East Knoxville Community Meeting BLOG:
Victor v Madeline: Former vs Lame Duck
For whatever reason, these two Knoxville Mayors have been at it like cats and dogs for as far back as I can remember. Who knows why but be very clear - Victor and Madeline despise each other.
Victor manages to point out every major blunder of the current Mayor and her administration almost before the blunder is made. Take the Safety Building debacle. Before the Mayor could finish her budget presentation Victor pegged her Knoxville College, Safety Building, Clayton Science Center plan as lunacy and as it turns out - he was as right as rain.
In reality, anyone with half a brain knew ANY plan contingent on the Knoxville College Board of Trustees refinancing $6 million of ancient debt was doomed to fail given that this board hasn't made an intelligent move since its Board Chairman declared that the school had done all it would do to regain the school's SACS accreditation and wouldn't do a thing more and that was over 20 years ago. They've had zero success since.
I'm sure folks left the Mayor's budget presentation performance chanting '"Hercules, Hercules!" in honor of the Mayor's magnanimous gesture to salvage KC while facilitating the construction of a new headquarters for the police and fire departments but though she undoubtedly received raucous applause - many in the audience heard the plan for what it actually was - nonsense.
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