After Mayor Harris vetoes grant, Ford moves to override
Shelby County Commissioner Edmund Ford Jr., left, is moving to override a veto by Shelby County Mayor Lee Harris, right, of his nonprofit grant. (Mark Weber/The Daily Memphian file)
Shelby County Mayor Lee Harris has vetoed a $177,000 nonprofit grant awarded by County Commissioner Edmund Ford Jr.
Ford is moving to override the veto at the commission’s June 23 meeting.
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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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