Judicial candidates blossom during election year spring
Citizens vote at Whitehaven Community Center as others get their ballots ready on Election Day Tuesday, Nov. 5, 2024. (Benjamin Naylor/Special to The Daily Memphian file)
In this week’s political roundup:
- First harvest of yard signs
- New candidates in a new judicial race
- Jerri Green at Da Sammich Shop, John Rose pans Starbucks incentives and Marsha Blackburn calls for a “revisit” on a data center in Nashville
- Tennessee Republicans in U.S. House split on FISA extension
The spring crop of campaign signs in an election year has had its first harvest.
Signs for those who lost in the May primaries have vanished for the most part.
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2026 elections 2026 special judicial elections Jerri Green Marsha Blackburn John Rose Steve Cohen David Kustoff Memphis Safe Task Force Subscriber OnlyThank you for reading The Daily Memphian. Your support is critical.
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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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