The Former Ambassador to Poland and now writer of a column in a community weekly throw away paper says because Sam Anderson lived outside the city and was appointed in violation of the law to the Civil Service Board and because he is retired from the City of Knoxville, Knox County Schools and Knoxville City Schools.
Victor says the rule should be ignored, better yet he says the city should annex Anderson’s home as a corrective action. The problem is remedying the past violation of his service. Ashe says the law be damned. That is the same thinking that Ashe rejected on his county friends during the 2006 TN Supreme Court decision and the subsequent 2007 replacement of those “buddies” of Ashe.
Rule of law never was one of Ashe’s strong suits, had a real problem with anybody standing up to him. His law license is retired as he claims to be retired, thus no reason to keep a law license active (not that he ever utilized it in any manner anyway).
Wasn’t that long ago that Vic found himself the defendant in a civil rights case brought be a number of firefighters that resulted in a permanent injunction regarding his ability to move firefighters around for purely political purposes.
You can lay most of Knoxville’s deplorable for profit business sector and the inability of City of Knoxville to be in a position to compete with other smaller cities in an around East Tennessee and certainly lagging behind the wholesale economic success of Chattanooga right at the feet of J. Victor Ashe and his bumbling, stumbling, what street do you live on administration mentality. In the roster of great mayors in Tennessee, Ashe is not one of them and as Knoxville continues to futz and fahrt around with economic growth, Ashe had decades of opportunity to make downtown Knoxville a destination for business and economic growth, but he let pissy politics with Dwight Kessel, Franklin Haney, and any political challenger or opponent cloud his judgment of what was best for the City. In my opinion, he was always more concerned about what was best for Vic and that is why Knoxville lumbers along in the laggard morass that it does today.