Stop the Ragsdale Investigation?
Today’s Metro Pulse has an editorial titled “Sleuth Not,
County Commission should stick to its legislative role, leave law enforcement to the ‘laws’”.
Really? So when the Knox County District Attorney Randy Nichols refuses to enforce the law Knox County Commission should look the other way? I find that incomprehensible. The Metro Pulse editorial closes with, “The commissioners should get back to their duties as legislators and stop wasting their and the public’s time. They were elected to serve on a legislative body, not as a board of gumshoes.”
If you listen to this radio interview with Chad Tindell, what do you think should be done? Tindell says that Knox County Mayor Mike Ragsdale’s Chief of Staff Mike Arms pressured Tindell to not press charges against Tyler Harber or Arms would give the emails stolen from Tindell to the Knoxville News Sentinel. There is a legal term for what Arms did. It is an actionable crime with harsh penalty.
In Frank Cagle’s column in this weeks Metro Pulse Cagle writes that Mike Arms has called Tindell’s statement Monday the 23rd on AM 1180 a “complete fabrication.” Cagle writes, “OK. But Arms is known for his temper. I also have a list of about a dozen people who have had their jobs, careers, businesses or reputations threatened by Team Ragsdale. You have seen the memo forbidding county functions at a Mike Chase restaurant because he had the temerity to oppose Ragsdale in the recent election.”
How clear does it have to be? We have a problem in Knox County that the two Mikes that occupy the sixth floor are above the law. What makes them so special?
