Calling Harold White-TAKE YOUR SIGNS DOWN

Calling Councilman Harold White, "TAKE YOUR CAMPAIGN SIGNS DOWN!!" It has been ten days since the election and your political campaign signs are still out there. The citizens have been forced to look at them since the spring. Leaving your signs up will not get you anymore votes, so please go pick them up and take them home or to the trash.

Harold White is defeated by an overwhelming margin

Rest easy Donelson and Hermitage. Councilman Harold White, notorious for his many lies and lack of representation to his constituents, has been defeated in his bid for re-election by an overwhelming margin. The final count was 1530 for James Bruce Stanley and 758 for Harold White. The constituents of council district 14 sent Harold White a very clear message with the vote. They will have No More White Lies!!

Now let's see what White will do with any remaining money in his campaign war chest and if he actually remains a resident of the area or moves to a big expensive home far away. Stay tuned.

A Full Color Two-Sided Lie- Last Ditch Attempt to Deceive the People

Here it is-the last ditch effort to deceive the people of the 14th district with more of Harold White's lies. The first thing that we notice is Harold White in his clean shirt and pants pictured with a group of folks who have been hard at work cleaning up trash. Why is White not helping to clean up? Because he just showed up for the photo op. This group of neighbors behind Hermitage Hills Baptist Church has been plagued with crime and vandalism. As election time neared, White decided to get cozy with them. He also has a huge retail development being put in right behind their homes. If they think crime is bad now, just wait. White ran this same picture in the News Herald to try and deceive people that he was helping neighbors. This man is so anti-neighbor and anti-neighborhood that is not even funny. Let's hope these nice neighbors were not completely deceived. White should probably have stayed home and cleaned the junk from his own back yard. According to reports from his neighbors, they have called the Codes department about the mess several times. Strangely, Codes department never comes to investigate.

His true alliance is with his developer buddies pictured with the bulldozer. If Harold White is re-elected there will be nothing left green standing in the community except the developer's money. His allegiance is and allows has been for developers, not constituents. He stands up alongside developers, not the people of his district.

See White is cozy with the firefighters too because they gave him money. Sounds like one of his partners in crime Buck Dozier had something to do with that. Harold claims that he was once a fireman. Word on the street is it was a volunteer fire fighter job that lasted 6 months when he was young and he drank all of the time. What did White ever do for firefighters?

Harold White at a school assembly. Perhaps he is there taking credit for something else that he did not do. Would a teacher at the school please educate White about honesty and how to pronounce the word library? He continues to say Li-Berry and illustrate his ignorance.

The back of the mailer is a laundry list of MORE WHITE LIES! All of these so called donations came from taxpayer money in the form of discretionary funds that were meant for infrastructure. White and this Council used the funds to buy votes by giving to non-profits. It is all taxpayer money. Not a dime came from White. There is no donation here.

The situation with the Hermitage Elementary playground is still very fishy. It is not called Hermitage Hills Elementary as it is printed on the mailer. Guess that goes to show how familiar White is with that part of Hermitage. The all plastic and steel playground mysteriously burned one evening. Ironically, an old wooden playground right beside it was not touched, nor was a large plastic and steel playground put up by Metro Parks. The playground that burned had been built by the PTO in honor of longtime teacher Rosemary Stanley (mother of White's opponent in the 1999 and 2007 council elections). A heavy accelerant had to be used to start this fire. Many in the Hermitage Hills neighborhood believe that Harold White and his developer friends had something to do with starting the fire. If kids had been the culprits, they would have burned the wooden playground. It would have been very easy to get a fire started to that playground. Before word even reached the neighborhood, Odell Binkley was in the news raising money to replace it. Binkley and Chris Pardue chipped in with the money. Remember Pardue is the developer for the Villages of Riverwood that White rezoned for him against the wishes of 500 neighbors. Binkley wants the 280 acre farm behind Hermitage School. People believe that White and his developer friends had the playground equipment destroyed so that they could come to the rescue and save the day. They would be the heroes and protect the children and Mrs. Stanley's legacy. After screwing over the people of Hermitage with unwanted controversial rezonings, White and his developers were trying to get back into the good graces of the neighbors. No police investigation was ever conducted about the arson. White personally did not contribute a dime.

Developers gave the money for the Ruby Majors playground too. Odell Binkley made sure that his picture was in the News Herald sitting right on the front row of the dedication. This cash donation may actually have been in lieu of a required donation of land for a school.

Harold White claims to have also helped produce the Greenways Park on Stones River Road. In 2004, Harold White and Councilman-at-Large Buck Dozier sponsored a community meeting (1 day notice) where White was supporting a retail development at this site. He wanted to destroy the old Stone Hall and build a strip mall. Luckily that fell through. Metro Parks and Greenways staff made the greenways deal happen and preserved Stone Hall and Eversong Cabin. All Harold White did was sign his name to accept the money from the city because it was in his district. The new Stones River Bridge is in his district too. Before he tells you that he was responsible for that, be assured that he has nothing to do with it.

White is pictured here with Mayor Purcell. Another photo op. (Why does he have his arm around David Briley?) And White receiving an award for giving $40,000 of your tax dollars to the Senior Citizen Center and calling it a donation. What a farce!!

Harold White calls it progress. Developers call it cash. Constituents call it lack of representation. Harold White has lied before and he will again. I am not sure he knows how to do anything else. He has fought against neighbors, instead of for neighbors. He has betrayed his constituency and has tricked the elderly and the non educated into believing that because he is a pastor, he is a good person. Nothing could be further from the truth.

If White is elected, Lebanon Road from the bridge to the YMCA will become commercial. It will be another Gallatin Road. Hermitage will become another Antioch and Donelson will have so much trafic from the development of the 600 acres in the bend of the Stones River that the elderly will not be able to get to the senior citizen center. Traffic and schools will be even more over burdened. How about revitalizing the abandoned commercial spaces before he destroys any more homes or trees? What roads did he improve? Name more than one neighborhood watch that he worked with. All neighbors continually talk about is how he works against them and lies to them as he supports developer.

And as for drugs, there has been more drug activity in the 14th district in the past four years than ever before. Just last week, the undercover unit of the Metro Police were all over the yard and house on Bonnacreek Drive in Hermitage Hills. In the front yard sat a big yellow Harold White sign behind a new guard rail installed for them by White. That's not exactly what I call Progress.

Let's hope that on August 2nd the voters send him packing!!

Facts about Harold White that everyone should know

Some interesting facts.

Earlier in the summer, Harold White drove to the home of a local business owner and asked to put up a sign at his business. The man refused. White threatened him if he put up a sign for his opponent. White had his henchman threaten another local gas station owner to cause trouble if he did not remove a sign already put up by his opponent. The owner offered to put up a White sign. He was told this was not acceptable that White wanted the opponent's sign gone. It disappeared the next day. Sounds like Harold White is bullying people.

The two young ladies campaigning for Harold White at the Hermitage Library were actually paid staff that live in Mt. Juliet. They never even met Harold White before they answered his ad on Craigslist. They think he is a good man because he is a preacher. They don't even live in the county.

Mike Freeman, son of developer and campaign contributor Bill Freeman, was hired to produce White's website. His small company Digi-Graph was paid $6000 to put together White's website for two months. He has also been seen going door to door for Harold White. Sounds to me like Harold's developer friends are sucking the money right back out of his campaign as fast as they are pumping it in. Daddy and his developer friends pay White, then White pays them back with the contributions. Six thousand is rather steep for that website.

Harold White never paid the bill for his website for 2003 www.metro14.com.

Harold White was heard during early voting yelling the words "Shit" and "Son of a Bitch". Great example for a preacher or someone who wants to be your councilman. This hardly comes as a surprise after he was heard using profanity on the council floor on more than one occasion.

Harold White was seen this week in a big white Cadillac driven by developer Bill Freeman. Do we smell a rat? Sounds like another secret meeting was in the works. Wonder who they will screw next?

Harold White owes a man in Donelson hundreds of dollars that he has not paid. The man let White's daughter rent a place from him and when she got months behind decided to evict her. White went to the man and promised to pay him for the back rent if he would allow her to stay. After Harold White didn't pay the man as he had promised, White's daughter was kicked out of the rental house. White has yet to pay the man as promised.

Harold White's campaign is being run by a firm in Dallas, Texas that has close ties to Freeman- Webb Investments.

Does anyone know the name of Harold White's treasurer? Why have all of his mailings not included that information? It is the law. Guess Harold White thinks he is above the law. More like, Harold White knows that the election laws have no teeth. Why follow the law if there is no consequence? That's the kind of man people want representing them-NOT!! Oh, we forgot -Harold White never had any intention of representing the people. He is the developer's boy.

COUNCILMAN HAROLD WHITE'S SELL OUT TO DEVELOPERS-THE CAMPAIGN DISCLOSURE FOR 2007

Councilman Harold White of Donelson has sold out his district to developers. Above is part 2 of 3 campaign finance disclosures that candidates must file during an election. The money that he wants to hide is yet to come in part 3.

If you will notice, not a single campaign contribution came from anyone who lives in Harold White's district. The Lo Jac address is in the district, but this man does not live at the quarry. Odell Binkley's relatives do not live in the county. Neither does Odell, but he is registered to vote at his office building on Central Pike. This owner of the Hermitage dump and half of Central Pike lives in Mt. Juliet. Hoyt Eakes lives in district 15 on a farm between the controversial Cumberland Yacht Marina (yet to be built) and Gaylord along the Cumberland River.

The most troubling contributions come from all of these developers, real estate agents and homebuilders groups. Harold White has just sold out his district to developers for an upcoming term that we hope he will not have an opportunity to participate in.

People who live in Stanford Estates, Cliffdale and along Benson Road better look out because many of these contributors can be directly tied to the Music City Celebration development proposed for the 600 acres in the bend of the Stones River that Harold White swore he would never approve (he has lied many times before). That article appeared in the Tennessean recently. This proposal includes hotels, amusement park, amphitheatre, time-shares, condos, marina and docks, etc.

The traffic generated by such a development would destroy Donelson and Hermitage. White does not care. He has tricked all of his elderly residents into thinking he is a good man who donates money to their senior center. They will not even be able to get to the senior center with the traffic that this project will generate. All of Donelson Pike on the east side will be rezoned commercial and life as you know it in Donelson will cease to exist. Will White remain in Donelson or will he mysteriously disappear into a nice expensive home somewhere else after his term on the council is finished?

The folks along Central Pike will be consumed by high rise medical builings. Residents in Hermitage Hills will have more traffic than they know what to do with when the 280 acre farm behind Hermitage Elementary is developed and all of the traffic is routed through their neighborhood. And folks along McCrory Creek will be flooded with more water and traffic.

Harold White is nothing more than a lobbyist for developers on the taxpayers dime. He sells his services to the highest bidder. On the streets similar jobs are found on Dickerson Road.

Harold White is a fraud and the sorriest excuse for a councilman that ever lived in Nashville. Let's hope that the voters of district 14 will go to the polls and vote him into unemployment. If they allow him to be re-elected they deserve what they get. If he wins the smart people will rent a UHAUL and get the heck out of the county while there is still room on the road to put their car.

Harold White is such a SELLOUT!!

The Men That Harold White Made Richer By Selling Out His Constituents

Here they are!! The men Harold White sold Hermitage constituents out for $2500-well that was over the table.
Eddie Phillips will make millions building the homes that he promises will be built one way, but if you have ever lived in a Phillips house you know otherwise.
Then there are Harold's buddies from Freeman-Webb Investments, Bill Freeman and Jimmy Webb. Stroud Merritt is also pictured. He sold Metro Greenways his property a year after the deal was done. Metro sold Phillips easement for an access into Phillips development.
Pictured left to right-Phillips, Freeman, Merritt, their lobbyist Harold White, Webb and Burns.
Why does Harold have a horseshoe in his hand? Maybe he is looking for more good luck with under the table kick-backs from developers. Notice their are no Ravenwood members here. They were the big losers in this RIP-OFF!

The RAVENWOOD RIP-OFF

The story given to the public was that Ravenwood Country Club in Hermitage was in deep financial trouble. The club needed to sell off some of their land in order to pay their debt. The developer was going to build beautiful homes near the golf course and profits from the sale would save the club.

What really went down behind closed doors many are calling the Ravenwood Rip-Off! Eddie Phillips wanted the land for a development, but there was no access into the land without cutting through the golf course. So Bill Freeman, Jimmy Webb and Kent Burns of Freeman-Webb Investments (all donors to Harold White's 2003 election campaign)paid $487,000 for 90 acres of prime building land from Ravenwood Country Club. FWB owned the PineBrook Apartment complex on Hickory Hill Lane where White convinced the Planning Staff that they could gain access to the property. Harold White then rezoned the property for Freeman-Webb Investments in order to build houses and condos ignoring a petition over 600 residents next door who opposed the rezoning.

Freeman-Webb then sold just 60 acres of the land to Eddie Phillips for $1.9 million. Three men who gave $2500 to Harold White for his campaign just made a profit of $1.5 million.

Ravenwood is still in financial trouble and having trouble paying the bills. Sounds like a dirty deal to many including Ravenwood Club members. Either your board of directors is stupid or they just sold you out. Surely Ravenwood could have paid off their debt with an extra $1.5 million. Wonder what lovely gift Councilman White received from this deal? Harold White, the center of the RAVENWOOD RIP-OFF!!