This morning Property Assessor Phil Ballard called the Knox Co Sheriffs Department for “security” because he was set to lay off a few employees, accept a retirement and accept a resignation. His act in getting security was nothing more than a police state dictatorship form of intimidation to the other employees of the office, to say you stay in line or I will waste the county’s resources of cops on you. Just think of how many home burglaries occurred while our county officers were used by a scared little Property Assessor.
Neither former Property Assessor Parkey Strader, John Whitehead or Former Register of Deeds Steve Hall ever called the Sheriff’s office when they laid someone off. This is Ballard’s 2.0 version of “Promises Made, Promises Kept” during the campaign he promised more jobs to new cronies, political operatives and contributors. So he had to get rid of five today. But hold on there are promises of two, three or more tomorrow or in the near future.
So, while five people are no longer employed in the assessors office and the sheriff’s department kept him safe during the day. Ballard is now safe working through the night in his basement with his farm on Farmville. Hopefully one of his farmville horses doesn’t kick him while he is farming tonight.
