Wharton remains mum on county employees who wil follow him to the city

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With transition conversation focusing mostly, at this point, on personnel, Memphis Mayor-elect A C Wharton isn't saying who in Shelby County Government will move with him across the street.

But the two-term county mayor did reveal that some will follow.

"There will be some," he said earlier this week. "My top people closest around me, many of them will go with me but I'm not naming any names."

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