Democrats Seeking New Faces in 'Reboot' in Shelby County

The political vacuum in the absence of a Shelby County Democratic Party didn’t last long at all.

Following the Friday announcement from Nashville that the local party has been decertified, the Shelby County Young Democrats organization was calling Monday, Aug. 22, for younger Democrats to step up.

“We are demanding that young people are active participants in the rebuilding process,” said London Lamar of Memphis, president of the Tennessee Young Democrats, which has a chapter in Memphis. “My primary goal is to make sure that young Democrats … have the ability to sit at the table in the process of rebuilding the organization.”

Shelby County Young Democrats chairman Alvin Crook said efforts to elect Democratic candidates in the November state and federal general elections continue without interruption.

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