having Betty Bean on his show (assuming I've missed it, and she can correct me) to discuss this matter. If you ask me, get it straight from the horse's mouth ;-)

What an idiot. Either way, his political career is dimming.

Ragsdale's problem is Ragsdale. Live by the sword die by the sword. He thinks this was the best time to confront the problem. The Midway Industrial Park has been approved, the Hardin Valley High School pushed back to the School Board, and all the TIF's have been rubber stamped. There was no vote last Monday for a Grand Jury.

In his myopic world of arrogance and avarice this was the perfect time to confront the problem. Unfortunately for him he is not a skilled liar. If you listen to just the sound of his voice he does pretty well. When you watch him on TV you want to play high stakes poker with him. Few politicians of his caliber have so many obvious "tells". Without Mike Arms it is doubtful Ragsdale could have gone very far. Remove Arms and this political machine will collapse like a house of cards.

The biggest problem you have when you run a political machine by intimidation is that you have an armies of enemies waiting for you to slip up and these days the sixth floor is slicker than greased owl shit.

neither of which has been exhibited by the Ragsdale administration and to the extent there is a silver lining, Ragsdale's last 4 years in the County Mayor's position, will be the last 4 years of his political career, what once opened with promise and possibility will go down as wallowing in cronyism and political grandstanding trying to beat down the opposition in traditional Nixonian methoods. Nixon has his attributes and some positives, Ragsdale has none.