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Media blasts Chattanooga Mayor Littlefield
April 23, 2006
Don't say I didn't warn you. Here is more from TennesseeTicket.com on the Chattanooga Times Free Press editorial that slaps the Mayor with a dose of reality.
So why would Mayor Littlefield issue such a public edict, particularly one that used such defamatory and inflammatory rhetoric and that depicted such deplorable bias against the person and background of Michael Weber?
Well, it could be because Mr. Weber was seeking records to document the lobbying contract by which Mayor Littlefield has managed to steer a $90,000 sweetheart fee to an old friend, Duane Smith, under a $180,000 contract to the Washington, D.C.-based lobbying firm of Akerman Senterfitt, which the city hired last September.
[The mayor’s wrongful ban - TFP - 04-21-06]
UPDATE 10:30AM: 10,000 Monkeys links to today's Chattanooga Times Free Press piece from Publisher and Editor Tom Griscom.
The Times Free Press retains lawyers to gain access to public documents, but most citizens do not have the resources to sue their elected officials to receive the information that is supposed to be readily available during normal working hours.
Tennessee’s Open Records Law was established to provide citizens with unencumbered access to public information. When a newspaper like the Times Free Press challenges bureaucrats who throw new hurdles in the way, the result is not something that favors the media, but that opens the way for Chattanoogans to review and obtain public information.
[City Hall's chilly wind - Chattanooga Times Free Press - 04-23-06]
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