The Ragsdale meltdown
Rebecca Ferrar And Matt Lakin of the News Sentinel have a column Saturday in the KNS that corroborates charges made by Tyler Harber in the three part Betty Bean column in the Halls Shopper News.
While there is a deep well of both comedy and drama in the 33 pages of emails that explores the soap opera like atmosphere of the KNOX GOP these emails ask the larger question, how can there not be an investigation of Tyler Harber?
Monday at 2:00 PM Knox County Commission will vote on whether the Commission should investigate Tyler Harber’s employment with Knox County. 13 votes are required and Friday Knox County Commissioner Lumpy Lambert said on AM 1180 that 9 votes are available and the remaining 4 votes may come in over the weekend.
People years from now will ask how this whole thing blew up so badly. It appears that the desire for the KNOX GOP mailing list was a powerful lure and when this prize collided with Mayor Mike Ragsdale’s temper there was an explosion. If Mayor Ragsdale had not called Chad Tindell and lost his temper, as Tyler Harber alleges, perhaps this whole affair would have not ignited.
Many people will be upset no matter has this is resolved. Now Knox County awaits the decision of County Commission. What will they decide?
Updates:
In today’s News Sentinel an article by Matt Lakin quotes Knox County Sheriff Tim Hutchison as saying that a law was broken in the theft of emails from former Knox GOP Chairman Chad Tindell.
Terry Frank informs readers of her blog that two local radio hosts who were subjected to Team Ragsdale dirty tricks have written a letter to Knox County Commission. Lloyd Daugherty and Kelvin Moxley tell of how Tyler Harber went to the Knox County Health Department and attempted to obtain their medical records.
Betty Bean spoke this morning on the Lloyd Daugherty radio program on AM 1180 that, “former GOP head Chad Tindell was “threatened” by Mike Arms, Chief of Staff to County Mayor Mike Ragsdale, regarding the possible investigation of the County Mayor’s office stemming from allegations made by former Ragsdale employee, Tyler Harber.”
This story did not run this morning in the News Sentinel but may run on Tuesday.
