Politics infiltrates festivals; school board races show signs of life
People check out all of the different vendors during Saturday’s 52nd annual Germantown Festival at the Germantown Civic Club Complex. (Brad Vest/Special to The Daily Memphian)
In less than a year, county elections will have been decided and the winners will have taken their oaths of office.
And probably some of the winners along with some of the losers and partisans of both camps will have retreated to the string of late summer to early fall festivals across Shelby County including the Germantown Festival.
At this year’s edition of the festival at C. O. Franklin Park, it was hard to find any indication of the campaigns to come. But the Shelby County Republican Party kept the flame of politics within the confines of its booth.
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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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