Friday, May 27, 2005
I Was Dancing With My Darling...
If you read this blog even rarely, which very few people do, you are more than aware of what is going on in Tennessee these days. But, let's say you are the person from China who my stats show has read my blog once, here's a great rundown from the Tennessean.
I had some trouble tracking these down, since our newspaper's Web site is easily the worst newspaper site in existence, but here are the PDFs of the actual indictments, as well: Chris Newton and Charles Love, Ward Crutchfield and Charles Love and my personal favorite, John Ford.
With all that, here are the questions floating around in my head, no particular order:
1) How the hell did Chris Newton get caught up in this mess? We know he's not a Republican poster boy, but this seemed pretty tied to folks with urban constituencies. It's not like Benton is in East Brainerd or something.
2) Where is Ward's secretary in all these arrests? It seems from reading the indictments that she is as guilty as anyone else, at least of aiding and abetting.
3) This one is obvious, but who will be the first to turn state's and tell all about bribery and extortion that took place with real companies?
4) What do you do if you own one of the following companies: E-cycle or eCycle? And, um, how shady is it that this site was registered on May 24 of this year? As in, Tuesday? Before anyone knew about all this stuff?
5) Now, to the politics: How much of a disappointment is it to Bob Davis that Chris Newton (R) is in cahoots here? Essentially this takes away something that would have been like shooting Democratic fish in a barrel and makes it an issue of bipartisan concern.
6) WWHD? What Would Harold Do? This is clearly going to be a huge stone tied around his neck from here on out, especially because the trial will start getting into high gear right around the time the campaign does. Can he shake this? If you don;t think the national political media won't turn this into the lede, well, you haven't read the New York Times this morning, have you?
So, ponder, ruminate, maybe even (God forbid) leave a comment if you'd like. What questions are on your mind about all this?
I had some trouble tracking these down, since our newspaper's Web site is easily the worst newspaper site in existence, but here are the PDFs of the actual indictments, as well: Chris Newton and Charles Love, Ward Crutchfield and Charles Love and my personal favorite, John Ford.
With all that, here are the questions floating around in my head, no particular order:
1) How the hell did Chris Newton get caught up in this mess? We know he's not a Republican poster boy, but this seemed pretty tied to folks with urban constituencies. It's not like Benton is in East Brainerd or something.
2) Where is Ward's secretary in all these arrests? It seems from reading the indictments that she is as guilty as anyone else, at least of aiding and abetting.
3) This one is obvious, but who will be the first to turn state's and tell all about bribery and extortion that took place with real companies?
4) What do you do if you own one of the following companies: E-cycle or eCycle? And, um, how shady is it that this site was registered on May 24 of this year? As in, Tuesday? Before anyone knew about all this stuff?
5) Now, to the politics: How much of a disappointment is it to Bob Davis that Chris Newton (R) is in cahoots here? Essentially this takes away something that would have been like shooting Democratic fish in a barrel and makes it an issue of bipartisan concern.
6) WWHD? What Would Harold Do? This is clearly going to be a huge stone tied around his neck from here on out, especially because the trial will start getting into high gear right around the time the campaign does. Can he shake this? If you don;t think the national political media won't turn this into the lede, well, you haven't read the New York Times this morning, have you?
So, ponder, ruminate, maybe even (God forbid) leave a comment if you'd like. What questions are on your mind about all this?
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