Anderson County Council Meeting (December 02)

Steelydan,

The County Council meeting on December 02 was hijacked by a group of residents, with mob mentality. They raised rude behavior to new levels.

-art-kaldas

Steely, Art has pretty much summed it up. Art we left after agenda meeting 9a, we were actually there for an item further down, but I knew another public hearing was going to be held on 9b and figured the same crowd would get up and say the same things yet again and she didn't need to sit through that again. One viewing of how the world really is for a 12 year old is enough for one night. Plus it was getting late and it was a school night.

-blogger

I don't condone ill mannered people behaving badly. Rudeness and it's ever increasing presence in public is a sign of the decline of our great society. That being said, the tone of the meeting was predictable. The way the Nov. 18th meeting was handled dictated anger and frustration would be expressed by the people who would not agree with a buyout. The people who do not believe they were represented and did not have the means to vent want(ed) an outlet. The people who supported what was done want to scream back at those who disagree. The only remedy left is to ask is if the manner employed by Council was legitimate and legal. That is where the people who feel they were wronged should expend all their energy. Once they have exhausted that possible remedy, let it go and help the county heal and move forward.

My hope that the Council votes not to have the last meeting and allow the new Council to pick up the pieces in Jan.

-1-opinion

I saw a rerun of the second half of the council meeting last night.  It just seemed like there were a lot of personal vendettas on both sides of the room.   Noone seemed prepared to actually accomplish anything except allocate the spending of as much money as they could. 

One of the few things voted on concerned recreation.  I was very disappointed when my council member was the only one not standing up for county residents and reasonable fees. At our exsisting rec center a city family pays $160 and a county family pays $480.  Ms Floyd mentioned city taxes.  I'm sorry but show me where anyone in the city pays $320/yr in rec taxes.  This particular issue clearly showed no concern for knowledge or positive representation for her district. 

I just hope the new year brings a more positive and less personal county government.

ART,

Maybe the "residents" are sick and tired of McAbee and Thompson acting like fools? If it weren't for a mob mentaility back in the ate l1700's, we would be singing "God Save the Queen", and talking with a bloody funny accent.

These folks have a right. Thompson and McAbee are not men enough to step up and listen to their concerns. Right or wrong, their concerns need to be heard and addressed.

Cheerio!

-willieh

Does this not consist of personal attacks on those council persons by Mr h ? I thought we were no longer allowed to personally attack anyone.

Petunia, Petunia, Petinia.

Personal attacks on ATZ posters by other ATZ posters are different from political attacks on elected officials. You know that. I also think you know the difference between a PERSONAL attack and a POLITICAL DEBATE. Don't you?

Petunia, Petunia, Petinia. [image]

Personal attacks on ATZ posters by other ATZ posters are different from political attacks on elected officials. You know that. I also think you know the difference between a PERSONAL attack and a POLITICAL DEBATE. Don't you?

-jdtippett

Art,

Did you remain for the duration of the meeting?   Wasn't it funny how Mark Powell, Doug Pope and Dan Harvell basically were the only respondents who addressed the council( several times), and made it clear their views reflected "the entirety of Anderson County" ?   Do they represent YOU?  I know for sure they DO NOT represent us, ALSO taxpayers and homeowners and business owners.  I have tired of these shameful and toxic individuals who claim they represent US speaking for us.  When we speak our views, we are met with the same venemous and belligerent tone as Blogger and her child were.  Nice to be accosted in the halls by the likes of Charles Crowe & his band of racist haters who assault and insult women and children, who make "gun-shooting" gestures at elected officials, who "mimmick" or practice making adolescent faces like a mental midget.  But glad they represent the whole of Anderson, of being the epitome of such VERY CHRISTIAN souls they are.

Surely I shall receive some snot-filled response about WYATT's foul language or attitude.  Surely I will!  And thats fine, whats new??  But I never assaulted, shoved, verbally berated their spouses & children, or created a scene while standing in a "safe & public" forum, surrounded by cops, media and political figures. I cannot recall when I "shot" one of them with my finger-gun.  I cannot recall saying, in Council chambers no less, the racially-charged crap I've heard said about Gracie Floyd.  I cannot recall being such a blatant dick, especially to any family excercising their constitutionally protected right to expression of gratitude for their political process and servants in the proper venue.  WYATT may not be the belle of the ball, but WYATT at least has a teensie weensy modicum of decency to not be like these *ssholes who "represent Anderson County".

Besides..... I save ALL  that hateful s**t  for this rag.  To share, with the hiders & fakes who play like they never practice such devious behavior in public. I save it for those who lie when they say they don't cheat the County, or obtain under false pretense, or take public funds, or represent themselves as devout or rightious when they are simply hateful and bitter creatures, or lie about their status or their political representation, especially when some of us know better. I save it for those who post false and racist garbage on their "websites", and proclaim people not politics.  In essence, those who put the new council in office and will realize the fruits of their backazzed mentality for the next two years.  Hope you have savings left in the bank, cuz yu'll need it for all the pending lawsuits and tax increases.

"Oh my goodness! The sky is falling! I must go and tell the king!" - Chicken Little.

Calm down, Republikin. It was only an acorn that hit you on the head. Wanna borrow my umbrella?

And the Nut croud has sucessfully gotten a majority of "their people" on the council, run off Joey Preston although he seems to had the last laugh on them with his buyout, and gearing up to run the county in the dirt.

-voice-of-reason

So VOR by your definition the majority of people who voted in Districts 3, 4, and 5 are "the Nut croud" because they voted according to their beliefs and wanted a change in council? And if the new council members are "their people" does that mean the outgoing council members were "your people"?

Maybe republikin has a running partner and a second acorn has fallen?

There's a bumper crop of nuts this year. Not all of them are on the WAIM tree.

-jdtippett

Look! There's one now!

(Sorry, Hankey, couldn't stop myself.)