Mayor Dean's Passive-Aggressive Leadership

Mayor Karl Dean once again exhibits how he leads or, really, how he doesn't. This morning's City Paper quotes his spokesperson saying the mayor is leaving the decision of where to move the Tennessee State Fair up to the nonprofit Tennessee State Fair Association.

So the Mayor Dean dumps the fair to pursue some mythical redevelopment of the Tennessee State Fairgrounds with no

Metro Finance Chief's role in trying to kill the fairgrounds

Metro Finance Chief Richard Riebeling wants to be right. Stephen George of the City Paper lowered the boom on Riebeling's long quest to redevelop the Tennessee State Fairgrounds.

Now that Riebeling is Mayor Karl Dean's crony, he pushed a plan to close the fairgrounds that he'd hatched under former Mayor Bill Purcell as chairman of the Fair Board. Riebeling has more power as director of the Metro Finance Department and the ever conflicted James Weaver, as chairman of the fair board, has his back.

Fairgrounds Won't Help Nashville Compete with Williamson County

When the task force Mayor Karl Dean created to "study" the fairgrounds, part of the discussion was having  spots in Nashville that could compete with Williamson County.

Dean's cronies and lapdogs say the Tennessee State Fairgrounds is the ticket. They are wrong. At best the fairgrounds would attract a call center or maybe a company in the industrial sector. But a corporate headquarters of the kind that choose Franklin?

Dean's $28 Million Plus Spending Folly

Mayor Karl Dean wants to spend about $28 million over the next 15 years on moving the fairgrounds to Hickory Hollow Mall. That's the cost of leases and fixing up the space there for the flea market and other functions.

It doesn't include the city's cost

Weaver the Fairgrounds Killer

Could James Weaver, an attorney with Nashville law firm Waller Lansden Dortch & Davis, be the prime player behind convincing Mayor Karl Dean to kill the Tennessee State Fairgrounds and subsequently the Tennessee State Fair?

It sure looks like it. Shortly after Dean is elected and Weaver takes over the board, the decision is made to shutdown the fair. Imagine the conversation: "Mayor,

Welcome to the Site

This blog has been created to give a forum to those who oppose Mayor Karl Dean's farce of a plan to move fairgrounds operations to Hickory Hollow Mall. With this site, we also will expose the faulty logic with such a decision as well as do what the local media has lacked the guts to do sufficiently and that is to investigate the favoritism and cronyism behind the decision.