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Letter: Unbridled defense of Mayor Frank challenged

Posted at 1:19 am April 7, 2014
By Oak Ridge Today Letters 19 Comments

Myron Iwanski

Myron Iwanski

Note: Anderson County Commissioner Myron Iwanski wrote this letter in response to a March letter by Clinton resident Stephen Flick.

To the Editor:

In a guest column, Stephen Flick states that my question to the mayor about the recent state audit was intended to embarrass and harass the mayor. A little background might help explain why I raised the question.

The recently completed State Financial Audit for Anderson County raised serious concerns about overspending by $22,740 on a salary in one of the mayor’s offices—which is in violation of state law. The audit finding and responses are available on the state website here on pages 252 and 253.

As noted in the audit report, of particular concern to the auditors was that this overspending occurred after County Commission twice turned down the mayor’s requests for this funding increase and that the mayor knowingly overspent on this salary anyway.

This is the first time in my 20 years on the Audit Committee that we have had a finding like this. [Read more…]

Filed Under: Letters, Opinion Tagged With: Anderson County, Anderson County Commission, Audit Committee, audit finding, financial audit, mayor, Myron Iwanski, state audit, Stephen Flick

Letter: Makes me appreciate my pastor

Posted at 1:00 am April 7, 2014
By Oak Ridge Today Letters 1 Comment

Chuck Fritts

Chuck Fritts

Anderson County Commission Chairman Chuck Fritts wrote this letter in response to a March letter by Clinton resident Stephen Flick.

To the Editor:

With the May 6 primary drawing closer and the Aug. 7 general election not far behind, you are going to start seeing a lot of negative ads, articles, and letters to the editors in our newspapers, flyers/letters in your mail, and ads on your TVs. It’s extremely sad that a candidate can no longer run on their own merits and what they stand for, but they have to try and always attack their opponents. In the end, they think that this will win them votes, but in many cases it just turns a lot of folks off and in the long run loses that candidate the votes they are seeking. You used to just see this type of campaigning in the state and national elections only, but anymore it’s starting to get extremely bad even here at the local level. I’ve been a county commissioner now for 12 years and have gone through three elections, and I can honestly say that I have never ever run a negative campaign. I’ve run on my merits only and have never attacked another opponent. When I go door-to-door or talk to a potential voter, I talk about myself only and always ask if they have any questions.

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Filed Under: Letters, Opinion Tagged With: Anderson County, Anderson County Commission, Anderson County Law Director, Chuck Fritts, general election, mayor, negative campaign, primary, Sheriff's Department, Stephen Flick

Letter: A defense of Mayor Frank

Posted at 12:46 am April 7, 2014
By Oak Ridge Today Letters Leave a Comment

Stephen Flick

Stephen Flick

To the Editor:

When Terry Frank assumed the office of county mayor for Anderson County, she barely had time to sit down behind her office desk before Chuck Fritts initiated his withering and relentless assault against her. With the least provocation, Fritts has repeatedly attempted to advance his agenda as openly and as scathingly as possible against Mayor Frank. Seizing as much media attention as possible, Fritts has continued his attacks from the opening of Mayor Frank’s tenure down to the present. In response to one of the first open attacks Fritts made against her “Car Gate,” Mayor Frank candidly refuted Fritts’ charges and laid down an olive branch to him and his politicalcolleagues, asking them to lay aside the campaign mode of relating to each other. Had Mr. Fritts responded in a similar spirit, he could have saved our county much strife over the last 16-18 months.

As Fritts continued his attacks against the mayor, his political allies were emboldened to take up the standard with him. The recent February meeting of the County Commissioners is one recent example. [Read more…]

Filed Under: Letters, Opinion Tagged With: Anderson County, Chuck Fritts, mayor, Myron Iwanski, national motto, Stephen Flick, Terry Frank

Fifth ‘In God We Trust’ sign, flagpole, vets memorial celebrated at courthouse

Posted at 2:40 pm September 21, 2013
By John Huotari 1 Comment

Anderson County General Session Court In God We Trust Sign

Steve McDonald of Calvary Baptist Church introduces a new “In God We Trust” sign on the side of the Anderson County General Sessions Division II Courthouse in Oak Ridge.

A sign inscribed with the national motto “In God We Trust” was unveiled on the side of a Anderson County courthouse in Oak Ridge on Friday.

It’s the fifth “In God We Trust” sign to be posted on a county courthouse since July in a citizen-led initiative that has prompted a debate over the proper separation of church and state.

Also celebrated during a lunchtime ceremony Friday were a flagpole and memorial to five Anderson County veterans killed in the past decade in the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. [Read more…]

Filed Under: Anderson County, Government, Top Stories Tagged With: Afghanistan, Anderson County, Anderson County Commission, Anderson County Courthouse, Anderson County General Sessions Court, Anderson County Veterans Office, Atomic City Tool, Brad Heun, Daniel Morris, flagpole, Glenn Morris, In God We Trust, Iraq, Kathy Moore, Leon Jaquet, Lynn Byrge, Oak Ridge Veterans of Foreign Wars, Robert McKamey, Robert Smith, Ron Murch, Secret City, secular, Separation of Church and State, Stephen Flick, veterans, Veterans Memorial

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