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I’m going to be liveblogging the city council thing for the duration of it, or until something else happens. We’re going to be hopefully seeing some angry parents about the 5 yr olds walking to school at Willowbrook this week.

Its just starting now, come on to the page and chat with me.

Update: 9:07 - Break:

Our man Bos

EDIT 11:01 EST

The movies of Bos’s speech are way too long, and our server isn’t fast enough to dish em out… I’ll edit, compress, and repost later today.

I just came across an interesting site by the name of The Eye of the Fire.  Among other things, it blasts DA candidate David Clark and the League of Women Voters.  It also maintains salary listings for Anderson County, Clinton City and Oak Ridge City employees.

Does anyone out there know anything about this site?

Since its a slow news day, I want to dedicate some thought to that most exciting of jobs, the bass player in the rockin’ band that is local politics, the Trustee. In this election, we choose between John “Mama’s Boy” Stair and “Rowdy” Rodney Archer.

I haven’t known much about this particular issue, other than that Rodney having gone to high school with GAC, and voted for the rock quarry (which earned some enmity amongst some of those AC’ers further eastward). Of Stair I knew that his mom does the trustee job now. Hella qualifications.

I watched the two face off on one of those channel 12 debate shows yesterday, and man, I’ll tell you what, Johnny didn’t come off too well. In fact, Rodney handed his verbal ass to him in terms of eloquence, intelligence, and seeming capability.

Truth is, in all my years of in-depth political analysis, I have never seen a candidate for public office aqquit himself so poorly. Big John’s platform seemed entirely based on the “my parent did it” position, which only works for presidential elections (as we all know). The Rod is talking about putting tax payments online (wish they would do it for Oak Ridge Electric payments, but thats another post), and starting up a satellite office so we Ridgerians don’t have to drive way out to Clinton to drop that big county property check.

The Stairmeister, par for the course for this election, countered this idea by playing the “expensive” card, which seems silly to somebody familiar with websites and pricing. He continued by questioning L’Archer’s qualifications, which, as I understand it, broke down something like this:

Seems to me that really breaks down qualifications. I mean, I don’t want to toot Archer’s horn (it isn’t gentlemenly, and I still have a lingering dislike of insurance agents), but it seems obvious to me that Stair’s only ace in the hole is Mama Stair running the show.