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April 21, 2006
Hallie Unusual Behavior
Let's all get together, hold hands, and hope that none of us ever has to appear before a General Sessions Judge in Hamilton County. Or, at the very least, that none of us will draw Division II on our docket day. (Is that how that works?)
Have you seen the news about the girlfight between judicial candidates Hallie McFadden and Mary Sullivan Moore? I take that back: it's not news. I started reading the Chattanoogan article, and found myself asking, "what is this 's---'?" (I have it narrowed down to 'soap' or 'snot'.)
The main thing I know about the Division II incumbent is that he owns (or owned) shopping mall hair salons. He was appointed last October after former judge Mike Carter resigned. All three of the candidates are necessarily licensed to practice law, and some of them do so with a vengeance, apparently.
The challengers are these two who sound more like high school students than candidates for a sober office.
I won't pick on Mary S. Moore's pathetic "know this, bitch" tone, nor on her downright paranoid assertion that her phone is being tapped by one or the other of her two opponents. (How precise.) I will come right out and say that she spelled the incumbent's name wrong. It's "Bales," not "Bailes." (Bailes is a candidate's name, but he's running for County Commission, to unseat Curtis Adams.) Misspellings do tend to hurt a candidate's standings, in my estimation. (Uh-oh.)
Also: I don't know Bob Moon, but he performed a wedding for a couple of dear friends. I stood in as a groomsman in that wedding. I got close enough to Judge Bob Moon to get a strong sense that he wouldn't have had anything to do with a silly post on Nooga.com. I could always be wrong.
Sometimes I love the small-town aspects of this rather large city (metro of half a million). Sometimes I don't.
Elections | By joe lance | 10:11 PM