ORIGINALLY posted on ttamurfreesboro.blogspot.com on April 13, 2008
Jim Schroeder reports an interesting article appeared in the Chattanooga Times Free Press that has implications in our rock mining fight.
From the Chattanooga Times....
"Hamilton County Election Commission member Bart Quinn, an attorney, said Thursday he has resigned his seat on the election panel to avoid any perceived conflicts after he registered this month to begin lobbying the General Assembly.......He also is severing political campaign ties with state Sen. Bo Watson, R-Hixson, whose previous campaigns he directed......Mr. Quinn, an attorney with the law firm Chambliss, Bahner & Stophel, registered as a lobbyist on April 1 with the State Ethics Commission. He is working on behalf of Lahiere-Hill LLC, a Florida-based firm, records show. The firm is his only lobby client.................The company owns the mineral rights to thousands of acres of woodlands on the Cumberland Plateau. Lahiere-Hill hired contractors to mine limestone and other dimension stone on the plateau in the Cumberland Trail State Park near Soddy-Daisy..............The company has been involved in a legal battle with the state, a fight which moved into the legislature this year when Sen. Watson and Rep. Richard Floyd, R-Chattanooga, introduced legislation seeking to restrict “harvesting” of rock....."
Read the full article here....http://www.timesfreepress.com/news/2008/apr/11/quinn-resigns-election-commission/
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