A flub on qualifying petition limits G.A. Hardaway’s options
State Representative G.A. Hardaway failed to get enough signatures to qualify for the August primary. (The Daily Memphian file)
State Representative G.A. Hardaway has some decisions to make after a monumental flub of some of the basics of running for elected office.
A campaign worker gathered signatures on his qualifying petition to get on the May 5 ballot in the Democratic primary for House District 93. Those signatures must be voters who live within the district with an address that matches the address on their voter registration.
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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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