Sun
Jan 21 2007
07:22 pm
The Aftermath
By: knoxnative

I know all the Knox County politicians and office holders are busy thinking about how they can benefit personally from the current situation. I wonder if they are thinking at all about the aftermath? Do they care at all about what people think of them as a person?

If they select their insiders and cronies in order to try to keep a hand in, they are going to do a lot of damage to whatever good name they have left. People are already disgusted with the whole process. It's a shame that greed and disregard for the people they are supposed to serve is going to erase any good these officeholders may have done in the past.

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Rachel's picture

Do they care what people think about them?

Submitted by Rachel on Sun, 2007/01/21 - 7:41pm.

No.

They think they can continue with business as usual. Business as usual works partly because few citizens pay attention. Citizens are paying attention now, but it remains to be seen if they'll still care the next time they go to the ballot box.

Bbeanster's picture

Some of their plans won't be

Submitted by Bbeanster on Sun, 2007/01/21 - 7:46pm.

Some of their plans won't be immediately obvious. For example, if Billy Tindell becomes a "seat warmer" in the clerk's office until next year's elections, expect one of the commissioners to run for that seat. My money's on Scoobie Moore.

Sam's picture

I am curious about

Submitted by Sam on Sun, 2007/01/21 - 10:49pm.

I am curious about something? How many years will it be before the term-limited ones can run again for the same office? Can they run for a different office at the next election?

I do think we the voters should remember them and all the problems they have cost us.

Patricia's picture

You may have something

Submitted by Patricia on Mon, 2007/01/22 - 12:01am.

Some of their plans won't be immediately obvious. For example, if Billy Tindell becomes a "seat warmer" in the clerk's office until next year's elections, expect one of the commissioners to run for that seat. My money's on Scoobie Moore.

I have to agree. I met Sgoober and his wife Malibu Barbie at the Halls Senior center last spring. She seemed nice enough and was quite talkative at the time (Scrungie was off to one side, busy smiling and lying to a group of seniors). She told me that she wished that Scrappie would run for a fee office because "at least they pay good". I remember she mentioned that he planned to get into a better paying office after this term. I suppose that's what she meant.

Bbeanster's picture

Too funny! Malibu Barbie,

Submitted by Bbeanster on Mon, 2007/01/22 - 8:55am.

Too funny!
Malibu Barbie, btw, works for the sheriff, as do at least two other members of Scoob's family.

Mark Siegel's picture

Alas

Submitted by Mark Siegel on Mon, 2007/01/22 - 10:27am.

I fear that their "good names" are not a consideration.

If they were worried about their good names, would five of them have filed a lawsuit trying to invalidate the charter they had all sworn an oath to defend, for the sole purpose of perpetuating their political jobs?

They not only swore to defend the county government, they were all in a position to address any deficiencies in the charter for at least eight years, and didn't.

Poor Billy Tindell was not only sworn to defend the government, and didn't do anything to correct any problems -- he actually served on the committee that wrote the charter, and STILL was one of the ones who sued to throw it out.

And virtually all of them supported the suit, whether their names were on it or not.

So are they worried about their good names? I don't think so.

To me, the fact that some of these people were otherwise good public servants, and still were willing to compromise their integrity so completely for no other reason than their political survival, shows just what a good idea terms limits is.

The worst thing is that the numbers of people who even care what these politicians do is in the low hundreds, not the thousands needed to create concern in the incumbents. The reason I say this is the results of the 2006 Knox County elections.

Where were all these people then who are now supposed to be watching the political shennigans so carefully, and will remember them later on? I wish there were hordes of these people out there, ready to hold the incumbents accountable. The evidence just seems to the contrary.

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