Political Roundup: Why Republicans want partisan school board primaries
Shelby County Republican Party Chairman Worth Morgan was among those who used to oppose the idea of partisan school board primary elections who voted for them Thursday, May 1, at the GOP’s executive-committee meeting. (Bill Dries/The Daily Memphian)
The Shelby County Republican Party is hoping having partisan primaries in school board races will help them crawl back to relevancy in the Democratic-dominated county, even if they have little chance of winning some races.
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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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