Gene Patterson v. Mike Ragsdale

Mayor Ragsdale took extreme umbrage at Gene Patterson's accurate portrayal of the Sheriff's report regarding the Mayor's veracity. For those who have not read the report, here are four statements from it that directly called into question Mayor Ragsdale's truthfulness:

"Ragsdale,with knowledge that Tyler Harber had obtained and delivered Chad Tindell's ernails, stated on March 16, 2005, that he did not know the origination of the e-mails. If Ragsdale's intent in issuing the false statement was to protect Tyler Harber, then Ragsdale was obstructing or hindering, at that time, the location of a person suspected of committing a crime."

"During the course of this investigation, a number of inconsistent statements were made. Mayor Ragsdale not only contradicted himself, some of his statements appear to be inconsistent with those of his fellow office workers and employees. Todd Cook told investigators information with full knowledge that the statements were at least misleading, if not outright false."

"On March 16, 2005, Mayor Ragsdale stated that he found, in his inbox, the emails upon Mr. Ragsdale's return for lunch on Monday, March 14,2005 and did not know where the emails had come from. This statement by Mr. Ragsdale is obviously a lie. It is in direct contradiction to the March 23, 2005 memorandum generated by Mike Arms."

"On August 16, 2005, Ragsdale continued to disavow knowledge ofthe emails when he stated that the emails ended up in the front office but was not sure how they got there."

I grant you it was a shame that Gene did not have these quotes at his immediate disposal before offering them up to Mayor Ragsdale for comment. I guess we could give Mayor Ragsdale the benefit of the doubt and chalk it all up to faulty memory.