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In the October 21 edition of the Herald-News (yep, it cost one dollar to read a couple stories
mingled in with what seems to be a Gazillion advertisements) was a front page story written
by Max Hackett. The story was telling everyone about how Rhea County’s poorest of the
poor are the one’s getting screwed when it comes to local taxes.
He failed however to tell you that he has been writing stories, at the direction of his “bosses”
promoting an increase in a local option tax slapping an additional burden on YOU.
I sat down and read the above mentioned article and for the life of me I could not grasp the
subject matter. Hackett’s story seemed to be not much more than pulling words from a state
report conducted showing how local taxes cost the poor people MORE than it does Billy Ray
Patton, who makes about $52,000 a year for basically nothing.
Once again, it is not our intent to slam the Herald-News again and again, but we are going to
keep them in line if they want to continue printing news in Rhea County. Gone are the days
when they simply printed whatever they wanted, slanted stories however they wanted
without any other local media to controvert them.
Several years ago the Mountain Morning News tried and the publishers/editors Kenny and
David Lester were basically closed up and ran out of town. Their sister County Attorney,
Carol Ann Barron never had to leave town. She simply dumped her hubby ex-sheriff Paul
Smith and tried to act like she didn’t know anyone associated with the paper.
Does anyone ever wonder just where the Mountain Morning News got most of their “inside”
information? Tap..tap…tap.
Yep, if I get a speeding ticket I have to answer for it, so if we have lawyers who blatantly
violate their professional conduct as an attorney then, poof, they have to answer too. After
all, this is a nation of equality. Or at least everyone sure keeps on saying that.
Anyways, back to the topic of how citizens in Rhea County earning less than $40,000 a year
are getting screwed when it comes to local taxes, we need not forget just who tried their level
best trying to get the tax passed and levied against YOU.
Billy Ray Patton with the aid of the Herald-News’ promotions of the tax stacked the Dayton
Council meeting with people who were county commissioners, school board members and
seemingly as many friends and family as they could bring. The Herald-News even wrote a
story about how a large turnout was expected to be at the council meeting.
So what happened at this meeting?
Well, the “soon to be test ousted District 5 commissioner Emily Fugate" said a few words and
had a bunch of signatures (she didn’t even know how many) and a couple others spoke up in
support of the local option sales tax.
Only one person, former constable Roy Denton had the gonads to stand in opposition to the
tax only because it involved the city having to give the county it’s share of the money
collected to the county. The Herald-News and Max Hackett reporting, tried to make it sound
like Denton “rambled” off a bunch of mindless rhetoric in the form of statistics, etc.. But it
seems the "rambling" was true statements of fact and each of the councilmen listened
attentively. However, two councilmen who voted for the tax admitted they heach had
conflicts of interest in that one councilman was a school board member who had a wife that
worked for the school system and the other councilman had a wife who worked for the
school system as well.
In spite of these two commissioners Billy Graham and Bobby Doss, respectively, Graham
was the dude that made the motion. hey, not only did he have a conflict and admitted it, he
was brazen enough to make the motion to take tax dollars from city residents and give those
dollars to the county. Councilman Doss admitted his conflict and voted for it saying, "if it
means my job then so be it".
So there you have it. Two councilmen who admitted they each had a conflict but made a
motion to pass the tax giving the county all the money and basically told the city residents to
go to....
Does the words "recall election" come to mind.
Mayor Bob Vincent, Councilman John Heath and Councilman Jim Barnes voted their
conscience along with their obligation to "city residents", and voted against the motion killing
the tax.
So what does the Herald-Hews and Max Hackett do?
They slam Jim Barnes in the very next newspaper by making him sound as though he was
half dead with cancer. These dim-wits obviously are not aware at how close they came to
being sued. I guess Ed Emens, John Carpenter and Max Hackett felt that they did not need to
read nor abide by the Standards for Privacy of Individually Identifiable Health Information, or
the privacy rule as they should know it's called.
RheaCountyNewspaper.com will be providing Councilman Barnes with information and will
assist him in whatever way we can, if he so desires.
Our position is that the Herald-News owes Jim Barnes a BIG apology. Absent such decent
act on their part may require a complaint filed reporting the apparent violation of the
Standards for Privacy of Individually Identifiable Health Information privacy rule.
Hey, no skin of my behind. Remember, we at RheaCountyNewspaper.com do not charge
money for anything, it's all free. Trust us, we will be watching the Herald's View Point section.
Once again, I have drifted off from the topic that I was trying to report. But then that's the
sweetness of being different, modern and alternative to the "way it's always been" mentality.
We do not answer to any public interest. We can report any story without having to do what
some special interest or advertiser tells us.
The topic of how Billy Ray Patton with the help of a local advertising circular disguised as a
newspaper tried to ram a new tax increase that doesn’t hurt him one bit, remember, he makes
more money. But his tax increase is designed to slap every person in Rhea County who
makes less that $40,000 a year right in their already empty pockets.
That’s the bottom line folks.
Sources report, the county “borrowed” a few million bucks that the school board had saved
up for school projects including the over crowding in our schools. A funny thing about this
was it seems that the school board didn’t even know their school money had been hi-jacked,
stole, borrowed or whatever name they wish to place on the act of taking money from one
governing body from another without telling them.
Now that money has been mindlessly squandered by the county commission and Billy Ray
Patton and now the issue of them "having to pay the piper" is causing them to panic.
Hey folks, its your tax dollars. Sit on your hands and do nothing but silently gripe about it or
realize that life does not last forever and make your stand.
I am not going to write anymore about what the report called, “Who Pays More? Local Tax
Burdens on Tennessee Households by County” as reported by the Tennessee Advisory
Commission. I have made this entire report title a direct link to the official report. Click on it
and read it for yourself. Or click here.
Then again, if you read the 52 page report you will not learn one ounce of anything new. If
you are not a public official, if you are not rich, own butt loads of land, houses, sub-divisions
or make over $40,000 a year as do most of every person that represents YOU in local
government, then YOU pay more tax than them. It’s really that simple.
Then again, it seems that all throughout time the "poor people" have always gotten screwed
over.
As for me, they can pee on my leg and try to tell me that it's raining, but by reading this new
online alternative instead of the established Herald-News, people will soon be able to learn
for themselves the difference between piss and rain.
And yes, "piss" is in the Bible, check it out 1 Samuel 25:22
mingled in with what seems to be a Gazillion advertisements) was a front page story written
by Max Hackett. The story was telling everyone about how Rhea County’s poorest of the
poor are the one’s getting screwed when it comes to local taxes.
He failed however to tell you that he has been writing stories, at the direction of his “bosses”
promoting an increase in a local option tax slapping an additional burden on YOU.
I sat down and read the above mentioned article and for the life of me I could not grasp the
subject matter. Hackett’s story seemed to be not much more than pulling words from a state
report conducted showing how local taxes cost the poor people MORE than it does Billy Ray
Patton, who makes about $52,000 a year for basically nothing.
Once again, it is not our intent to slam the Herald-News again and again, but we are going to
keep them in line if they want to continue printing news in Rhea County. Gone are the days
when they simply printed whatever they wanted, slanted stories however they wanted
without any other local media to controvert them.
Several years ago the Mountain Morning News tried and the publishers/editors Kenny and
David Lester were basically closed up and ran out of town. Their sister County Attorney,
Carol Ann Barron never had to leave town. She simply dumped her hubby ex-sheriff Paul
Smith and tried to act like she didn’t know anyone associated with the paper.
Does anyone ever wonder just where the Mountain Morning News got most of their “inside”
information? Tap..tap…tap.
Yep, if I get a speeding ticket I have to answer for it, so if we have lawyers who blatantly
violate their professional conduct as an attorney then, poof, they have to answer too. After
all, this is a nation of equality. Or at least everyone sure keeps on saying that.
Anyways, back to the topic of how citizens in Rhea County earning less than $40,000 a year
are getting screwed when it comes to local taxes, we need not forget just who tried their level
best trying to get the tax passed and levied against YOU.
Billy Ray Patton with the aid of the Herald-News’ promotions of the tax stacked the Dayton
Council meeting with people who were county commissioners, school board members and
seemingly as many friends and family as they could bring. The Herald-News even wrote a
story about how a large turnout was expected to be at the council meeting.
So what happened at this meeting?
Well, the “soon to be test ousted District 5 commissioner Emily Fugate" said a few words and
had a bunch of signatures (she didn’t even know how many) and a couple others spoke up in
support of the local option sales tax.
Only one person, former constable Roy Denton had the gonads to stand in opposition to the
tax only because it involved the city having to give the county it’s share of the money
collected to the county. The Herald-News and Max Hackett reporting, tried to make it sound
like Denton “rambled” off a bunch of mindless rhetoric in the form of statistics, etc.. But it
seems the "rambling" was true statements of fact and each of the councilmen listened
attentively. However, two councilmen who voted for the tax admitted they heach had
conflicts of interest in that one councilman was a school board member who had a wife that
worked for the school system and the other councilman had a wife who worked for the
school system as well.
In spite of these two commissioners Billy Graham and Bobby Doss, respectively, Graham
was the dude that made the motion. hey, not only did he have a conflict and admitted it, he
was brazen enough to make the motion to take tax dollars from city residents and give those
dollars to the county. Councilman Doss admitted his conflict and voted for it saying, "if it
means my job then so be it".
So there you have it. Two councilmen who admitted they each had a conflict but made a
motion to pass the tax giving the county all the money and basically told the city residents to
go to....
Does the words "recall election" come to mind.
Mayor Bob Vincent, Councilman John Heath and Councilman Jim Barnes voted their
conscience along with their obligation to "city residents", and voted against the motion killing
the tax.
So what does the Herald-Hews and Max Hackett do?
They slam Jim Barnes in the very next newspaper by making him sound as though he was
half dead with cancer. These dim-wits obviously are not aware at how close they came to
being sued. I guess Ed Emens, John Carpenter and Max Hackett felt that they did not need to
read nor abide by the Standards for Privacy of Individually Identifiable Health Information, or
the privacy rule as they should know it's called.
RheaCountyNewspaper.com will be providing Councilman Barnes with information and will
assist him in whatever way we can, if he so desires.
Our position is that the Herald-News owes Jim Barnes a BIG apology. Absent such decent
act on their part may require a complaint filed reporting the apparent violation of the
Standards for Privacy of Individually Identifiable Health Information privacy rule.
Hey, no skin of my behind. Remember, we at RheaCountyNewspaper.com do not charge
money for anything, it's all free. Trust us, we will be watching the Herald's View Point section.
Once again, I have drifted off from the topic that I was trying to report. But then that's the
sweetness of being different, modern and alternative to the "way it's always been" mentality.
We do not answer to any public interest. We can report any story without having to do what
some special interest or advertiser tells us.
The topic of how Billy Ray Patton with the help of a local advertising circular disguised as a
newspaper tried to ram a new tax increase that doesn’t hurt him one bit, remember, he makes
more money. But his tax increase is designed to slap every person in Rhea County who
makes less that $40,000 a year right in their already empty pockets.
That’s the bottom line folks.
Sources report, the county “borrowed” a few million bucks that the school board had saved
up for school projects including the over crowding in our schools. A funny thing about this
was it seems that the school board didn’t even know their school money had been hi-jacked,
stole, borrowed or whatever name they wish to place on the act of taking money from one
governing body from another without telling them.
Now that money has been mindlessly squandered by the county commission and Billy Ray
Patton and now the issue of them "having to pay the piper" is causing them to panic.
Hey folks, its your tax dollars. Sit on your hands and do nothing but silently gripe about it or
realize that life does not last forever and make your stand.
I am not going to write anymore about what the report called, “Who Pays More? Local Tax
Burdens on Tennessee Households by County” as reported by the Tennessee Advisory
Commission. I have made this entire report title a direct link to the official report. Click on it
and read it for yourself. Or click here.
Then again, if you read the 52 page report you will not learn one ounce of anything new. If
you are not a public official, if you are not rich, own butt loads of land, houses, sub-divisions
or make over $40,000 a year as do most of every person that represents YOU in local
government, then YOU pay more tax than them. It’s really that simple.
Then again, it seems that all throughout time the "poor people" have always gotten screwed
over.
As for me, they can pee on my leg and try to tell me that it's raining, but by reading this new
online alternative instead of the established Herald-News, people will soon be able to learn
for themselves the difference between piss and rain.
And yes, "piss" is in the Bible, check it out 1 Samuel 25:22
| Low Income Rhea Countians Get the Shaft, Again Crakston Cryler, editor |
