ELECTION RESULTS FOR 2010 PRIMARY AND LOCAL

Listed below are the results of the August 5th elections.

Please note, all results are unofficial.

REPUBLICAN GOVERNOR’S PRIMARY
Bill Haslem – 1,294
Ron Ramsey – 795
Zach Wamp – 556
Joe Kirkpatrick – 52
Basil Marceux, Sr. – 13

DEMOCRAT GOVERNOR’S PRIMARY
Mike McWherter – 1,719

US HOUSE 4TH CONGRESSIONAL DISTRICT REPUBLICAN
Scott Desjarlais – 1,090
Jack Bailey – 509
Kent Greenough – 293
Ronald L. Harwell – 241
Donald “Don” Strong – 101

US HOUSE 4TH CONGRESSIONAL DISTRICT DEMOCRATIC
Lincoln Davis – 1,585

STATE SENATE 25TH SEN DISTRICT REPUBLICAN
Jim Summerville – 1,693

STATE SENATE 25TH SEN DISTRICT DEMOCRATIC
Doug Jackson – 1,400

STATE HOUSE 65TH REP DISTRICT REPUBLICAN
Billy Spivey – 1,785

STATE HOUSE 65TH REP DISTRICT DEMOCRATIC
Eddie Bass –1,821

STATE EXEC 25th DISTRICT COMMITTEEMAN REPUBLICAN
Jim Looney - 734
Bill (Doc) Dockery – 507
John Engles – 500

STATE EXEC 25TH DISTRICT COMMITTEEMAN DEMOCRAT
Richard H. Dunavant – 1,538

STATE EXEC COMMITEEWOMAN REPUBLICAN
Mary Littleton - 985
Betsy Engles – 691

STATE EXEC COMMITEEWOMAN DEMOCRAT
Martha Shepard – 1,279

COUNTY EXECUTIVE
Janet Parker Vanzant – 2,922
Scott Stewart – 2,128

TRUSTEE
Jo Ann Townsend – 4,152

SHERIFF
Kyle Helton – 4,772

CIRCUIT COURT CLERK
Crystal Gibson Greene – 4,526

COUNTY CLERK
Carol H. Wade – 4,685

REGISTER OF DEEDS
Kay Gibbons – 4,457

TN SUPREME COURT JUDGE LEE
Retain – 2,256
Replace – 1,059

COURT OF APPEALS JUDGE MCCLARTY
Retain - 2,202
Replace – 1,076

COUNTY COMMISSIONER DISTRICT 1
Bill J. Cary – 441
Janice McMeen Reece – 372
Ramona M. Flacy – 294
Alfred C. Harris – 256
Roger D. Cagle – 170

COUNTY COMMISSIONER DISTRICT 2
Tracy Wilburn – 528
Stoney Jackson – 334
Tommy Pope – 330
David L. Bailey – 284
Cheryl Vallance – 164

COUNTY COMMISSIONER DISTRICT 3
Tim Risner – 419
David Adams – 336
Rick Carpenter – 278
Okalene Walls – 267
Wayne Ashford – 230
Rose Marie Cartee – 111

COUNTY COMMISSIONER DISTRICT 4
Tommy Beech – 534
James N. (Jack) Woodard – 401
Roger D. Reedy – 399
Edwin Lovell – 352
Judy Laviana – 223
David E. Ross – 187

COUNTY COMMISSIONER DISTRICT 5
Tommy Pollard – 597
Connie S. Howell – 539
Bill Holt – 497
Laura K. Warren – 238
Marcus L. Harney – 223

COUNTY COMMISSIONER DISTRICT 6
Louise Faulkner – 353
Rose Yvonne Brown – 330
Berenetta Houston – 328

COUNTY COMMISSIONER DISTRICT 7
Terry W. Harwell - 477
T.A. (Tommy) Campbell – 448
Vicki Coleman – 423
(WAB) William Allen Barrett – 254

SCHOOL BOARD DISTRICT 1
Douglas P. Ead – 418
Tracey Fralix (write-in) - 86

SCHOOL BOARD DISTRICT 3
Mike Young – 366
Chris Morris – 211

SCHOOL BOARD DISTRICT 5
Jim Greene – 495
Troy Teegarden – 319

SCHOOL BOARD DISTRICT 7
Jerry B. Bryant – 407
Beverly Greene Murrey – 303

CHARTER COMMISSION DISTRICT 1
Danny Lindsey – 437

CHARTER COMMISSION DISTRICT 2
Alvin D. Reynolds, Sr. – 445

CHARTER COMMISSION DISTRICT 3
David Wells – 288
Gayle C. Jones – 221

CHARTER COMMISSION DISTRICT 4
Pierre Billard – 565

CHARTER COMMISSION DISTRICT 5
Toby Howell – 362
Casey E. Clark – 340

CHARTER COMMISSION DISTRICT 6
Sanderlan Clair Smith – 345

CHARTER COMMISSION DISTRICT 7
Rickey Yant – 543

MAYOR CITY OF ELKTON
Carolyn S. Thompson – 101
Payton Blade – 97

ALDERMAN CITY OF ELKTON
Bill J. Cary – 128
Roosevelt Whitfield – 86
Jimmy D. Caldwell – 67
John W. Walden – 40

ALDERMAN CITY OF LYNNVILLE
James Jason Dunnivant – 41
Jim Green – 38
Thomas Stephen Bay – 37

MAYOR CITY OF MINOR HILL
Tracy Wilburn – 111

ALDERMAN CITY OF MINOR HILL
Bernard Dalton – 82
Scott Jarrell – 69
Jack N. Norwood – 59

If The 31 July Deadline Must Be Strictly Complied With Then Why Wasn't The Rest Of The Budget Provisions Complied With?

5-21-110. Budget — Preparation and committee review. —

a) On or before February 1 of each year the budget committee, in conjunction with the director, shall prescribe the budgetary procedures, forms, calendar and other information as may be necessary to implement the budgetary procedures contained in this chapter.

b) On request of the budget committee each department or office of county government shall submit a proposed budget for the succeeding fiscal year and such other budgetary information requested by the director of the budget committee.

(c) (1) From information submitted the director shall prepare a consolidated budget document.

(2) Such document shall show by item the amounts estimated by the various departments and officials required for the efficient operation of the county government from the county general fund, the debt service funds, highway funds, school funds and all other funds.

(3) Such document shall show an estimate of the revenues to be received by each of the funds during the next fiscal year and an estimate of the unencumbered fund balance of each of such funds at the beginning of the fiscal year.

(d) (1) The director shall file the consolidated budget with the budget committee.

(2) The budget committee shall review and present the recommended budget to the members of the county legislative body at least ten (10) days prior to the July meeting.

(3) Such budget shall contain an itemized and classified plan of all proposed expenditures and estimated receipts for the ensuing fiscal year as submitted by each department, office or agency and recommended by the budget committee, and shall conform to the uniform classification of accounts established by the director in accordance with the prescribed state uniform accounting system.

(4) It is expressly provided that the classification of expenditures and receipts of any and all county school funds for any purpose, administered by the county board of education and county director of schools, shall conform to the classification of accounts as prescribed by the commissioner of education.

(5) The budget committee shall fully provide in the budget for all requirements for debt service, interest and bond maturities and for any cash deficit in any fund at the beginning of the fiscal year, and shall propose a tentative tax rate to fund such budget. The budget committee shall fully provide for any court-ordered expenses, including, but not limited to, deputies' and assistants' salaries authorized by court order pursuant to title 8, chapter 20. The budget, when adopted, shall appropriate funds to fully comply with such court order. The county legislative body shall adopt any budget amendment necessary to implement the provisions of such court order.

[Acts 1981, ch. 325, § 10; 1993, ch. 515, § 4.]


(b) The budget committee shall present the budget to the county legislative body at the regular July meeting each year or at a special session called for this purpose prior to the regular July meeting.

c) The proposed budget shall be accompanied by a budget message explaining the financial program and outlining the services, work and activities to be financed by the proposed budget and a brief discussion of the means proposed for financing the expenditure program set forth in the budget.

(d) With the proposed budget, the budget committee shall deliver to the county legislative body a budget appropriation resolution and a tax levy resolution.

(e) (1) The county legislative body may alter or revise the proposed budget except as to provision for debt service requirements and for other expenditures required by law.

2) The county legislative body shall finally adopt a budget in July.


5-21-111. Budget — Hearings — Supporting documents — County action. —

a) (1) (A) At least ten (10) days before the proposed budget is to be presented to the governing body, the budget committee shall cause to be published in a newspaper of general circulation the proposed annual operating budget.


SINCE THERE WAS NO BUDGET APPROVED BY THE BUDGET COMMITTEE THERE WAS NEVER AN APPROPRIATE BUDGET PRESENTED TO THE LEGISLATIVE BODY THUS THE LEGISLATIVE BODY HAD NO BUDGET TO APPROVE. Allen Barrett

Bedford County Got Financial Management Right Why Can't We?

County finance director honored for excellence
Thursday, July 22, 2010
By BRIAN MOSELY ~ bmosely@t-g.com
When Tennessee's Comptroller of the Treasury pays your county a visit, it's usually bad news.
But local officials were all smiles Tuesday as the county's director of finance, Robert Daniel, was honored with the highest award in the area of governmental accounting.
Comptroller Justin P. Wilson presented Daniel with the Certificate of Achievement for Excellence in Financial Reporting, awarded by the Government Finance Officers Association of the United States and Canada (GFOA) for the county's comprehensive annual financial report.
According to a statement from GFOA, the award "is the highest form of recognition in the area of governmental accounting and financial reporting ..."
GFOA also said that the award "represents a significant accomplishment by a government and its management."
A number of county commissioners and department officials were on hand for the presentation from Wilson, who said that the award "in the scope of things, is truly unbelievable."
Wilson pointed out that Daniel isn't being honored by the state of Tennessee, but "a leading national organization for excellence."
He added that Daniel has been giving county commissioners the information they need to make informed decisions "and doing it in a way so that the citizens of Bedford County can find out what the devil is going on."
"People are entitled to know what you government is doing," Wilson said. "And you've done it in Bedford County so well that you are now nationally recognized."
Wilson said that several years ago, the county was in a situation where suspicion and lack of disclosure existed.
"They had a first class mess and they cleaned it up," Wilson said, referring to the county's adoption in 2006 of the state's Financial Management Act of 1981, which centralized the county's budgeting, purchasing and accounting.
Doing so made sure that the public was well informed about the county's finances and Wilson said, "this is exactly what local government should be doing."
Daniel thanked members of the commission and County Mayor Eugene Ray for their support, County Technical Advisory Service and the Comptroller's office.
"I just want Bedford County to be cutting edge, and we will continue to strive to do just that."
"Hands in the kitty"
In comments to commissioners and other department heads, Ray compared county government to a football team, with Daniel taking the quarterback slot.
But he also described having to deal with people who were allegedly helping themselves to county funds in years past -- and about keeping it out of the Times-Gazette.
Ray said when he was elected, the one of the first things he wanted to do as county mayor was to get the Act of 1981 passed by the county commission.
"It was very difficult to get done, but we were fortunate with all the commissioners voting for it," Ray said, adding he wanted the best person picked for the director of finance job, which lead to Daniel being hired.
Following Daniel taking the job, Ray said the county "had a lot of difficult things to take place ... one man wound up in prison for improper handling of funds."
Ray was referring to the arrest of Eugene Nichols, former deputy director of the Bedford County Emergency Management Agency, who was sentenced to nine years in prison on embezzlement charges.
The 70-count indictment against Nichols accused him of diverting a total of $117,000 in funds from the county's EMA to a personal account over a period of several years.
"We had other people that had a hand in the kitty," Ray said. "We sat down and visited with them ... because we were going into very difficult situations ... and we went into many tough situations without the press being here and reporting people's names, but we were able to change things around."
Ray said that he heard some opinions that those with their hands in the kitty should be in prison, but the mayor said that "we were able to reverse a lot of those things."
Commissioner Bo Wilson said he "had no idea of the things that were taking place," referring to what Ray described and urged anyone involved with government to adopt the Act of 1981.
"If you want to find out what going on in your county, that's the way ... this puts the cookies on the low shelf ... and lets you know what's going on," Commissioner Wilson said.
The county mayor also said that this is the most difficult time he's had running the county government, due to sales taxes "being off" for the last 22 months, but the county still continues to build schools and have no layoffs in county government.
Ray also said that as long as he is county mayor, they will be "hard on waste."
State Sen. Jim Tracy was on hand for the ceremony, and said that "if we can govern through these tough times, businesses will look to move here and create jobs."
"It's unbelievable to have the comptroller come down here and give this national award," Tracy said.
State Rep. Pat Marsh got a laugh when he said, "I didn't know we were that good."
Comptroller Wilson added that he believed the award will help with economic development for the county, be a positive factor for bond ratings and "for the reputation and quality of life."
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Why do Some Fear The Truth?

One purpose of this blog has been to provide an outlet for information unfiltered by the government and those in powerful positions.

One thing that has become clear is that some, primarily the one small minded enabler of wrongdoing known as "rabid" who post excessively under different anonymous listings but never offers any factual support for the most outrageous lies, prefer ignorance over information, gossip over facts and lies over truth.

Because some like "rabid" had no respect for the truth and continued to display the low degree of ethical character that allowed them to misrepresent the truth, post information as factual without any supportive evidence and just plain out right knowingly lie I have suspended the privilege of posting comments.

I apologize to those of the 361,686 who used this sight responsibly but once again
those with the scruples and character of such destroyers of America as Madalyn Murray O'Hair, Jane Fonda, Barry Soetoro aka Barak Oboma, George Soros and "rabid" have caused those who seek truth and honesty and a strong nation to suffer loss of rights and privileges at least temporarily.

When I can feel more confident that those like "rabid the liar" will not dominate this blog with their disgusting lies and hypocrisy perhaps we will again be able to share comments about events taking place in our great county.

If you want to contact me about this situation me e-mail is wab@energize.net and my phone is 363-1983.
Allen Barrett