Here's an easy prediction - no way in hell is Diane Jordan getting that appt.

I would like to see Cortney Piper seek this position.

In my opinion, same old hanging on crowd just hanging on for a free ride, perks, benefits, heff inshorance, God knows what else under the table, and we wonder why we can't get businesses to expand or relocate their production facilities to Knoxville and Knox County when you got folks like Diane Jordan clammoring for a job.

What self respecting business owner would want to place a business in a hayseed, back water, rube invested community like Knocksville run like that.

Times have changed in Knoxville. Times are in the process of changing in Knox County. Some folks who enjoyed The Way Things Were haven't yet figured out that things are different now.

We're beginning to enjoy fresh voices, fresh ideas, and an ambitious, progressive vision for what this community can be. Ms. Jordan, while likely a lovely person as an individual, as a politician, she represents what this community used to be, not what we aspire to be (and are becoming).

It's really interesting to me to see how little certain local pols have yet grasped that times truly have changed in how politics work here. We have smart, capable, creative people like Indya Kincannon and Rob Frost and Bill Lyons setting the agenda now. Times have changed. Cas Walker is gone. So are Scott Moore and Diane Jordan.

-KAG

The last thing the city council needs are those huge hats that she wears. And then there is the fact that she is still a member of the Board of Zoning Appeals (BZA), along with a few other members, that need to be removed because they are not county commissioners.
This is just more of the same old, crap politics in this town.

Good luck with that, Metulj. The yuppie spillover into the sixth district isn't where the power's at, even if the old A-E political mafia isn't all that it used to be (Renee Kesler may prove to have been a turning point, although that somewhat depends on what happens with Mark's seat)

The required redistricting after the 2010 census may get complicated, too. For years, the sixth has had to expand in order to maintain a majority African-American district (it's actually barely above 50%. Ironically, black flight has been behind the need to expand, as the district continues to shed population overall. It'll be interesting to see what the influx of whites into places like Parkridge and downtown does to the calculus.

According to a News-Sentinel story, Diane Jordan has decided not to seek the appointment, choosing instead to run for the seat in the election.

Diane has helped lots of Republicans and has friends in East Knox. I would not rule out her winning if she chooses to run. But I hate how people like her and Shouse etc. will switch from Council to Commission and vice versa. It violates the spirit of term limits.