1. Ron Littlefield and Dan Johnson gave Dale Mabee (Ron's campaign manager) an interest free loan to finance the $1.07 million dollar land purchase. Huh?! That has never been done in all of the downtown development that has revitalized our city. It'd be one thing if this was the first downtown construction project and it needed to succeed to build the market--like the old Riverset Apartments. But I think the ball is pretty well rolling on downtown residential and the marketplace can regulate itself. I'm not at all surprised that Ron Littlefield, a man so devoid of ethics he'd have to climb up to the bottom of the skuzzy barrel, gave his campaign manager a free loan. After all, the man has to be paid back for all the lies and character assassination he's responsible for.

2. Then they gave Dale and the Moon boys the option on the rest of the block. That wasn't even in the request for proposals (RFP) released by the city to bring in bids by competing developers. In the paper Dan 'Bankrupt Doesn't Just Describe My Morals' Johnson said it just made sense because any developer would want to control the rest of the block. Well, that may very well be the case grandad, but that developer should compete with everyone else for what gets developed on that block. It's called free enterprise. Except it's not when it's not competitively bid. Folks, this is just plain wrong.

3. Then they gave him a free alley for access to the luxury condos, which was valued at nearly $100,000. Seriously, this is amazing. This wasn't offered as part of the original RFP either. Why not just have city work crews cut down the trees and pave the alley for free as well?

We at WorstMayorEver.com have decided to leave the not-very-lucrative protest Website business and move into real estate development. The first order of business for Billy Blades & Company, LLC is to donate to the Littlefield re-election campaign. That should guarantee that we get these kind of sweetheart deals. And as a bonus, when Ron is re-elected, it'll guarantee the corruption continues for four more years!

4. Then they accepted a promissory note instead of, ya know, actual money! Excuse-the-hell-out-of-me?!? I know he's your friend and all, but if he didn't have the money to finance the project, maybe Mabee (hee! I made a funny!) should go back to building crappy McMansions in the suburbs. It's not like our country's in a credit crunch or anything, so Ron & Dan's Favors For Friends Machine can just keep cranking out the graft, with no consequences at all.

The really sweet part of all of this (Hey, it's the stinky part too--that's weird.), is that all of this started because Ron Littlefield hired a bunch of auditors to sic them on RiverCity. They found only piddling things--none illegal or unethical--less than you'd find on your average new WalMart construction project. But somehow Ron & Dan's auditors completely ignored all of this in their report. Not until the Times wrote the story this morning were the shady Deals For Dale revealed. So Littlefiend's vindictive nature has come back to bite him in the ass. Make's a person believe that justice can prevail. Sorry, a little optimism about our city government slipped through. I'll get a handle on that.

For the record, hiring auditors to look into those who use the public's funds is a good thing. But the city charter dictates that they report to the City Council, not the mayor. The City Council controls all the money, so why would you have the people who check the books report to the person whose books they are checking? So you can control what they look at and report, obviously. This reporting structure has been wrong for a while, it just took someone of Littlefield's (lack of) character to misuse it.

It's time for the City Council to look into all of this. It's time for the City Council to bring the auditors under their purview. And it's almost time for a serious candidate to step up and declare that this kind of thing is going to stop.

p.s. I [heart] Dave Flessner.

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It's clumsy and cheap, but Ron Littlefield, Chattanooga's Worst Mayor Forever and Ever Amen, has launched a public letter-writing campaign against former Mayor Corker. [Yes I know he's a US Senator now and that would make a foolish target in your mayoral campaign, but I'll unpack the whole case in a sec, trust me.] Thanks to my amazing team of WorstMayorEver.com field reporters, I've got the scoopage.

If you're an involved Chattanoogan--and face it, if you're reading this, you are--you've probably seen these letters to the editor on John Wilson's Chattanoogan.com.

On March 26 Renee McIntosh wrote the following:

Waterfront Was Completed In Time For What?

Renee McIntosh

Renee's just a tax-paying citizen, like you or me, right? Why wouldn't she resent Corker for working his ass off to accomplish a decades work in three years? How dare he. She just hates that gorgeous waterfront of ours and preferred when it looked like a loading dock on the Jersey shore. So what that Corker spent months and months making the civic rounds raising much of the money from the private sector? Renee resents that kind of thing, as would any right-thinking person, ya know? I mean that's what moved her to write a letter about $150 grand in cracks in a $120 MILLION dollar project, yes?

No. Renee's not an average, unconnected citizen. Renee McIntosh is Lanis Littlefield's best friend.

On the same day, another watchdog hero among us was similarly compelled to write this fact-deprived missive:

Questions On The Sinking Slabs

Ben Brychta
Hixson

Such righteous indignation! Such engineering knowledge! Such total BS! Because Ben Brychta is a certified Friend of Ron and you can check it out for yourself a couple of times a month when they can be seen at the IHOP enjoying a short stack of pancakes while concocting a giant stack of crap.

Notice all the names listed in the letters. This wasn't about the waterfront so much as it was about denigrating Corker-era works.

You see, Ron's team of evil genius' (Hi Dale!) have decided that one election tactic that will be really hard to fight is when a competitor picks up the theme from this Web site and points out how poorly this administration has performed when compared to the last one. And the one before that. (Actually, you can keep going ad infinitum. That's what being the worst ever means.)

You would think they'd have learned about the foolishness of the staged letter of outrage by now.

So Ron Littlefield thinks that if he can smear Corker for having the audacity to work hard and quickly to make big, bold civic improvements that will benefit this community for decades, he can lower the public sentiment about Bob Corker enough that he won't look so bad in comparison. And then of course they can start in on people who might actually be running against them next spring.

First of all, with or without cracks, the Waterfront is a thing of beauty and it's been embraced as Chattanooga's front yard. Just go down there on any Friday night or sunny Saturday. Secondly, the investment in the waterfront has already had a positive return on investment, and you can ask anyone at the CVB or a south shore business owner. Engineers will fix whatever's wrong and kids will be hoppin' around in the water in no time. Really dumb tactic. I'm sure worse is coming.

Ron, it's not gonna happen this time like it did last time. When you pull dirty tricks, we're going to expose them. The tricks may still work, but people are going to see behind the curtain and understand the depths you'll plumb to stay in power.

Oh, btw some people in Guy Fawkes masks asked me to deliver this message:

Hello Littlefiend. The past was prelude. The Internet has come for you.
Love, Anonymous.

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The jobs'll come out
Tomorrow
Bet your bottom dollar
That Tomorrow
There'll be jobs!

Just thinkin' about Tomorrow
Helps avoid The Awkward
That there's nothing
Going on!

When I'm stuck with a mayor
That's lame,
And sleazy,
I just stick out my finger
And linger
To say,
Oh!

Not a thing will come out
Tomorrow
Not a train to Georgia
Or new Downtown retail
Hear what I say?

Tomorrow! Tomorrow!
Ron loves ya Tomorrow!
You're always
An election cycle a-way!

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Today's Times Free Press story had a lot of interesting information. Like Councilman Pierce saying that he gives up trying to work with the Mayor on the project because when dealing with Ron, it's "my way or no way."

The most outrageous bit was when Ron "compared the homeless project to the three-year, $120 million waterfront revitalization effort overseen by his predecessor, Bob Corker. He said the riverfront endeavor required extensive preparation, and so will this one."

Uh. Where to begin. Littlefield's homeless debacle is to Corker's riverfront project as Britney Spears is to responsible motherhood. How can Ron be foolish enough to compare his hairy turd of a project to Corker's shiny riverfront diamond? Wow. Can he be so clueless as to believe he can spin his Homeless Hilton crap into Waterfront gold just through the power of his words? Sorry Ron, the whole thing was ill-conceived and poorly executed and someone will soon be using it (and the suspicious financing and favors-for-friends related to the land acquisition) against you during the upcoming mayoral campaign.

In Michael Davis' excellent story, Ron Littlefield, Chattanooga's Worst Mayor Ever, admitted that there's no plan to make his homeless complex actually happen, but that he hoped that if he bought the property an opportunity would come along to bring his unformed dream to reality. That's the kind of mayor we have folks - a wing and a prayer. Except the wing cost Chattanooga's taxpayers $775,000. Good news though--prayers are still free.

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To address the first part, Ron Littlefield gets all giddy about this kind of made-for-tv-news gesture because politics is all a game to him. It certainly isn't business and that's why NOTHING IS GOING ON AT CITY HALL.

I'm assuming he found a way to pay for a truck full of bottled water to be delivered to Atlanta through some private means (though not his own pocket--never that.). But this isn't the lead up to the big game versus our rival school. His gesture is an embarrassment and I'm shocked that he'd be so short-sighted as to do it. It doesn't address the real issue of Georgia trying to steal St. Elmo from us, but it does stand a chance to piss them off enough to keep trying. And the bit where his assistant is delivering the water wearing a coonskin cap and head-to-toe buckskins is jaw-droppingly stupid. We're trying to sell Chattanooga as the hippest new spot to plant your new-media, high-tech company and he's making us out to be hillbillies? I know he can't seem to do anything to proactively help our city, but does he have to make it hard for those who are actually working? Astonishing.

Remember the dress-up party Ron threw to re-open our modernized City Hall? This is the same thing. It's always the week of homecoming for Ron Littlefield and he's the head of the float committee. Except that this isn't a Mickey Rooney movie, and we deserve more than a head cheerleader as our mayor.

After you read the smart-alec proclamation, did you laugh? Were you amused that your civic leader had pulled so childish a stunt? Maybe you were, or maybe you rolled your eyes. What I wonder is, if you voted for Ron Littlefield in 2005, do you regret your vote?

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Like they taught him in journalism school, Davis put the good stuff up front. In the 2nd graph he quotes Ron saying:

“I would like not to have to devote so much attention to a potentially divisive and difficult campaign,” he said. “I’d like to keep working with the county and the Chamber and not have my attention drawn away to deal with diversions like a tumultuous and difficult campaign.”

He never even considered that the campaign could be a contest between two intelligent, well-meaning people who both have the good of the community at heart, but might disagree on how to go about making their vision for a well-run city come to pass.

Nope. Ron Littlefield, who is, make no mistake, the Worst Mayor this town has Ever seen, is letting all potential candidates know right up front that he'll get just as down-and-dirty as he did the last time. If you want your reputation smeared beyond recognition, go ahead, run for mayor. His Rovian minions are just dying to go to work on the fool that would dare to try to unseat him.

Ron Littlefield is the Hillary Clinton of Tennessee Valley politics. He will do and say anything to get and keep power. Why? Why did he want to be mayor so desperately when he's done nothing to show for it? Power. Right Billy Long? Isn't power it's own reward? Well, plus the money. Don't forget the money.

While the national democrats seem to be rejecting the win-at-all-cost Clintonian tactics, it's because they have a different, better choice. Will Chattanooga find an 'Obama' to run against this man? I know I need some Change I Can Believe In, right here in River City.

By the way, David M at Rabbit Valley Road wrote something about the shame of the Hamilton County Democratic Party. He's right and I hope they arrest every single official--democrat or republican--that sees public service as some kind of right to line their pockets while gleefully violating the public trust and more to the point, the law.

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It reminded me of the first time I read the Crutchfield/Littlefield transcripts: disgusting on its face and because the 'playing' is so clearly an everyday occurrence. He doesn't see his duties in re-districting as a civic obligation to allign districts with population movement, it's just a great chance to push a possible future opponent out of the way. If you didn't read it, you need to go back and look it up.

Now today's paper has a quote from Ron saying that it is his lifelong goal to be the number three city in the state. Leaving aside the grammatical issues, I think we really must stop to ponder a leader of a city that claims a lifelong aspiration to THIRD PLACE!

I mean, it's great that Chattanooga is finally gaining population after years of decline. Frankly a lot of hard work went into that--none of it by this poser. But as I read it, I imagined Chattanoogans sitting with their morning paper wondering about the psyche of the man who is supposed to be leading the way to the future, glowing about being the third largest city in Tennessee.

I can imagine the ad agency that handles the Chamber of Commerce account went right to work on a big, "We're Number Three!" campaign.

The punch line here (well, one of them) is that we aren't number three. We're still the fourth largest city in the state. Ron, on behalf of all 168,000 of us: just shut up.

On a personal note, I really believe that Chattanooga is far, far better than Knoxville, a city I find to be ugly and a blight. I like Chattanooga better than Memphis as well. If it weren't for the Titans, the Preds and the amazing Ryman Theater, we'd be pretty damn close to Nashville too. However, I look forward to getting back to making Chattanooga the best it can be by standards somewhat higher than Ron seems to have. I just wanted to remind all of us that a better mayor is crucial to building on the momentum of past great mayors. As Tony Soprano might say, "Don't Stop Believin'."

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Now, I know Kenardo did a bad, bad thing (or five), but the man has ten years of service in at the city (or nearly that), so I know Ron wants to do the right thing here and put him back on the payroll long enough to help the man get a retirement package to support his family. I mean right is right. Fair is fair. Not.

I doubt Ron wants to start parsing the moral and ethical differences between committing voter fraud by lying on an election document (as Marti Rutherford did) and buying a little bling-bling for the ladies (as did Kenardo).

So, now that the Rule of Law is being set aside and the Let Love Rule is in place, I'm sure this is good news for former Neighborhood Services employees Mark Kleiner, Jennifer Maddox Center and Jeremiah McGill as well (though I'm not sure where they are on their retirement track).

I'm guessing that Marti left some work yet to do on the Hamill Road extension 'work' that she was doing during her 3 days of employment for Ron. If these other employees can walk and chew gum, they've got all the skills that Marti brought to the 'job' and I feel sure Ron wants to 'do the right thing' for them too.

Can you feel that, Chattanooga? That warm feeling in your heart? Yes, that's what being a City of Compassion, Littlefield style, feels like. Enjoy it (just ignore that rotten smell). I hope it compensates for the light feeling in your wallet as Ron reaches in to finance his 'compassion.'

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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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"Spiteful, small and mean” and “vindictive.” If I had to pick four words to describe Ron Littlefield, and couldn't use hyphenated vulgarities, those four would do just fine. The unbelievable, truly stupefying thing is that he called the city council--the whole council, mind you, because that vote to block the Mayor's gifting of benefits to Rutherford was unanimous--those names. Called them names in the media, no less. I don't mean to break this down too far, but when you're the mayor, nothing happens for you unless you have five votes. Five votes from the city council that you just called, "spiteful, small, mean and vindictive." Well, done. Good luck getting anything done now, you hotheaded [hyphenated vulgarity meaning moron that rhymes with truck-tard].

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You may have noted in yesterday's WME entry on this subject that I mentioned that Ron Littlefield giving Marti Rutherford unearned access to the city's group health plan was 'no small gift.' Well, I chose my words carefully because of a question that lingered in my mind. The issue is this: We all know that Marti isn't an employee of the Mayor's. City Council people are not hired, they're elected. And they certainly don't report to the mayor (especially not this one and especially not now). So how do Ron and Dan Johnson simply extend benefits? Hire her as a temp? City Hall has been buzzing, but basically, we think that it will have to be officially classified as a 'gift' in the budget. However, there are very specific rules in the state code about gifts. I don't think that Littlefield can do this legally. But, I'm not a lawyer, and Roger Dickson is a damn good one. We'll find out soon enough.

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On August 30, Ron Littlefield said, "I've never questioned where her legal residence was. I don't desire to get involved in that."

Today, Ron said, "As this issue began to unfold a few weeks ago, there were a number of individuals – myself included – who attempted to work between the various interests to try and resolve things."

Which is it? You weren't involved, or you were? I'm no longer sure if Ron knows the difference between how things happen and how he wants them to have happened. It's a lie either way, but he does it so much, I wonder how he justifies the lies in his mind when they're so easy to google.

On the same note, I'm so glad that no one is falling for Ron's attempt to take the moral high ground on this issue where he's actually down in the gutter. Every time he says, 'It's the right thing to do,' I am exasperated at how dumb he thinks we are. Cheating the system to help a liar is not the right thing to do. He said he was ready for the fallout of his actions. I wonder if he'll regret that arrogant attitude.

Make no mistake Chattanooga--this is the man you elected mayor. These are his ethics. This wrongheaded abuse of the system that he's been trusted with is his true heart.

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Ron Littlefield, the Worst Mayor Ever, claims that it is only a three day extension of her benefits. As usual, he's really wrong. No, Ron. It's a three year extension, because she committed a crime by intentionaly lying about her residency, deceiving her constituents and falsely representing herself as qualified for office. SHE SHOULD NEVER HAVE HAD THE BENEFITS TO BEGIN WITH! Does anyone remember Randy Nelson using the term 'felony' regarding her actions? Is that investigation ongoing?

Ron is perpetrating a scam on Chattanoogans, just like Marti did and he should be ashamed. But he isn't because he believes there are different rules when you are in public office. Which is why he loves being in public office. It sure beats workin'.

The other reason he's doing it is because he doesn't care what you think. Or more to the point, he doesn't think he can be beat because of the power of incumbancy in America. Therefore, the outrage over this will flare up, die down and go away with no lasting harm to his re-election chances. And the sad thing is that he's probably right. And that is a shame on us.

The only good news is that the Council, whom Ron thinks he controls, is appalled that Ron would inflame this issue that stopped our city government in its tracks for a full month. The Council was very deliberate and they did the right thing. Now Ron has completely disregarded them by taking this highly unethincal action. He's just going to declare it and so it shall be. So says King Ron.

Didn't the ethics legislation that was passed a couple of years ago address this? If not, remember how Chris Newton admitted he'd committed a crime and refused the insurance, because he felt he didn't deserve it? I happen to think Chris Newton is scum, but he's a scum with a conscience. Same can't be said of Ron.

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Marti believes that a city council seat is her birthright and doesn't see why she shouldn't be able to perpetuate a scam and get away with it. Did you read the details of Randy Nelson's filing against her? Dude has nailed her to the wall--even involved the dog and cats! That Marti doesn't bow her head, apologize to the citizens she's deceived and resign is a shame that will follow her name from here on out. But her arrogance, pride, and not a little bit of delusion, have caused her to file a lawsuit. A lawsuit that we, the citizens of Chattanooga, will pay to defend.

Comcast believes that an unfettered monopoly is their right and refuses to acknowledge that the law now allows someone else to offer 'cable' service. A unanimous vote of the city council has allowed EPB to bring us electric, phone, cable and next generation broadband. So Comcast (through their lobbying arm) is suing the City of Chattanooga (sure it says EPB on the papers, but it's really the City and that means you and me) to keep their monopoly.

The arrogance of Comcast is astounding. Even if what EPB is doing were illegal, what's it to them? If their service is so comcastic, all they have to do is undercut EPB's price by a few bucks and problem solved. It's clear that Comcast knows that their service is going to be far inferior and this is the beginning of the end, unless they install fiber as well. How in hell they think they can sue the citizens of this city and then expect them to continue to buy their service is a marketing technique that is ill conceived, to say the least.

Marti Rutherford and Comcast: arrogance in the face of common sense--which we will be paying for in court. I predict that the citizens of Chattanooga will be victorious in both matters. I hope a judge makes Marti and Comcast pay us back when we win.

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Mu-Mu-Move On Down The Road
We've gotten a butt ton of email asking about Worst Mayor Ever's take on Marti Rutherford's run in with an angry electorate (that's equal to two metric ass-loads). What is there to say, really? Everyone in Brainerd knew she never left Hemphill. Her competitor said it everytime she spoke during the campaign, "I'm the only resident of District 6 in this race," but our media never followed up on it.

It took Robert T. Nash to bring this about, and it all started when she was rude to him on the air. She's an embarrassment--has been for years--she thinks she's above the law and I'm glad justice finally caught up with her. I think you know I'm a fan of justice, even if it moves at a glacial pace. By the way, does this mean Julie Chamberlain won that election? She seems to be the qualified candidate with the most votes.

Oh, one other aspect of this worth noting is that the person working hardest behind the scenes to build the case in the community against Marti was none other than our favorite former city employee MichMich herself. The email on this matter was from a source so rock solid that every Chattanoogan in the know would acknowledge this persons credibilty.

I'm not surprised MichMich and Marti didn't get along--they're the same person, separated by 30 years and a pink floral mu-mu. If you know both of them, you know what I mean. The important thing to note here is that Ron Littlefield maneuvered behind the scenes after the '01 elections to get Marti jerrymandered out of his district, just in case. Which 'drove' her to establish this non-residence residence in District 6. And he's the one that has been feeding MichMich her ideas to get the citizens to file their petition. The way you can know for sure that Ron is behind the move to oust Marti, is that he said he's not. But to be fair, many people came together in a moment of cleansing synchronicity to bring this beautiful moment into being. Just enjoy it.

Campaign Finance Questions
Now, the serious stuff. Another writer with credibility wrote to point out another bit of suspicious Littlefield campaign accounting.

The essence of this story is that at a crucial point in the campaign, Ron was out of money (but not out of tricks). The call went out for money and Steve Leach made a 'large donation' to the campaign. The letter writer reports that the donation never showed up on a Littlefield financial report. Of course, the punch line is that Steve was then made head of the Public Works department, because that's how you get a job in the Littlefield administration: quid pro quo.

But irregularites about Ron Littlefield's disclosure form came up during the election, protests were filed and nothing happened. Why would it now? Wonder if anyone affiliated with that campaign will grow a conscience and step forward at any point in the future?

Shampoo Shakedown
OK, fine, a third e-mail (from a variety of sources) has put me over the edge on this. I'd held off, because it's really quite serious and hard to believe that someone could be so arrogant and stupid.

So, according to several e-mails, Missy Crutchfield went to her 'glitzy' hair salon in Brainerd in the not-too-distant past and declared that she wouldn't be paying the usual $120 fee for doing her hair, but that she would be paying $60 and leaving these tickets to events at the Tivoli theater to make up the difference. Go ahead, pick up your jaw and we'll continue.

Honestly, I didn't believe this when I got the first email. Or the second. But, three's a charm here. Clearly, this is a serious abuse of her position, and I suspect that those auditors that Ron's got running around need to take an accounting of the ticket distribution to city events.

Obviously, it's an appalling abuse of power if it's true. But, how, after her father's conviction, could she actually do this? I mean making a soft-core movie in your early 30's is dumb, but this is just stupid. And wrong.

Etc, etc, etc...
Another letter writer felt that Ron's cozy relationship with the unions immediately after his election is what chased Toyota away. While it's true that Japanese automakers are anti-union (Nissan has been fighting UAW here in Tenn. for years) and Ron's union-sluttery can't have looked good but, I think there was more than that involved.

Finally, one writer found it impossible to comprehend that Ron Littlefield could utter these words:

China is a growing and expanding country and just as we have had product recalls in this country, they are learning how to have product recalls there. [Aw! Isn't it cute when a burgeoning manufacturing economy learns to recall? I just love 'em at that age! BB] We've certainly had our share of breakdowns of process of production [but we don't have any manufacturing base left Ron, what can you mean? BB], and they are establishing safeguards in China as we have in this country.

Since when does particpating in a Sister City program make you an apologist for communist China and a lead paint controversy affecting millions of toys nationwide? You seriously need to work on your 'no comment,' Ron.

Well, that's just a handful of letters, but that'll do for now.

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1. Bill Colrus or anyone at the Chattanooga Pulse
2. Anyone at the Times Free Press
3. Josiah Roe or anyone at Coptix
4. Any of Missy Crutchfield's former lovers
5. Any of Missy Crutchfield's directors, producers or body doubles
6. Missy Crutchfield's hair dresser
7. Ron Littlefield's former political opponent(s)
8. Ron Littlefields former allies, who have been screwed over by him and want revenge

Though all of those people may have problems with this administration, I'm not them. They're not me.

Billy Blades is a pissed-off citizen who is disgusted by corruption and abuse in government, especially the administration of Ron Littlefield.

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When the TFP asked him about the situation, Alberto Gonzales, Ron Littlefield claimed that he couldn't recall if Ward introduced him to the union bosses at SEIU. Mind you, the transcripts reveal that this union connection had never 'played' in Chattanooga before, so Ron would have been meeting him for the first time in 2005. It's not like it would have been years ago in some smoky union hall. It would have been recently and in the transcript Ward says he was going to handle this introduction himself. That might ring a bell with most people.

When asked if they believed Ron's tale of Instant Onset Amnesia, even a little bit, Everybody In The World Since Forever, said 'No.'

Former SEIU boss Don Driscoll 'couldn't be reached.'

Can you imagine poor Ron, when he got the phone call from the reporter scrambling to come up with something to distance himself from the government documents linking him to convicted felons?!? Of course, all he could only come up with was the "I Don't Recall" gambit.

That tactic, which, since its rise to glory with Reagan during the Iran-Contra hearings to its pathetic death from overuse recently in Congressional testimony by Alberto Gonzalez is now tantamount to an admission of guilt.

Things are looking bleak for Littlefield. He used the unions for money, votes and volunteers during the campaign. Then he gave them lip service, so he could appear to be paying them back quid pro quo (I'll detail an example in a future post), and then he moved on when he didn't need them. Now the unions are feeling they were set up and they're not happy about it. Well, at least they know how the citizens of Chattanooga feel.

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