People who had a way with words in the news last week:
“We did eat the elephant all at one time, and it was tainted meat. We’ve been into some stinky meat, and we had to hold our nose and eat it because we weren’t prepared for all these salary adjustments across the board.”
— Soddy-Daisy City Commissioner Steve Everett, recalling a time the city imposed a property tax increase after 17 years without one.
“But as of now, you know, her name ID and overall popularity with Republicans are kind of what puts her at such a huge advantage starting out.”
— Mark Cunningham, vice president of the Beacon Center, on an early poll that favors Marsha Blackburn for Tennessee governor.
“I don’t want to toot my own horn, but I’m extremely powerful and able to get things done in Washington for the state, in addition to my district. But the Senate just offers a larger, deeper, stronger opportunity for me to serve.”
— U.S. Rep. Chuck Fleischmann, expressing interest in being appointed to the U.S. Senate seat if Blackburn becomes governor of Tennessee.
“We have animals in, frankly, inhumane spaces. They are, you know, in places they ideally would not be, if we did not have a space crunch.”
— Inga Fricke, McKamey Animal Center executive director, on conditions at the shelter.
“And I got a whole drawer full of them. It’s a terrible, terrible idea for most people.”
— Jason Jones, Criminal Court Clerk office administrator, on property bonds to get out of jail.
“The enemy couldn’t find my son in the dark spaces he used to go because Jesus had transformed him. Satan had to come into the light, to the Father’s house, to find LeBron because that’s where he could be found.”
— Lynn Croft, the mother of LeBron Givaun, on Facebook after her son was gunned down outside a church.
“My employees will never hear, ‘Well, corporate told me so.’ That’s not in my DNA, and that’s not in Hometown’s vernacular.”
— Drew Hardin, CEO of Metro Plumbing, Heating and Air, on the Chattanooga company selling to USA Hometown Experts, an Atlanta-based company backed by private equity.
“Given the circumstances, obviously, I think they would love to see him in prison for his entire life. However, given the facts and some of the considerations to be made about trial and the evidence presented to a jury, the state made its decision to go ahead and settle that.”
— Hamilton County prosecutor Jason Demastus, on Sean Ryan Little being sentenced for the stabbing of Sara Ferguson.
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