County hosts ‘Real Estate Road Show’

Shelby County Trustee David Lenoir and the Shelby County land Bank will hold a “Real Estate Road Show” on Thursday to raise awareness among investors about the number of properties being held by the county’s Land Bank.

Shelby County holds more than 3,000 parcels in the Land Bank with thousands more added each year, a situation furthered department includes the state Election Coordinator’s Office, how many people were not given a correct ballot and not allowed to vote in their “preferred primary or rightful district,” whether there is a uniform procedure at voting locations that voters are aware of and obtain the correct ballot, and how many were denied ballots because of ID issues.

Goins responded by saying the “problems in Shelby County have been well documented ... (and) curity card would prevent him from accepting one of the many soccer scholarships he was offered from universities.

Salazar is now an advocate for the rights of other students like him, as well as a vocal opponent of the recent string of state antiillegal immigration legislation in other Southern states. “I have just had it with the laws in Arizona and Alabama,” he said.

In addition to the rally Tuesday night, the riders will also by the real estate collapse, Lenoir said. Those properties need to be in the hands of taxpayers, he said.

The public is invited to the first of several free 90-minute, communitywide Real Estate Road Show forums at 8:30 a.m. Thursday at the Memphis Area Association of Realtors, 6393 Poplar. A second event will be 10:30 a.m. Sept. 18 at the Central Library, 3030 Poplar.

To RSVP for either event, call 901-432-4884.

Linda Moore outside of Shelby County, we are aware of only a handful of isolated incidents, mostly involving poll worker error.”

Goins said 277 people statewide cast provisional ballots because they lacked proper photo ID, and 115 of them were counted because voters returned within two business days of election day with proper IDs. The other 162 were not counted. host a seminar on Wednesday afternoon to educate other illegal i mmigrants about their rights.

Leticia Ramirez, a resident of Phoenix and one of the original organizers of the ride, explained that part of her motivation for doing so was to make sure that law enforcement in states like Arizona got the message loud and clear.

“Come and get me.”