Sorting the Feagins situation. Rose calls local leadership a ‘disaster.’ Buckner opens campaign HQ.
Shelby County Democratic Party Chairman Willie Simon told The Daily Memphian on Friday, Feb. 20, that the local party’s primary board had questions about Marie Feagins’ lack of a primary voting record locally in the roughly two years she has lived here. (Patrick Lantrip/The Daily Memphian)
The Shelby County Election Commission’s ongoing four-day delay in posting a list of candidates qualified for the May 5 primary ballot has probably caused a few political ripples.
It also likely complicated a would-be challenge of Marie Feagins’ bid for Shelby County mayor in the Democratic primary.
But the effort to remove her from the ballot did not yield its intended results.
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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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