"Strip mining the Smokies?" - Alexander's offsprings involved

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Prominent names involved in mountain land development deal

Last Updated: 7/17/2007 4:18:59 PM

A group that includes two prominent East Tennessee businessmen and the children of a U.S. senator has bought five-thousand acres of mountain and forest land near Great Smoky Mountains National Park.

They plan to build up to 125 large homes on the property in the $19 million deal.

The purchase was led by Sam Beall, son of Ruby Tuesday Incorporated founder Sandy Beall. Sam Beall runs the upscale Blackberry Farm mountain resort in Walland.

The Three Sisters Mountain Investments group, named after three peaks on the property, includes the families of Pilot Corporation Chief Executive Jimmy Haslam and the adult children of U.S. Senator Lamar Alexander. The Alexander children will own a 1 percent stake.

The group bought the land from Atlanta-based New Forestry LLC.

http://www.wbir.com/news/local/story.aspx?storyid=47215

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Site Updated June 27, 2007

"Strip mining the Smokies?"
Site Updated June 27, 2007

Save Chilhowee Mountain and Protect the Watershed of Great Smoky Mountains National Park from a disastrous development on an ecologically sensitive and fragile mountainside.


If you haven't seen the destruction for yourself, drive up and over Chilhowee Mountain. Take Montvale Road (Hwy 336) and continue approximately 9 miles from Downtown Maryville to view from Happy Valley Road, OR, take Foothills Parkway from Walland (Hwy 321) or Chilhowee Lake (Hwy 129) to Look Rock Overlook and Fire Tower.

Save Chilhowee Mountain and Protect the Watershed of Great Smoky Mountains National Park from a disastrous development on an ecologically sensitive and fragile mountainside.

Change is inevitable; however, change must be tempered by sensitivity to our surroundings, the natural beauty of our mountains, the quality of our water, and the quality of life for all citizens --- not just the wealthy perched on the sides and tops of our mountains.


http://www.savechilhoweemountain.org/index.html

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1. R. Neal (South Knox Bubba) is trying to fight this too. nt

You ole timers remember SKB, don't ya?!

[doeriver]

2. Lame Are's Skeleton Closet (2000)

(2000) Presidential Candidate Lamar Alexander - The Dark Side: Character and Scandals
http://www.realchange.org/alexandr.htm

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Details of Lamar's Inexplicable Enrichment

In Mexico, they have a crime called "inexplicable enrichment" for politicians who accumulate large sums of money that can't be traced. Luckily for us, diligent work by the Memphis newspaper and Edward Pound and Hilary Stout of the Wall Street Journal have explained many of Lamar's sources.

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11. While he was UT President, the university spent $65,000 for entertainment at Blackberry Farms. Honey Alexander owned a third of the resort, which she bought for $10,000.

12. While governor, Lamar tried to get a highway built straight to the door of Blackberry Farms, across land that he and his cronies owned. After newspaper stories about the conflict of interest, the plan was dropped.

Lame Are goes way back with Ruby Tuesday --- before Alexander first ran for governor and Galtinburg was then "dry" (not allowing liquor to be sold by the drink at hotels and restaurants), Lame Are used a church's non-profit charter --- or rather, Jesus' non-profit charter --- in his attempt to circumvent the state law by selling liquor-by-the-drink through a church charter for RT in Galtinburg.

At least this s-hook didn't ever come close to having a shot at the U.S. Presidency...