This Friday Ray H Jenkins has a campaign kickoff that BrianHornback.Com has already announced. I received a copy of the host list for the event today. There are three Knox County Law Department lawyers on the host list. The Elected Knox County Law Director Bud Armstrong and his wife. The Deputy Knox County Law Director David Buuck and another lawyer in the department Dan Sanders.
Litigation appears in Circuit Court Division I periodically. Clearly any and all counsel on the opposite side of Knox County could conceivable request recusal by Jenkins and Knox County which in turn would cost the taxpayers more money in Knox County having to provide outside legal counsel on behalf of the county.
Additionally Dan Sanders is listed as a voting delegate at two separate voting precincts in the Knox County Republican Executive Committee Book. Does this mean he voted twice at the Knox County Republican Party Reorganization last January?
I like Bud Armstrong, but this clearly asks some questions of a law department that is far too political. Jenkins faces Experienced Attorney Kristi Davis and Billy Stokes, Former Assistant to Gov. Don Sundquist.
