Lexie Carter elected local Democratic Party chairwoman
Lexie Carter is the new chairwoman of the Shelby County Democratic Party, selected in a Saturday, April 1, vote by the local party’s executive committee. (Bill Dries/The Daily Memphian)
Carter claimed the chairmanship in the most Democratic county in the state Saturday, April 1, by three votes over rival Jesse Huseth.
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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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