Read the room: Push for county commissioners to ‘vote your party’ on school board gets chilly response
Edmund Ford Jr. (right) in a 2024 file photo with Shelby County Commissioner Amber Mills, had no use for urgings for commissioners to vote along party lines. (Brad Vest/Special to The Daily Memphian)
The 13-member Shelby County Commission has a nine-vote Democratic super majority.
So an appeal to vote the party line on any given issue would seem to be a lopsided 9-4 vote.
But it’s not that simple given the unique alliances and views on the current commission.
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Memphis-Shelby County Schools board Shelby County Commission Edmund Ford Jr. John Rose Jerri Green Subscriber OnlyWe’re in the final countdown of 2025. ⌛🪩🎉
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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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