Opinion: Partisan city primaries would further divide us
Kemp Conrad
Kemp Conrad served eleven years on the city council, including serving as chairman in 2016 and 2019. He is a principal at Cushman & Wakefield | Commercial Advisors.
Partisan primaries would make Memphis city government more like the divisive dumpster fire that is today’s Washington, D.C.
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