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E. Coyote Meet Fellow Commissioners
In
their eagerness to exercise their new found majority rule after last year's
election, many of these commissioners are consigned to follow after a
"roadrunner" right off a cliff, while taking others with them. This is
best seen in their pursuit of the Juvenile Court system and their inept moves
that have included violating sunshine laws, calling for Federal oversight, and
now issuing a botched subpoena. This makes for good drama, but does little to
improve government.
I
would urge those commissioners that are blindly in the chase to review two
cartoon rules:
1.
No outside force can harm the coyote—except for his/her own ineptitude
or the failure of the Acme products.
2.
The coyote can stop any time—if he/her were not a fanatic. (A fanatic
is one who redoubles his effort when he has forgotten his aim.)
In
light of the past zealous efforts, there are still commissioners who appear
"school girl" giddy over the high court ruling that the charter of
Knox County, like Shelby County's, did not "expressly" establish the
offices of assessor, county clerk, register, sheriff and trustee.
As
in most cartoons, the Road Runner and the coyote follow the laws of cartoon
physics. For example, sometimes the coyote is allowed to hang in midair until he
realizes that he is about to plummet into a chasm. The coyote can overtake rocks
which fall before he does, but he still ends up being squashed by them.
Do
we want our government to look like a cartoon?
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