Knox County voters fall asleep
The Knox County primary election in February seemed to send a message that voters in this county were still angry over Black Wednesday and intended to exert their control over elected officials run amok; today's county general election proved that assumption wrong. With today's election of Sisk, Ballard, Witt, and especially Jones, the people of Knox County have demonstrated a distressingly short attention span and an apparently high tolerance for corrupt back-room deals among elected officials.
Today's message is simple: all the GOB's have to do is wait long enough, and the voters of this county will forget whatever transgressions may have angered them in the past.
A couple of bright spots in today's results don't banish the darkness; Amy Broyles won decisively against another Black Wednesday character, and two desperately needed county charter amendments passed overwhelmingly. Still, the balance of today's outcome tells the perpetrators of Black Wednesday (and their financial backers) that all they have to do is wait long enough, and the public will fall asleep once again.