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Breaking News: Judge Paty Says She Was Improperly Approached By Mayor In Pet Store Case

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Mayor, judge at odds over pet store case

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Why this it so important to you

Imagine you go to court for a ticket, or because you are arrested for any reason,

or an inspector cites you to court, or someone sues you, well we have  mayor that will 

go behind the scenes to illegally try to influence a sitting judge to affect your case!

This is beyond wrong it is illegal.

Littlefield has no respect for the law

He does not respect the judges

and he certainly does not respect we the people of this city

Because of his actions in this case it will cost the citizens of Chattanooga

thousands of dollars, perhaps tens of thousands for a new trial

the pet store will suffer and certainly the animals will as this travesty drags on

The mayor never asked McCamy Shelter why it cost 40,000 dollars to care for

these animals for the short time they possessed them.

He does not care he does what he wants.

Together we can remove him

Please read below to learn facts why we are recalling the Mayor.    We need EVERY signer to take a petition and get it filled out weekly between now and 8/15.    We need county people to help out.  You are fighting FUTURE annexation, FUTURE corruption and FURTHER corruption.  The people you see volunteering cannot win this recall FOR you.  You must PARTICIPATE and the sooner the better.  Thank you!

 

 PETITION TOTAL TODAY: 3480

GOAL: 15,000

 

    Our volunteer goal is to staff NORTHGATE library from 10-6 with volunteers AND plan to have all 3 voting locations open on 8/5/2010

Thank you "Towing companies", Buddy's Shoe Repair ,  Chattanooga Bar Stools, Dr. Atkins @ Brainerd Animal Clinic, Medical Arts Pharmacy, Associates in Real Estate  and others for hosting petitions.

The Issues:  Ron has ignored government requirements in the stormwater permit he helped write.

 ►  While letters from TDEC were stated Ron was short 1.6 million dollars and had taken all 1.5 million dollars of stormwater reserves for other purposes.  Ron asked for 100,000,000 dollars over four years.  

 ►This was a 300% increase in fees for homeowners and a crushing blow for businesses, churches and other nonprofits.  It is scheduled to rise again in 4 months.

 ►  This stormwater fee and taxes he plans, make Chattanooga number one in Tennessee taxes.

 ► Ron is rewriting the stormwater permit to make it more onerous and expensive for us all.  In January he asked for and got a 600,000 dollar increase in permits and fees effective the end of June.  

 ►Then Littlefield requested an over 30,000,000 dollar increase in property taxes.

 ►Ron has ignored the gangs and police desires to deal with them.

 ►Each year for the last four years the police force has shrunk leaving fewer  officers to confront more criminals.

 ►Ron called the 5 person shootings in Coolidge Park not gang related but flash crowds.

 ►Ron has alternately diminished the police with the attempted reappointment of Chief Cooper and the plan to turn the police over to Sheriff Hammond for “a dollar year”.

 ►Annexation requires more services, the budget must be increased to pay for these, and taxes raised to pay for the budget.

 ►Ron is in the process of annexation thousands of county residents to grow a bigger city and a bigger budget.   These people have no vote in this but have filed lawsuits to stop it.

 ►Ron will spend millions of our money fighting in court and providing unwanted and unneeded services.  Admitting no justification for this he has said it is really so he can force metro government during his reign.

 ►In January he asked for and got a 600,000 dollar increase in permits and fees effective the end of June.

 ►Then Littlefield requested an over 30,000,000 dollar increase in property taxes or a 33% increase!   On each increase he stated "Well, they have not been raised in a long time".

  ►Our government should be about us, our money should not be used for Littlefield dreams, but necessary government services.  Littlefield spent our money for his projects in the past and keep doing more if we do not stop him.

 

 "To not have higher taxes and more waste, to clean up our government, we must recall this mayor now!"

---Jim Folkner

 

**Please go to The Petition page to print a petition and get others to sign.Mail to the address on the petition as soon as possible to bring personally to location at bottom of page or on Volunteer or Calendar tab. (Click on words in red  above to open PAGES about LIttlefield's escapades in our good city.)

 **Local businesses willing to "host" a petition at their store, restaurant, contact us and we will post your business, as well.  Thank you!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 




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When asked If he was worried about the voters, Littlefield said; "What are they going to do, recall me?"

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Legal Problems of Mayor

Its important for the Mayor to realize he is not above the law.

Ron is finding this out on our dime. This is why the cities legal

fees go up and up. More coming on cities legal problems.

 

Voice your opinion on the 13 million dollars parking garage for TVA

paid by citizens of Chattanooga.

 

Coming soon: citizens speak out and expose scandal of tax money

spent by the mayor on the farmers market property.

Updates on Legal fees

Ron Littlefield has consistently spoken against the independent criminal investigations into the city and is against the recouping of hundreds of thousands of taxpayer dollars that were paid  illegally to the city attorneys office. According to the mayor’s own auditor, the Tennessee attorney general, and the Tennessee Comptroller's office, this was wrong.

Mayor Ron Littlefield continues to fall under state accusations that he acted illegally in hiring outside attorneys and paying office rent, secretarial support, staff support and fringe benefits for city attorneys. Littlefield said in his defense, "This has gone on for years and we are beating a dead horse because we have moved them in house".

By bringing them "in house" he has ended up paying them more than when

he improperly paid them "out of house". This Littlefield fix has a cure that is

worse than the disease. Littlefield does not realize or accept that state law was designed to save the taxpayers money not the reverse.

For two years the city attorneys total expenses have been declining, With 2010 expected to cost the taxpayers $852,781. Now the expectation is that we will spend 1,225,007 in 2011, instead of saving money and righting a wrong Littlefield ended up raising the total city attorney’s budget by almost 43% and over $372,000 taxpayer dollars.

This data is based upon city information submitted on June 22, 2010 as a partial response to our open records request.

The mayor has refused to post further data.