Every now and then, an issue comes before the Metro Council that serves as a litmus test for each member’s intelligence and honesty. Last week, The Tennessean’s Brad Schrade reported that 17 members of the Metro Council signed a petition asking Vice Mayor Howard Gentry to tear down the new window installed between the council chambers and a back room and instead replace it with a door. Previously, council members congregated secretly in that sequestered back room lobbying each other, privately socializing and disrupting the official proceedings. Here is a list of the members—and their contact information—who inexplicably thought that was a good way to govern:
Buck Dozier, buck.dozier@nashville.gov, 868-4042
Carolyn Baldwin Tucker, carolyn.tucker@nashville.gov, 868-4060
Chester Hughes, chester.hughes@nashville.gov, 865-6137
Michael Craddock, michael.craddock@nashville.gov, 226-0521
Pam Murray, pam.murray@nashville.gov, 248-3556
Jason Hart, jason.hart@nashville.gov, 262-6010
Jim Forkum, jim.forkum@nashville.gov, 865-4521
Rip Ryman, rip.ryman@nashville.gov, 859-0409
Feller Brown, feller.brown@nashville.gov, 847-3958
Jim Gotto, jim.gotto@nashville.gov, 883-3087
Carl Burch, carl.burch@nashville.gov, 883-3695
Harold White, harold.white@nashville.gov, 889-6572
J.B. Loring, j.b.loring@nashville.gov, 885-0780
Ronnie Greer, ronnie.greer@nashville.gov, 385-2893
Ludye Wallace, ludye.wallace@nashville.gov, 329-4356
Billy Joe Walls, billyjoe.walls@nashville.gov, 353-6248
Edward Whitmore, edward.whitmore@nashville.gov, 321-0795
