Nick McBride is running for Knox County trustee. He announced on 4/23/25, one day after incumbent Trustee Justin Biggs hosted an underwhelming reelection kickoff in the clubroom of the new baseball stadium downtown.
Biggs’ office is under investigation by the state comptroller’s office which has already brought down two (Mike Lowe and John Duncan III) of Knox County’s last three trustees. Ed Shouse served two terms without scandal.
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The rule of holes: When you are in one, stop digging.
Biggs apparently missed the memo.
Word is he had ordered food for 700 or so, then cut the order to 350. About 100 showed up. Republican officeholders were absent. It seems when party graybeards suggested he might delay the event until the investigation ends, Biggs responded by dis-inviting them. He also denied entry to a TV station. Dig, dig, dig.
News Sentinel reporter Allie Feinberg has done a good job with the Biggs story. Investigators don’t talk, yet the young reporter has found sources for a-story-a-day since her first. Kudos.
When one Republican officeholder challenges another, expect blood in the water. Hmm. Maybe it's already there.
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Wow! Trustee not so trusted.
Wow! Trustee not so trusted.
The Nazi takeover of Knox County Government..........
That this bunch of terrorists thought they were bringing to Knoxville when Daniel, Ward and Jacobs launched their plan back in 2020 to destroy Knox County Government with a massive propaganda campaign to get rid of the Health Department and consolidate thast power to a central ruling agency isn't going like they promised it would. Our medical community has gone from being a public health envy of the world, to frankly, a laughingstock. Our medical industry results and outcomes have been abyssmal. Insurance and corporatiuons now run the show without local interference or regulation. We don't even publish necessary public health statistics anymore. We passed on wastewaterwater testing, the biggest public health response breakthrough in a century, because Glenn Jacobs, the Mayor and now head of the Health department wouildn't go get the grants when Biden had the money available. He doesn't believe in that sort of stuff. Too bad if you die.
Biggs was a major player in the move,I think it's been pretty clear to anyone that has seen the wheels his employees drive what Bigg's payoff was, yet in a way, I found it refreshing because it was good old fashioned corruption and taking money and stuff under the table is the traditional way for corrupt Knox County officials to stuff their pockets. Of course, what goes around comes around, and I moved on convinced that Biggs had done his damage. It was inevitable that he get caught, he was operating right under everyones nose. I'm kind of surprised he got away with it as long as he did. Good on Allie Feinburg for getting proof.
The larger question though, is whether or not this is an indication of the overall break-up, some would say inevitible, of the mainstream local Republicans. from the far right Nazi wing advocating a reduction of service and a consolidation of power. At what point do local voters stand up to Burchett, Daniel, Ward, Jacobs, Henderson, Blackburn and the other local and state politicians that have signed on to this movement. The problem with us being ground zero for the American Nazi movement,
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isn't so much that these values didn't exist at all, it's to what degree these values drive our government's actions. In other words, the problem is that Nazis vote and when they establish a foothold they don't do so by announcing they're Nazis, they do so be pretending to promote values, specifically freedom. (Freedom from the shackles of government service from roads and schools comes along with this.) It's totalitarinism via propaganda. It's government creating the illusion that it is incapable of function, thereby justifying shutting down.
The other issue is that Nazis vote. Glenn Jacobs holds more right-wing fascist loyalists votes in Knox County (15-25 thousand if I'm interpreting election numbers correctly, not all Jacobs voters were loyalists, and they do jump ship) then either the Democrat or Republican Party. He is a wldly successful member of this cult. And he's a rock star in the Nazi neo-con movement. He can spin a line of bullshit. That's a lot of power. We'll see how much in the next Mayors race.
P.S. Sorry about the overkill on sourcing. I've been covering Covid, and as a result local Knoxville politics, since Jan 2020. In August 2020, this started and as someone who was raised by friends parents, some doctors, I had a broad view of the inplications,
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and I called these actions for what they were. A bio-terrorist attack on Knox County. Glenn Jacobs is a terrorist. No emotion here. No judgement. That's a description of a terrorist act and theose were the people behind it. I believe it was an attempt to see how much the Nazis could get away with in a seemingly well educated community. They are a noticeable influence on Reddit/knoxville (which has banned me over this topic) and were following me around they internet, baiting me, sometimes threatening, sometimes taunting. Remember this about internet posts, you can only measure sympathizers, generally not the bad actors. Anyway, when I started calling these guys out for this right off the bat, I started getting banned, from lots of places. But I was telling the truth. And I was right. And it's still going on, whether we choose to ignore it or not.
I'll be curious to see how this Nazi end of the Party rallies or rejects Biggs. He's one of them and a loyalist, far as I know. I have never seen propaganda and media manipulation like I have from Wiatr, he's quite adept at both pressing and backing off. He's trying to field a full Nazi slate and take over the party at mid-terms.
I have no idea how Nick McBride plays into any of this.
P.P.S. Sorry about my timelyness. I spend most of my time off the grid, working on the next chapter of my writing career. It's about what drives a man deep into the mountains to write about self sufficient living and trout fishing in the mountains. Know any publishers looking for authors?