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You Talkin' 'bout My Momma?
Superintendent Charles Q. Lindsey's written attack on County Commissioner Mary Lou Horner hasn't played well in Horner's home community of Halls, where a bunch of folks have taken exception to his making Horner the butt of his latest Superintendent's Newsletter. Horner's strapping sheriff's deputy son Bobby, however, is relatively sanguine about his momma getting bashed.
Said Horner the younger: "I thought about whipping his ass, but I think she can take him all by herself."
Tonight, Tonight
UT's halftime extravaganza in Neyland Stadium at last Saturday night's football game included poignant remarks by Sen. Fred Thompson, Tennessee's senior senator, who decided to run for reelection in part because of the Sept. 11 attacks on New York and Washington. He led off a memorial to the tragedy and its victims. The musical part of the show, however, posed a moment of irony, if not insensitivity. Sure, the music from West Side Story is beautiful and about New York and all, but the story is about gang violence in that beleaguered city. Not sure that was an appropriate selection.
Let 'em Eat TennCare
Life is still good up in the Neyland Stadium sky boxes, where we told you about lawyer Tim Irwin's remarking at the Syracuse game that he felt like he was "eating Cove Lake State Park" as he tucked into a platter of prime rib. Irwin was referring to Gov. Don Sundquist's belt-tightening measures, which included closing a bunch of state parks. Since then, The Guv has announced another round of budget cuts, and he outlined a triage plan to whittle down the rolls of TennCare recipients by sorting them into three groups and booting the least needy.
At the LSU game, Irwin was scarfing a plate of cajun roast pork and garlic mashed potatoes when someone asked him if he was still devouring parks. "Naw," he said. "I'm eating one third of TennCare."
Truth Hurts
Fourth District candidate Jim Cortese will face primary front-runner Rob Frost in the general election, and he kicked off his campaign with a press conference to accept endorsements from three of his former opponents, Albert Baah, Richard Hickey and Don Ault. The three former candidates, however, seemed as interested in beating up on Halls Shopper publisher Sandra Clark as in promoting Cortese's candidacy. What had Clark done to incur so much wrath?
Baah: "She said I couldn't win..."
Hickey: "She called me a sleeper but maybe a snoozer... well, I'm rousing up, getting out of bed."
Ault: "She told me I would lose..."
October 4, 2001 * Vol. 11, No. 40
© 2001 Metro Pulse
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