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Registry of Election Finance cuts Towns $44,100 break

By , Daily Memphian Updated: April 03, 2020 3:35 PM CT | Published: April 03, 2020 3:35 PM CT

The Registry of Election Finance held an email vote just before the April 2 qualifying deadline and cut a civil penalty against state Rep. Joe Towns by $44,100, enabling him to run for re-election.

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Sam Stockard

Sam Stockard

Sam Stockard is a Nashville-based reporter with more than 30 years of journalism experience as a writer, editor and columnist covering the state Legislature and Tennessee politics for The Daily Memphian.


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