Gene Patterson [1] reports at his blog that Scoobie Moore is now calling for County Commission to fill all vacancies in special vote on Jan. 31st with NO PUBLIC HEARINGS.

OK, then.

UPDATE: The KNS has this report [2] on the Jan. 31st anointments. Scoobie Moore says he has ten commissioners lined up in support of the plan, which are enough to carry it. (I guess that would be Scoobie, Lumpy and the eight being ousted?) Lumpy Lambert is curiously not quoted.

UPDATE: In related news, Georgiana is back and posting at Michael Silence's place. She has some scuttlebutt from the South Knox 9th District [3].

UPDATE: Remarks by former Knox County Democratic Party Chairman Jim Gray regarding a resolution adopted this week by the party:

"The first resolution simply addresses the fact that there will be an election to fill the various jobs for the remainder of the term that started August 1, 2006. We'd like to see that election sooner rather than later. The resolution does not ask that there be an election instead of appointments. Those are expected; we just want them to be short and the voters to get a second chance at filling the jobs directly ASAP."