More of the same.

What it means: Unfortunately more of the same.

A total of 2,462 votes were cast out of roughly 40,000 registered voters, for a whopping 6% of the registered population even caring about the election.

The election was a bigger statement about the people of Franklin than the candidates – time for a big property tax increase.

And how about those 108 votes for D-Mac in an uncontested election? Interesting – sounds like an exploratory committee should be formed for the next election cycle.

Downtown:

Nothing new, will be more of the same – keeping downtowners in their little cocoon insulated with hundreds of millions of tax dollars co-opted from honest citizens for little more than a perpetual private property improvement project, while the rest of the city goes to shit.

It’s been decades in the ... planning ... and no doubt required a inordinate amount of co-opted City resources – resources that perhaps only a person in a city position could re-direct.

Ward 1:

Like I said, Captain Pike could show up for the job in Cool Springs and hit the autopilot button. Keep in mind that items such as the McEwen Shenanigan (still no published report), the razing of Roper’s Knob, and those God-awful power towers in the Mill – inherited or slipped in under her nose - happened on Burger’s watch. A sinking ship is only as good as its last captain.

What is unfortunate about Burger’s re-election is the Heritage Church track record that disregarded the wishes of residents of the 3rd Ward, and its representative Alderman, all while demonstrating just how phony and baseless Franklin’s planning and zoning regulations are (they’re essentially for sale).

When your tie to a ward other than your own is merely voting on your fellow alderman's church (who also votes on their own church), it's a dereliction of public service to vote against the citizens ... that mentality is about as good as an alderman saying he's leaving the arena because it's too political - after leading the red hat charge - certainly the most politicallly-driven issue in his tenure.

You simply can’t have someone in that position, that in a nonchalant and dismissive manner, subjectively determines that acres and acres of commercial lighting can’t possibly have any impact on a neighborhood, while completely ignoring the compunded ramifications of a traffic report where the City's own consultant details failed levels of service.

Skinner

Speaking of failed levels of service, and Skinner’s new role as elected Alderman rather than appointed lapdog, time for Skinner to turn off the cruise control and get busy.


Nearly another two years of your life just went by along with the B.S. by the at-Largers who proclaimed they would fix traffic and get the water supply fixed, and really the only thing that's happened is Skinner voted for $treet$ham, as well as limited 2nd Amendment rights even further - by the way, where are all of those drinken gun fights spilling out into the streets and city parks? Can you name just one?