Margie Loyd’s missing receipts?
Greg Isaacs says she turned them in, and somehow the auditor never saw them.
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“The media ate my homework”
Mike Arms is among several Ragsdale staffers who say they are certain some of the receipts flagged as missing in the p-card draft audit were actually turned in. And today, he offers a novel theory as to where the missing documentation might have gone:
Arms questioned whether some receipts have been lost, including the possibility that [...]
Read More..>>Maybe they met at Club Le Conte
Mayor Ragsdale and his staff met with Knox County auditor Richard Walls this morning to get their copy of the draft audit, and to request an extension on submitting their response:
According to Ragsdale spokesman Susanne Dupes, the extension was granted during a Friday morning meeting during which Ragsdale was presented with the audit by Knox [...]
A matter of open record
Yesterday’s release of the draft audit of p-card spending in the Ragsdale administration is an important reminder of why the press and the public need open access to government records. WBIR’s News Director (and my boss), Bill Shory has written a commentary on why WBIR chose to push for the release of the p-card draft [...]
Read More..>>BREAKING: Serious concerns raised in Ragsdale draft audit release
Read the complete draft audit at WBIR.com
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WBIR to push for public audit release
The long-awaited draft audit of purchasing card expenditures in Knox County Mayor Mike Ragsdale’s office will be released Friday (tomorrow), and it is the position of the Ragsdale administration that their office should get to privately see and review the audit — perhaps for weeks — before the public gets a look at it. [...]
Read More..>>Mayor’s office: P-card audit release imminent, but we get it first
The text of a fax our News Director received a short time ago from Mayor Mike Ragsdale’s office. It’s signed by Dwight Van de Vate:
Dear Mr. Shory:
It is our understanding that the completion of the draft purchasing card audit by the State Comproller’s Office and County Commission’s Internal Auditor is imminent. In light of that, [...]
Ragsdale resignation rumors redux
As I mentioned the other day, rumors that Knox County Mayor Mike Ragsdale would soon resign were circulating madly last week, although when asked, Mike Arms said there was no truth whatsoever to the speculation.
Now George Korda weighs in on the still-out-there talk about an imminent Ragsdale resignation:
More potential trouble for Ragsdale could stem from [...]
Ragsdale’s receipts
Interested parties are awaiting the release of the Knox County audit, which will apparently happen relatively soon. In the meantime, blogger David Oatney is unhappy with some of Mayor Ragsdale’s spending that’s already been made public:
Here we see the expense report for a trip that Mayor Ragsdale took to Nashville on August 21, 2007. In [...]
Read More..>>Knoxville alliteration of the week: Ragsdale Resignation Rumors
The rumor that Knox County Mayor Mike Ragsdale plans to resign has been spreading like wildfire this week among the “inside baseball” crowd in Downtown Knoxville. This morning at the Knox County Commission meeting, Don Bosch, one of the panelists on WBIR’s Inside Tennessee, asked Mike Arms directly whether the rumor has any truth to [...]
Read More..>>Render unto Ragsdale the things which are Ragsdale’s…
A county official confirms that this morning, a taxpayer walked into the Halls Trustee office on Maynardville Highway and proceeded to pay a $1700 property tax bill….entirely in coins..
Yes, the $1700 tax bill was paid in coinage.
There was a note attached to the payment that read: “For Ragsdale tip money.”
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Read More..>>Cynthia Finch resigns
We heard rumors of this all afternoon. Now iit’s been confirmed.
Finch resigned following a 90-minute meeting with Mayor Ragsdale’s Chief of Staff Mike Arms and Finance Director John Troyer. The mayor’s office said Finch had yet to put her resignation in writing.
The mayor’s office also declined to go into detail on what that meeting was [...]
New press person for Ragsdale
It’s Susanne Dupes.
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New poll shows uptick in approval for Knox County government
Hmmmmm….interesting:
The mid-January poll suggests Knox County Mayor Mike Ragsdale’s job approval up from a similar survey last fall.
The mid-January poll shows 44 percent of respondents approving or strongly approving of Mayor Ragsdale’s job performance, with the remaining 56 percent expressing disapproval or strong disapproval.
In a similar survey in the fall, around 33 percent gave Mayor [...]
Cynthia Finch, Requitta Bone back in the news
Kay Watson takes a closer look at ties between Finch and several organizations receiving tax dollars:
Cynthia Finch is the Mayor’s Director of Community Services. Her office monitors county, state, and federal grant money distributed to dozens of organizations, including one run by her sister, Jacqueline Collins.
Tax documents recently filed by Collins for TennCorp Community Services [...]
Lump of coal for Knox County government
Conservative blogger David Oatney points to a commentary from conservative Tennessee Center for Policy Research criticizing Mayor Ragsdale and County Commissioners for the year that was:
This year, no one deserves more to wake up on Christmas Day to a stocking
filled with coal than Knox County’s elected officials, according to Tennessee
Center for Policy Research President Drew [...]
