Shock And Awe’s sources at WATE called yesterday laughing so hard. It seems that Gene Patterson‘s Tennessee This Week was recorded at 3:30 p.m. on Friday. The guest were John Whitehead, candidate for Knox County Property Assessor and his opponent Phillip Ballard. The way Patterson’s show works is that the first two segments are with the guests and the last segment is with pundits panel. The pundits panel is made up of three people. This week, Former Knox County Mayor Mike Ragsdale will debut as a pundit.
The station staff were first shocked and then began laughing because Ballard entered the station with his wife Cindy, his Chief Deputy Jim Weaver and County employee Betty Lane. Weaver and Lane are county employees, why they were not working for the taxpayers but were babysitting BallardÂ
instead is still an intriguing question.ÂEither Ballard is too scared to travel alone or he thinks the position of Property Assessor is as important as President and that he must travel with an entourage.
