I sure am glad to learn that everything wrong is not the fault of the Muslims.

Bottom line, we all make mistakes....what makes them really big is when we as individuals try to crucify those who we don't know for gain of our individual causes.

In theory, people run for office to represent the citizens. In order to represent citizens, you have to be willing to answer to them. If asking a question is to “crucify” – you and I have a different take on what crucifixion is.

In other places politicians have a love – hate relationship with the press. In Knox County, citizens got to see many of Tim Hutchison’s good work as sheriff. They got to see the highlights of bringing in the bad guy, buying helicopters and the like. The same paper that covered those stories also covered “Black Wednesday” in the Knox City/County building. That day voters got to see another side of Hutchinson and in this last election, they had the final say in the form of a vote.

It doesn’t matter if the question of “when did you know of the Hatch Act?” was asked and response was; “Some time ago”, “that day” or “no comment” - the question should be asked.

In the end, at a bare minimum, citizens have the right to believe that those entrusted with writing rules, codes, restrictions and laws – know them and can follow them. And it’s the job of the press to let the voting public know whether or not those entrusted are up to the task.

The AshkeNazi Khazar non-semitic jews who own and operate the private "Federal" Reserve Bank have stolen $30-trillion so-called "US dollars" ("Federal" Reserve Debt Notes) from Congress in the past 24 months, which was exported to foreign banks in secret accounts Congress is prohibited from knowing about under threat of martial law, while paying local banks interest to NOT loan money from the Bankster Bailout Bills. BTW the "Federal" Reserve Act was illegally passed by 3 senators at midnight on Christmas Eve in 1913, that stole the money making power from Congress and gave it to their private bank, which counterfeits all money out of thin air then loans it to the govt at interest. Now 100% of fed income tax revenue is given to this private bank, with zero "dollars" going to run the govt. All money now spent by the fed govt is borrowed, much of it from Communist China. The "Fed" Bank pulled this same stunt of stopping the supply of money for loans to cause the First Great Depression. The "Fed" Bank has never been audited since 1913, and in 2010 Congress killed the bill to audit for the first time. Know your enemy if you want to survive. What Would Martin Luther Say?

Monopoly Men of the "Federal" Reserve
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-7065177340464808778#

America Freedom to Fascism
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-1656880303867390173#

Congressman Dennis Kucinich: "The Federal Reserve is no more federal than Federal Express"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VUlobclSPY8

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c5jsiLWXGYQ
"Jews don't come to live in Israel because they are too busy swindling the non-Jews among whom they live."
-Jew in Israel, Defamation, London Jewish Film Festival
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2010/jan/15/yoav-shamir-film-palestinians
http://www.defamation-thefilm.com

Semite.
1 a : a member of any of a number of peoples of ancient southwestern Asia including the Akkadians, Phoenicians, Hebrews, and ARABS - b : a descendant of these peoples - 2 : a member of a modern people speaking a Semitic language.
—Merriam Webster Dictionary

"A 'Semite' is any person living in that area, including Arabs and Christians. It's time we start talking about 'The Other AntiSemitism'. A Semite is not a Jew living in America or Europe."
—Ralph Nader (Arab-American from Lebannon), Arab-American Business conference, C-SPAN, 2003

“The possessions of the goyim are like an ownerless desert, and everybody (every Jew) who seizes it, has acquired it.”
-Jewish Babylonian Talmud, IV/3/54b

“Jews always have to try to deceive Non-Jews.”
-Jewish Babylonian Talmud, Zohar I, 168a

“Every Jew is allowed to use lies and perjury to bring a Non-Jew to ruin.”
-Jewish Babylonian Talmud, Babha Kama 113a

“The Non-Jews have been created to serve the Jews as slaves.”
-Jewish Babylonian Talmud, Midrasch Talpioth 225

“When the Messiah comes, all will be slaves of the Jews.”
-Jewish Babylonian Talmud, Erubin 43b

"Our race is the Master Race. We are divine gods on this planet. We are as different from the inferior races, as they are from insects. In fact, compared to our race, other races are beasts and animals, cattle at best. Other races are considered as human excrement. Our destiny is to rule over the inferior races. Our earthly kingdom will be ruled by our leader with a rod of iron. The masses will lick our feet and serve us as our slaves."
-Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin, speech to Kenneset

Israeli Law of Return only allows citizenship for jews
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Law_of_Return
http://www.nytimes.com/1989/12/27/world/israeli-court-rules-jews-for-jesus-cannot-automatically-be-citizens.html

"Even an act of kindness by a Christian toward a Jew, such as giving a gift of food, can be interpreted as trying to convert the Jew to Christianity and can bring a 5 year prison sentence."
-Jew Jack Bernstein, assassinated by Mossad
http://healtheland.wordpress.com/2008/12/16/christian-persecution-alert-messianic-jews-arrested-in-israel/

"Once we squeeze all we can out of the United States, it can dry up and blow away."
-Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu, to Jonathan Pollard (convicted traitor and spy in USA) upon exiting Pollard's jail cell

"Every time we do something you tell me America will do this and will do that. I want to tell you something very clear: Don't worry about American pressure on Israel. We, the Jewish people, control America, and the Americans know it."
-Israeli prime minister Ariel Sharon, October 3, 2001

"A circumcision ritual practiced by some Orthodox Jews has alarmed city health officials, who say it may have led to three cases of herpes - one of them fatal - in infants. But after months of meetings with Orthodox leaders, city officials have been unable to persuade them to abandon the practice. The practice is known as oral suction, or in Hebrew, metzitzah b'peh: after removing the foreskin of the penis, the practitioner, or mohel, sucks the blood from the wound to clean it."
-Andy Newman, New York Times, "City Questions Circumcision Ritual After Baby Dies," August 26, 2005

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Khazars
http://www.khazaria.com
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ashkenazi
http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/Judaism/Ashkenazim.html
http://www.middle-east-online.com/english/culture/?id=35105

Harry Grothjahn at WBCR 1470am in Blount County has been asking about this since Day 1.

Hatch Act...so how do Congresscritters and Senators run for re-election?

There's something called Equal Protection in US and TN Constitutions. Google it.

Uh, I just have to ask why someone who had never attended a county commission meeting would run twice for a seat on it? I don't understand people's motivation. How do you know the commission is a good fit for your time and service without attending to see what goes on there?

Also, WW, tell us why he made an exception and went to THIS meeting? If he hadn't gone and taken the oath, I imagine it would have been much more likely for the Democratic process to be honored and the matter moved to the ballot in November. We know from the statement he read that HE already knew. Dollars to donuts some of the others knew as well. But left as it was, thanks to Carter, the Republican commission could make sure the resignation wasn't accepted in time to add the matter to the ballot. If they knew what was going to transpire in the days leading up to that first meeting, nothing would have prevented them from adding "declaring a vacancy" to the agenda or even adding a separate "called meeting."

If the USPS does as good a job of explaining the Hatch Act as they say they do, the incumbent should have simply been unopposed on the ballot - which, as it turns out, he actually was.

Either way, the public trust was violated and the very first campaign promise was broken: the promise to serve.

Oh, and he really couldn't do it during the agenda because it wasn't on there.

"Not only did he take his oath, he voted on four issues during the special called meeting BEFORE resigning during the Off-the-Agenda portion of the agenda. "

Linda, you are so funny. Someone who had never attended a commission meeting, never attended a republican function until he run for office, Someone "new" to the fray....out of everyone I thought you would have given a benefit of the doubt. So tell me, is your group registered as a PAC? Do you all spend money trying to influence voting of the public or the commission? Let's see what the election laws say about that.

Bottom line, we all make mistakes....what makes them really big is when we as individuals try to crucify those who we don't know for gain of our individual causes.

Not only did he take his oath, he voted on four issues during the special called meeting BEFORE resigning during the Off-the-Agenda portion of the agenda.

Y'all:

Might makes right!

In the republic of Texas they have a sayin' (referring to the acquisition of Texas):

We stole it FAR AND SQUAR.

MetroPulse September 1 published a letter from Nina Gregg clarifying a few items from the original article. See:

http://www.metropulse.com/news/2010/sep/01/sounds-familiar/?printer=1/

Nearly forgot to blame the AFI-CIO. Somehow this is the union's fault.

Carter got the same candidate package as everyone else.
He failed to read it. He failed to follow the instructions on reporting his income sources to the state as required within 30 days of the last qualifing date. That would be 2-18 so the form was due 3-18.
Carter's is dated 4-29, a few days before the election.

The State Ethics Commission is not charged with enforcing anything but filing the forms. They are charged with collecting a $1,000 fine from candidates who willfully fail to file or file late.

No one who works at the local post offices reads the papers to know Carter was running in a partisan election?
No one who works at the local post offices votes in that district?
None of the local GOB fanatics double checks anything?
Not one of those Commissioners in the video was the least bit surprised when Carter read his statement.
THEY KNEW. THEY ALL KNEW it was coming.

Can I believe that Mr. Carter did not know, sure......

Can I believe too? Sure, but since day one of the press accounts, nobody has asked when he knew.

The swearing in ceremony was at 9am and over around 10am. After the ceremony, the Republican Women hosted a reception. The special called commission meeting started at 11am.

Mr. Carter stated he found out through “researching” the matter on his own.

He either researched this between 10am and 11am or he knew before he was sworn in.

I think the press should give the people of the 1st district the accurate account of how that happened. And you?

"... can I believe that the Blount GOB or DEM's are smart enough to orchestrate this ... no way ..."

Do you mean GOB or GOBs?

What really burns me is Susan Mills' comment to the DT: “Shawn has displayed courage, honor and integrity in coming forth with this disclosure."

NO. It would have shown integrity if he had come clean before the swearing in ceremony. Or been honest with the voters about his probable intentions, which were to step aside after winning.

Honor would be admitting he knew this before he stepped up there to take an oath.

Can you imagine the hullabaloo if David Ballard had taken the bait and been the one to break the news to him?

Once again, hilarious....Not for Mr. Carter or Mr. Ballard. But how everyone here is ready to blame everyone but those who should stand accountable.

Every candidate must file a conflict of interest form showing where there income is coming from. This form is filed with the State and Local agencies who are charged with review and accountability for actions that need or should be taken.

Even though our tax dollars are paying thousands to someone, no one is doing the jobs they were supposed to do.

Can I believe that Mr. Carter did not know, sure...... To my know since day one he, he wife nor his family attempted to hide the fact that he was employed by the USPS.

Can I believe that Mr. Ballard did not want to accuse, sure....

Can I believe that the Blount GOB or DEM's are smart enough to orchestrate this...no way.

Mr. Carter would fit right in with a commission culture that blames the dreaded Democrats and federal government for all bad things.

" It's not my job" barked the lazy dog
" It's not my job" purred the sleepy cat .
" It's not my job" quacked the noisy yellow duck .

deep

"... how do they decide what they have done is good? Subjective morality leads to anarchy & chaos ..."

Aye, but please remember that: Without going out of my door, I can know all things on earth. Without looking out of my window, I can know the ways of heaven. The farther one travels, the less one knows, the less one really knows.