Brent Taylor faces potential Democratic challenger in August state primaries
Sen. Brent Taylor, R-Memphis, attends a meeting of the Senate Judiciary Committee during a special session of the state legislature Tuesday, Jan. 28, 2025, in Nashville. (George Walker IV/AP Photo file)
All 13 state House incumbents and three state senators representing Shelby County have checked out qualifying petitions for the August ballot. The filing deadline for primary challengers is March 10.
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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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