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Frank Cagle takes Lumpy Lambert to the woodshed
Posted By katie allison granju
Cagle isn’t pulling any punches in his latest Metro Pulse column:
Herewith, some free advice:
Forget getting the media to like you. It ain’t gonna happen. Be content that they will seek you out for quotes. You will continue to see your name in the paper and your face on the evening news. Usually it will not be flattering, but you won’t be ignored.You have two years left on your term. If you learn to sit quietly, avoid fights, avoid making personal attacks, and avoid press coverage, you have time for it to die down before your next election. However, we both know you can’t do that. So you might as well let Lumpy be Lumpy. Be content to get all the media coverage and be famous when you get voted out after one term. But it is certainly possible, given the state of Knox County politics, that you will be famous enough to get reelected regardless of the amount of embarrassment you engender.
One thing you could do would be to stop bragging about how you are in the pocket of the developers and will give them whatever they want. You could stop doing things like re-writing a storm-water ordinance during a Commission meeting—an ordinance that took experts a year to negotiate.
You might concentrate on legislation rather than argument. Maybe something to do with road kill, posting the Ten Commandments, or asking your colleagues to go on record as to whether they love the Baby Jesus.
Ouch.
Feb 7th, 2008
