Stockard on the Stump: Towns’ departure opens seat for Shelby Dems appointment

Thirty-two years after entering the Tennessee House, Rep. Joe Towns said farewell, resigning his District 84 post following his victory in the Criminal Court Clerk’s race in Memphis where, presumably, he won’t have to fiddle with the state Registry of Election Finance anymore. Towns, an old-school Democrat who does a decent Louis Armstrong impersonation, captured […]