Dean Creates Task Force to Discuss Fairgrounds Future
Nashville Mayor Karl Dean has created a task force to “lead the discussion” of the future of the Tennessee State Fairgrounds. This came on the same day that the Board of Fair Commissioners decided (more or less) to lease the race track to Tony Formosa.
To me, the decision to create the task force doesn’t bode well for the future of the fairgrounds or the track, especially when you look at how it’s stacked, and I do mean stacked.
The chair of the task force is the council lady for the district, and I doubt she’s going to go against the vocal minority who live near the track. And that vocal minority is represented on the task force in the form of Keith Moorman, the lawyer whose complaining about the track led me to start this site over two years ago.
The task force includes a Fair Board member, Charles Sueing, and a former Fair Board member, State Rep Mary Pruitt. Pruitt’s appointment to this comittee is somewhat surprising since she never showed enough interest in the fairgrounds while she was on the Board to actually attend a Fair Board meeting (at least in the 8 or 10 meetings I went to she was never there).
It’s obvious that Mayor Dean has appointed people to this task force that will not be friendly to the Fair or the Speedway. Mr. Moorman has a serious conflict of interest as does Mr. Sueing. The presence of someone from the Metro Planning Department means that they’re going to try to determine what kind of commercial use the land can be used for.
Mayor Dean and his band of elites are bound and determined to get rid of that “unsightly” track, no matter what the economic benefit to Nashville.
Think about that during the next election.
