In the campaign for Knox County Law Director Richard “Bud” Armstrong said and his campaign supporters including Knoxville lawyer Keith Burroughs said that Armstrong was homegrown and Tennessee educated in Tennessee law. His campaign boasted about 3 decades of experience in Charter form of Government law. But now that Law Director Joe Jarret has opted to resign by the end of the month in order to allow Armstrong to exercise his wealth of Tennessee law education in the Charter Review Process.
Armstrong has this to say to the Knoxville News Sentinel, “I was looking forward to some transition time,” he said. “It’s hard to evaluate an organization and improve that organization from the start when you don’t have that evaluation.” Here is the link to the News Sentinel story. Joe Jarret obviously was the smartest man in the “Deathstar”. Either way the Charter Review Committee went Armstrong would have had the opportunity to blame Jarret when Armstrong took office September 1, 2012. But now no one will have Joe to kick around anymore. Nice chess match move. Now either way Armstrong has to step up or appear not ready for prime time.
