A history of Shelby County Mayor Lee Harris’ vetoes
Shelby County Mayor Lee Harris has vetoed six resolutions or ordinances approved by the Shelby County Commission during his tenure as mayor. (Ziggy Mack/Special to The Daily Memphian file)
Shelby County Mayor Lee Harris has vetoed six resolutions or ordinances approved by the Shelby County Board of Commissioners in his seven years as the county’s chief executive.
That includes his veto of the ordinance that moved all nine seats on the Memphis-Shelby County Schools board to the 2026 election cycle. The County Commission overrode the veto Monday, Oct. 27, on an 8-4 vote.
The vetoes are a mix of those overridden by the commission — others that were settled without an override vote after Harris agreed to work with the commission to resolve the differences cited in his veto. And there was a veto of an item that ultimately didn’t have enough votes on the commission but got to the mayor’s desk anyway.
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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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