Shelby County GOP leader: No ‘ideological litmus test’ as party rebuilds

By , Daily Memphian Published: February 28, 2019 12:18 PM CT
<strong>Lee Mills, right, outgoing chairman of the Shelby County Republican Party, hands a gavel to new chairman Chris Tutor during the party's 2019 convention at Arlington High School Feb. 24, 2019.&nbsp;Tutor talked of leading the local GOP "out of the wilderness" with candidates that represent "every swath of this community."</strong> (Brandon Dill/Special To The Daily Memphian)

Lee Mills, right, outgoing chairman of the Shelby County Republican Party, hands a gavel to new chairman Chris Tutor during the party's 2019 convention at Arlington High School Feb. 24, 2019. Tutor talked of leading the local GOP "out of the wilderness" with candidates that represent "every swath of this community." (Brandon Dill/Special To The Daily Memphian)

Shelby County Republican Party chairman Chris Tutor says his conservative views expressed at a party convention Sunday are his own beliefs but don't reflect the platform of the local party as it rebuilds. 

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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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