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Wednesday, September 19, 2012

Memphis City Council Vote Count


The Commercial Appeal has the vote count from yesterday's debate on the non-discrimination ordinance.

Vote on including sexual orientation in the ordinance

Aye: Shea Flinn, Edmund Ford Jr., Janis Fullilove, Lee Harris, Reid Hedgepeth, Myron Lowery and Jim Strickland.

No: Bill Boyd, Joe Brown, Harold Collins, Kemp Conrad and Bill Morrison.

Abstain: Wanda Halbert

Vote to delay the measure for 30 days 

Aye: Boyd, Brown, Collins, Conrad, Flinn, Ford, Halbert, Morrison and Strickland.

No: Fullilove, Harris and Lowery voted against the delay.

Abstain: Hedgepeth

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