Well, ever since Gov.-elect Bill Haslam announced the planned date of his resignation it's been common knowledge that this is what they would do. Vice Mayor Bob Becker was in attendance at the news conference and discussed the replacement process then, specifically that a meeting would be held the day of the resignation.

There's a suspicious absence of information in your post. Lots of vague pronouns, some hedging. What are you talking about?

Oh good grief. Pearls of wisdom from #9 by way of Ron Peabody by way of Hizzlatehonor. The law department has said that what Council is doing is consistent with the charter.

Some people just have to object to EVERY damn thing.

I wondered what it was they were amending... I think it was 11e on the agenda?

Can you shed any light on the issue? Just the one news channel (WATE)covered it and said a small change had been made but didn't say what the change had been made to...

thanks.

Yep, I think it does have train wreck all over it.

Well, if it's bad enough for KPD to transport council members to the C/C Bldg, I guess most of us will be watching from home. That's a shame. Let's home it's not that bad.

Although I hear from my friends in Little Rock that it started there right when it was predicted and it's coming down fast and furious. Guess we'll find out in the morning.

I am very confident that Grieve will get votes from both Nick P. and Nick DLV.

Hmm, that seems to contradict the interview Nick P. gave to Pam Strickland last week.

And no, I'm not hating on Pavlis. I'm just following this thing pretty closely, trying to scope it out, and so making an observation.

BTW, FWIW, I'm predicting Bailey gets two votes the first round.

Me like you Betty have seen tons of appointments & not just the term limit turmoil ones...& I've never heard tell of this process.

The way it has always worked is that folks stuck with their candidate till that candidate was dropped from the ballot.

On Black Wed & I could be WAY off base on this..Mark Harmon switched from Elaine Davis to Scott Davis, before Elaine was dropped from the ballot, in the voting in the 4th county commission district.

Tank I believe stuck with Elaine till she was dropped from the ballot.

But & if I'm right on what I remember about Black Wed. Mark Harmon is the exception not the rule.

So I'm wondering..when do those voting for a candidate stuck on 2 votes ( theirs & the candidate)..that doesn't drop out..jump ship & vote for another candidate?

That puts things in a different light.

But I'm still a bit surprised. Grieve seems to be listening quite a bit to Victor Ashe. It's well known that Ashe and Pavlis didn't exactly get along.

So an Ashe, Grieve, Pavlis coalition seems weird. But then politics, bedfellows, and all that.

Bean, you can play that game all day, but I know what Pavlis said and I know what I typed and it was exactly what he said. If he has a problem with the column, and if he's the upstanding person that so many people seem to think he is then he needs to take that up with me instead of talking with you about it behind my back. He's got my phone number and my e-mail address. If for some reason he's lost one or both, he can get them from somebody at the newspaper. Scott Barker, specifically, but anybody there he might get in touch with will get him to somebody who can get my contact information.

Maybe he didn't think I was paying such close attention to what he was saying. I don't play games with sources. I play straight with them.

As for Forrester. I called for Forrester to step aside, and then I said to look for him to be defeated, but I never said he would be defeated. I very carefully let Doug Horne say that. I'm no fool when it comes to TNDP insider politics. Those people, as I've said more than once, eat their young. I'm not an expert on them, don't pretend to be, and, frankly, and not sure that I want to be. But I didn't say it in and of myself. I quoted someone. You and I know there's a big difference.

And while we've got it out here, Bean, you haven't liked me since I got on here and made some crazy comment about Victor based on a 30-year-old memory that I hadn't checked and didn't have anything invested in. I forgot about it, and went about my business, but you brought it up two or three years later at knoxviews breakfast where it hadn't even been discussed in what felt to me was an attempt to show that you were right and I was wrong.

I'd clearly forgotten, because -- thank God -- I am not an expert on Victor and don't want to be. So let's just get that over with. I conceded that what I said was stupid and was made from a bad memory that should have been checked before I started having conversations in Knoxville after living away for so long. I concede that you know everything about Victor and I know practically nothing.

I don't have the institutional memory that you and some others have. But I do have good journalistic instincts, and I have fresh eyes to look at some things that would be good for a few people around here to have. Fresh eyes, yet still native eyes. So, I can still do this as well as most, maybe better than some.

Play fair.