VOL. 126 | NO. 188 | Tuesday, September 27, 2011
By Bill Dries
Updated 10:32PMMemphis Mayor A C Wharton Jr. has a ballot for the Memphis City Council races on the Oct. 6 ballot.
The ballot hit the streets this weekend, as the last full week of early voting began, with a set of Wharton endorsements in some but not all of the 13 council races on the ballot.
Wharton has endorsed challenger Rosalyn Nichols over incumbent Janis Fullilove in the Super District 8 Position 2 race, according to Deidre Malone of the Wharton campaign.
Wharton made no endorsement in the district 6 council race in which incumbent Edmund Ford Jr. is seeking re-election. Ford?s father, Edmund Ford Sr., is among those challenging Wharton in the race for mayor.
Wharton also decided to stay out of the Super District 9 Position 1 showdown between incumbent Kemp Conrad and challenge Paul Shaffer. The same municipal labor unions backing Shaffer are also backing the elder Ford in his challenge of Wharton.
Wharton picked University of Memphis Law School professor Lee Harris in the 14 candidate District 7 council race, the only council race without an incumbent seeking re-election.
Wharton made the decision to get involved in the council races after members of his campaign staff met three or four times to hammer out who they would recommend to him. Wharton accepted their recommendations.
Source: http://www.memphisdailynews.com/news/2011/sep/27/wharton-makes-choices-in-council-races/
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