As little as they do, it would be interesting to see if they show up to watch their heir apparent and well groomed protege plead guilty to official misconduct and walk away from a job he was elected to do?

Satterfied tweeted that the Congressman was in court with him.

Sounds like he's being prosecuted by an out of town DA? (Bright)

There's a picture of JDIII w/ both of his parents.

If official misconduct is a felony in this state, I'd say Haslam has got some explaining to do about his thought process when it come to appointing judges.......... or giving no bid contracts to his buddies.

Do you think it's a coincidence that they drop this right before the holliday?

Slightly off-topic, but it's interesting that Satterfield's first line doesn't contain any of her usual rhetoric:

KNOXVILLE — Knox County Trustee John Duncan III pleaded guilty today in Criminal Court to a felony charge of official misconduct and resigned from office.

He will now forever be known as "disgraced former trustee John Duncan III"

KNS commenters are asleep at the wheel. Nobody has blamed Obama yet.

Donilla the career killa in at the top of the heap again.

Satterfield wrote a better, more objective article this a.m. than most puff and spin sideshows that usually accompany pieces on the Duncan clan, particularly the woes of JDIII (who now only goes by John Duncan).

Would like to have seen a question or two posed to Jimmy Duncan along the lines of how his son got divorced, tossed, convicted, threw two employees under the bus, before his initial term in office was completed and before he even had the opportunity to assemble a host committee for a re-election fundraiser.

With two reporters all over a story, can you image how much better our local government would function if we had two competing news organizations tracking a story and trying to address community credibility and integrity problems in our local government rather than continually tell us how wonderful they are?

Oh, my. How embarrassing it must be for the Duncan clan.

Official misconduct.

No surprise.

Probation.

No surprise.

Chance for diversion.

No surprise.

So why did this guy get to draw a check for seven months after Tindell and Burnett pled out?

"Putting the trust back in trustee"

Way past time.

This right here is my candidate for Quote Of The Day:

First meeting of "Our Sons Are Shitheads" support group meets in Knoxville tonight. Contact James Haslam or US Rep Jimmy Duncan for details.

— AckerMoxley (@AckerMoxley) July 2, 2013

2332 News Sentinel Drive
Knoxville, Tennessee 37921

So, um......

.... who will take JD2's seat when he retires?

According to Mike Donila, JD3 is lucky he is able to be grandfathered in for judicial diversion.

Under a state law that took effect last July, officials who commit crimes "in the person's official capacity or involved in the duties of the person's office" are no longer allowed judicial diversion.

To me one of the worst parts is what this does to the many, many good people who work in government.

An account makes a mistake, few then make a conclusion about all accountants.

Construction worker....same thing.

Someone is government does something bad and an amazing number of people think everyone in government and politics are crooked and/or lazy.

It's just too bad. Most of the people I worked with in both City and County government were hard working professionals.

I'm not blaming the media at all. And compared to "everything is good" something like the Duncan affair IS news. Heck, I did news for 20 years. My Dad was a newspaper editor and so was his brother.

And, honestly, I have never dealt with a reporter who cared about sales or viewers. They generally just aren't wired that way.

I'm not sure where this whole attitude started. Watergate was certainly a turning point in a lack of trust in government.

Reporters know that govt is much more stable as a career in tv or newspaper. How this story is reported will greatly impact who will lead the state.

There's a helluva lot riding on this, and the court of public opinion, in this case, as the court of law.