Here's some breaking news from the DT - Link...

“If you want to talk to somebody, sure, you don’t have to run that through me,” Cunningham said. “I don’t have time to fool with every citizen’s requests and reporters should have access, but if you want a lot of data that is going to take a lot of persons to find, that should flow through me..."

Alrighty then. Wonder if some of the other candidates for County Mayor might have had more time to "fool" with that pesky public? Most of the article is reporting on Mayor Cunningham's placement of the Sheriff's vehicle info on-line, and a little about a brand new procedure to funnel all requests for information from departments under his authority through his office. Even those questions from commissioners, who might be requesting it on behalf of their pesky constituents.

But back to the cars:

Members of some local citizens groups have claimed that about 25 vehicles were missing from the Sheriff’s Office inventory, compared to the number listed in previous audits. Auditors from the Tennessee Comptroller of the Treasury’s Office found deficiencies in the paperwork tracking the disposition of about eight Blount County Sheriff’s Office vehicles, according to the 2007 audit report released Dec. 28, but made no mention of actual missing vehicles in the report.

Here's a link to the Sheriff's vehicle info: Link...

Cunningham has declared the issue a “closed matter.”

'Nuff said.