Monday, May 11, 2009
Crazy Crap / Kotz / Law and Order / Legislature / Politics Ron Ramsey, Prince of Shamelessness, Tops This Week's Kook Power Rankings
Posted by Pete Kotz on Mon, May 11, 2009 at 5:32 AM
1. Lt Gov. Ron Ramsey: The Supreme Leader of the legislature's Goober Faction was at it again last week when he appointed Dr. Kenneth Hill, owner of a wacky Christian radio station, to the Tennessee Regulatory Authority. Hill may not know much about regulating utilities and telecommunications. But he does throw money at Republican candidates. And if what's good for Ron Ramsey is bad for Tennessee, so be it. One question: Will TRA meetings now be conducted by speaking in tongues?
2. Nashville Scientologists: That zany religious sect isn't too big on the Ol' Love Thy Neighbor Deal. So it had some peaceful protesters arrested outside its building by some vigilant rent-a-cops unfamiliar with public property laws. Maybe we need all these gun bills after all -- if only to protect us from the Scientologists.
3. Tennessee House: Taking its cue from the North Korean government, the House voted last week to make secret the list of 220,000 Tennesseans who hold handgun carry permits. While no one wants government secrecy, the North Korean theme payoff will come when legislators start wearing those cool Chairman Mao uniforms and launch nuclear weapons tests over Kentucky.
4. Sen. Mae Beavers: TV news producers celebrated when she voted to allow guns on playgrounds and in city parks. Nothing pumps the ratings more than a gun battle over a disputed call during Little Jenny's softball game.
5. Windlands Center: The White House, Tenn., nursing home put the capital G in greed when it took an 81-year-old woman's deposit. Seems she unexpectedly died, thus breaking her contract. So administrators refused to return her $900 deposit, securing a permanent vacation home on the Burning Lake of Fire when they expire. We'll bring the marshmallows.
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When is AECC President Kenneth C. Hill going to finally get around to fililng his 2002 Form 990 Return of Organization Exempt From Income Tax for Appalachian Educational Communication Corporation (AECC) with the Internal Revenue Service?
The U.S. Internal Revenue Code requires that tax exempt organizations (EO) collecting more than $25,000 per year in contributions from the public to file a Form 990 with the IRS, provide photocopies or .pdf files of the same Form 990 for public inspection at the EO's offices, and even make photocopies to anyone in the public making such records.
Hill filed a 2001 Form 990 for AECC listing $875,914 of total revenue on line 12 and a 2003 From 990 for AECC listing $1,029,388, so why did Hill choose not to file the 2002 Form 990 for AECC as pursuant to federal law.
The 2002 AECC Form 990 is not onfile with guidestar.org (guidestar posts EO Form 990 for public inspection on the internet after these forms have been processed and released by the Internal Revenue Service)?
Who knows? 2002-2003 was a very busy year for the future Tennessee Regulatory Authority nominee Kenneth C. Hill as he was busy moving the offices and studio of both his 501(c)(3) AECC and his for-profit Information Communications Corporation (ICC; d.b.a. WPWT 870 AM) from a re-fab steel building located in a remote section of Sullivan County and into the present first floor location of both AECC and ICC into John Gregory's posh $4.3 million dollar Leitner Pharmaceutical Building.
Hill was also pretty busy moving his personal residence about Sullivan County during this same period of time as he moved from his former residence in Bluff City valued then at approximately $121,000 (which he still owns) and into his newer, and upscaled residence in Blountville --- the Taj MaHill --- then valued around approximately $317,000.
It is my understanding that Hill is also required to file these same Form 990s (plus annual audits) for AECC with the Tennessee Secertary of State...also available for convenient public inspection, should you live in Nashville. Perhaps Hill filed a copy of the 2002 Form 990 with the TNSOS and just forgot to file the same required public inspection document with the IRS.
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I still can't get over the fact that the House voted to make secret the list of Tennesseans who hold handgun carry permits, but at least one asshat permit holder in Knoxville felt the need to walk around with a badge "identifying him as a handgun permit holder." That's right, it wasn't a fake police badge but a badge telling all the world what the Tennessee House just spent weeks trying to shield.
Tennessee just gets stranger and stranger.
