I sent a letter to the Roane County News a week or so ago and it got published here on Roane Views.

In that letter I wanted to vent my anger that none of the $43 million or so of the TVA payment to the county was applied to anything actually hurt by the ash spill. I was right to do that but my letter seemed to bash Ron Woody for this. I know better than this and knew better than this when I wrote the letter. Sometimes when you are angry you'll shoot from the hip...and when you do that you often hit a totally innocent person. Ron Woody was not on the committee that made the spending choices, I knew that too. Ron is just the guy we elected who is charged with administrating those decisions and I know Ron will responsibly do that...we will know where every single cent goes...that is great.

Under Ron's leadership our county is progressing, developing and has a much, much brighter future. Among other accomplishments, thanks to Ron, Tony Brown, and other hard working county employees, Roane County Park is now award winning, clean and a county asset we can all enjoy with pride...I enjoy it often and point to it in pride to my friends and customers.

What a stupid, stupid thing I did...I've apologized to Ron already. I'm still upset...angry...amazed at the committee's decisions on the application of these funds, but I'm a little angrier at myself for not choosing my words better and making Ron look bad. I voted for Ron and will do so again.

I'm sentencing myself to several hours of community service...watch for me on River Road picking up litter.