Remember four months ago, when Knox County voters faced a choice between a rookie law director and an experienced litigator? Remember, the ah shucks vote for my pal ads by the County Mayor? Well the law director won, but his pal Jim Weaver running for Property Assessor lost.
Now, in today’s News Sentinel is this story about the rookie law director and his inexperienced pals. “U.S. Magistrate Judge Bruce Guyton has handed the law director’s office another loss in what is essentially a battle against the Supremacy Clause of the U.S. Constitution — a legal fight long settled by the nation’s highest court in 1819 when the court held the federal government is exempt from local and state taxation.”
“Guyton went one step further, accusing Deputy Law Director Daniel Sanders of purposely playing with the timing of court filings to keep Hall’s real estate on the county’s property tax rolls and thwart the government’s efforts to take legal possession.”
“It appears to the Court that Knox County consciously chose not to file a petition, despite receiving direct notice on March 7, 2016, because it wanted to litigate the propriety of the notice,” Guyton wrote. “The Court also recognizes that the delay of the final order of forfeiture in this case will permit Knox County to maximize the taxes and interest due on the properties subject to forfeiture.
“The Court finds that Knox County’s failure to bring these issues before the Court in a timely fashion is a problem of its own making and, perhaps, a deliberate attempt to delay entry of the final order of forfeiture for its own benefit,” he continued.
And of course, when the reporter called ole bud what did she report? Reached by phone Monday, Knox County Law Director Richard “Bud” Armstrong said he had no comment.
Folks the cronies in the courthouse are spending our money like drunken sailors, from a law department attorney sitting around waiting 30 days to timely respond to a County Clerk hiring KPD to travel out of their jurisdiction to secure an office that they have no authority. All the while to quote Ross Perot our tax money is leaving in the greatest sucking sound heard in the universe.
the KPD Officer “providing security” last week at the Halls Knox County Clerk’s Office.
