What can you say? Someone doesn't like Mayor Burchett. How in the world did she/they get one of his 1099s? I tell you, it's hard enough to do your taxes, then, if running for office, you have to do the same thing in a statement of interest. Do they have accountants that specialize in statements of interest?

The News Sentinel has a lot of words on this topic, including trying to say he took the money and voted on something that was related. Where they get this stuff, I'd like to know. Shouldn't they have more info before they allude to wrong-doing? They interviewed two people from the company with nothing to back up the KNS statement. Then, they interviewed someone on the Knox MPC who the KNS was told worked at this company, but the person said they had never heard of the company, much less worked there. Can you get the KNS at the grocery aisle like the other scandal rags?

Who, I wonder, could hold animus towards Burchett and have had access to his 1099s?

She's good pals with Allison, which, if they had bothered to google, would have found out very easily.

And what they also left out is an anon mass email (presumably from AB) went out the day before alleging everything that ended up in the ethics complaint filed the next day. It was allegedly sent to most of the legislature. (I was just forwarded a copy). If she had actually found out about it on Twitter, where'd she get the pages of supporting documentation to file with it? It's depressing as hell that the editors in Nashville aren't questioning the really shitty reporting on all of this.

OK, who is she?

The conservative PAC (or whatever it is) that keeps showing up in my FB thread is also slamming Matlock.

Tim is as straight a shooter as there is. He and I don't always agree on policy but you always know where he stands because he'll look you in the eye and tell the truth. In addition, Tim understands that government has a function, something many Republicans, in their haste to avoid responsibility, try to deny. Again, we might disagree on certain functions of government, but we agree on others. And Tim listens. To insinuate that Tim deliberately hid a 1099 would be asking those of us that know him to believe that, out of the blue, one morning Tim woke up stupid and dishonest. We all make stupid mistakes and that's why we have divorce laws, but I simply don't believe Tim is dishonest. I will vouch for his integrity anywhere, anytime.

Now there's a new anonymous twitter account posting a photo of the top of Burchett's 2009 tax return, saying more to come...