Thank you Susan for the 411. He taxes us to death, lies to us about what he is spending it on then uses the people's money for such things as his party bunker.
The crime is going to force me to move out of TN and the taxes rising.
I am pleased you brought this to our attention.
Thanks again,

Fiscal responsibility goes much deeper than just controlling the volume of the money spent. Current Tennessee law only seems to demand responsibility with BORROWED money. If you take regularly occurring tax income and blow it on the most outrageous things, like convention centers, dead railroad tracks and other economic development fantasies, there is no protection by the state from local government mass hysteria.
Tennessee has an inventory of 186.5 square miles of industrial undeveloped acreage that was accumulated over the years as the next factory. Most of this space is government controlled and off the tax rolls. Most of that space will never be a factory because ,by my estimates, that is enough space to move 20 percent of all US manufacturing to Tennessee.
A lot of this acreage was accumulated as mega parks in the race to get the Toyota plant that eventually went to Mississippi. Tennessee lost that plant even though there were $400 million dollars worth of incentives against $298 million in incentives offered by Mississippi.
The state can not stop the madness because it is culprit. Money from the state Department of Economic and Community Development, The Tennessee Department of Labor and even some federal agencies is pouring into funds that buy advice from "consultants" who are telling everybody to build empty buildings to attract industry.
Nothing has stopped the decline in the number of manufacturing paychecks since the peak year of 1979.