The Memphis City Council is suing the commission that oversees the city’s elections for removing three gun control questions from the November ballot after top Republican state leaders threatened to withhold tens of millions of dollars in state funding. Council Chairman JB Smiley Jr.
MEMPHIS, Tenn. — The Memphis City Council on Friday sued the commission that oversees the Tennessee city’s elections for removing threequestions from the November ballot after top Republican state leaders threatened to withhold tens of millions of dollars in state funding.
“Memphis has been shot and is bleeding out,” council member Jerri Green said. She then accused the super-majority of Republicans in the state Legislature of going against “their stated values.”Gun control initiatives to be left off Memphis ballot after GOP threat to withhold funds“There is nothing patriotic about refusing to let citizens use their voices in the voting booth,” Green said. “There is nothing pro-life about flooding our streets with weapons of war.
In a statement Tuesday, Shelby County Administrator of Elections Linda Phillips said Goins guides the county’s elections and the commission followed his direction in Members inside Tennessee’s white-majority Legislature have long singled out majority-Black, left-leaning Memphis, criticizing city leaders for how they have managed crime rates and how they were responding to the issue.
Last year, Memphis received nearly $78 million from the state’s sales tax revenue. The city currently operates an $858 million budget.
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