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October 28, 2007
Littlefield Gives Middle Finger To Citizens, City Council & Logic.
Folks, I've always assumed that those reading these web postings have a certain level of knowledge about the workings of their government, because why else would you be reading a web site about a government official.
So, I assume when Ron Littlefield says that he's giving Marti Rutherford a job for two days to sort out the issues of extending Hamill Road in Hixson that you automatically know he's saluting you with a Bronx Cheer.
But, maybe you are unfamiliar with how the inner-workings of a city operate, so pardon me if I offend, but believe me when I tell you that residential realtors have nothing to do with road planning or building. There are no transferable skills between the two professions.
Highly-trained professionals at the Regional Planning Agency work with the Dept. of Public Works on those matters. You may get upset when your daily commute takes too long and think that you could do a better job of designing the roads. You couldn't. Me either.
The professionals at the RPA have years of high-level education and real world experience under their belt before they start working on complex matters like road-building and infrastructural connectedness.
To propose that Marti Rutherford is just going to jump into the Hamill Road extension project and give any meaningful input in 16 hours is beyond insulting. It's beyond ludicrous. It's uncharted territory for brazen, backroom Chattanooga politics.
You might be able to say that Marti is willing to get involved for her constituents. I'll give you that. Of course, only the ones she particularly likes (there are Brainerd Road merchants who could tell you stories on this matter). But no one who's involved in city government will say that she's whip-smart or a quick study. Or anyone you'd want in a planning capacity. In fact, everyone who knows her knows she's just a busy-body (this word stands in place of another 'B' word) in a mu-mu who thinks that if she pushes hard enough she'll get her way. The last two months of newspaper headlines will back that up.
Of all of the fake jobs for Ron to throw up as a sham to cover for his attempt to cheat the system to help a should-have-been criminal*--this was a bad choice. It's the capper of the monumental mistakes that he's making with his city hall career.
But still, unless someone credible steps up to run against him, the disgusting games will continue into his next term at city hall. And our city continues to tread water with no champion at its helm.
Of course, we still don't have the real reason Ron is doing this. Perhaps someday he'll think us worthy of an explanation.
*Is it just me, or does anyone else think that the city attorney should have moved forward with a legal case against Marti for the crime of deception that she intentionally committed? Something feels fishy about stopping the proceedings just because she resigned. I wonder if she'll try to sue and we will regret not letting a judge and or jury sort this out.
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