Inside Sheriff Floyd Bonner’s move to run for Memphis Mayor
Shelby County Sheriff Floyd Bonner Jr.,(middle) is greeted by supporters after announcing his entering the Memphis Mayor’s race on Tuesday, October 25, 2022. Bonner joins former Shelby County commissioner Van Turner and Downtown Memphis Commission president Paul Young. (Mark Weber/The Daily Memphian)
How to handle crime in Memphis will dominate Bonner’s mayoral platform. Meanwhile, another contender in the race told supporters Tuesday the next mayor shouldn’t be someone who will “keep us steady”
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Bill Dries covers city and county government and politics. He is a native Memphian and has been a reporter for more than 40 years.
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