to Nashville. He got the votes for chairman Saturday on a pledge to shake the state Democratic Party from its traditional Nashville orientation to a more grass roots and statewide approach. 

    By Bill Dries January 17, 2021
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    State GOP chairman says ‘redder’ Tennessee also comes with challenges for Republicans

    Tennessee Republican Party Chairman Scott Golden, on The Daily Memphian Politics Podcast, says the map to winning Tennessee may have changed with some suburban areas turning purple. 

    By Bill Dries January 16, 2021
  • Elections

    Kustoff defends his electoral college challenge vote

    The Congressman from Germantown told The Daily Memphian he believes Trump’s remarks just before the Capitol insurrection fueled the violence that claimed five lives. Kustoff also indicated it might be time to change the Congressional Act that allowed the electoral college challenge he supported.

    By Bill Dries January 15, 2021
  • Elections

    Cohen, Kustoff go different ways on House 25th Amendment vote

    Cohen, who was among the speakers during debate Tuesday, said: “It is the political equivalent of shooting somebody on Fifth Avenue and getting away with it.”

    By Bill Dries January 13, 2021
  • Elections

    Local Democrats look to Georgia model to end GOP dominance in Tennessee

    Former local Democratic party Chairman Corey Strong, on The Daily Memphian Politics Podcast, says the Georgia model of bringing activists and organizers into the state party machinery will take time — probably six to 10 years to take Tennessee from red to purple.

    By Bill Dries January 08, 2021
  • Elections

    Dunavant: Local prosecutions could come for Capitol rioting

    U.S. Attorney Michael Dunavant issued a statement Friday saying the Department of Justice and the FBI would pursue charges against Mid-Southerners who participated in rioting at the U.S. Capitol.

    By Yolanda Jones January 08, 2021
  • Elections

    How Tennessee’s two Senators and the city’s two Congressmen voted on the Electoral College challenges

    The House and Senate kept late hours, resuming the Electoral College certification after a violent protest shut down the process into Wednesday evening. The session continued until just before dawn Thursday.

    By Bill Dries January 07, 2021
  • Elections

    Local pro-Trump group protests peacefully in East Memphis

    The protest of several dozen along the Poplar Corridor came before the aborted attempt in Washington D.C. to certify the Electoral College results that ended in violence.

    By Bill Dries January 06, 2021
  • Elections

    Both Democrats win Georgia Senate races, changing chamber control

    Jon Ossoff and Raphael Warnock, Democratic challengers who represented the diversity of their party’s evolving coalition, defeated Republicans David Perdue and Kelly Loeffler.

    By The Associated Press January 06, 2021
  • Elections

    City’s elected officials in D.C. respond to protesters storming Capitol

    Here is the latest from the city’s representatives in the U.S. House and Senate.

    By Bill Dries January 07, 2021
  • Elections

    Congress reconvenes after Capitol occupied by rioters

    Dozens of people breached security perimeters at the Capitol and lawmakers inside the House chamber were told to put on gas masks as tear gas was fired in the Rotunda.

    Related Story: Elected officials in D.C. respond to protesters storming Capitol

    By The Associated Press January 06, 2021

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