Primary ejections and the county clerk candidate who survived
The Tennessee Democratic Party removed five candidates from the local Democratic primaries, all whom had qualified by the Feb. 20 deadline to file qualifying petitions with the Shelby County Election Commission. (Patrick Lantrip/The Daily Memphian file)
Out of eight candidates kicked off the May 5 Democratic and Republican county primary ballot by the two state parties, one has made it back onto the ballot after a successful appeal to the Tennessee Democratic Party.
James “Jeff” Fuller Sr., a small business owner and FedEx employee, returns to the Democratic primary for Shelby County clerk — the largest field of contenders on the May ballot, even without Fuller.
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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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