Bugg Stories vol. 7

for for on a muggy july afternoon maria philip and his teenage son so when they need to install a shower into a waste meat home village makes his living through his home improvement company the more walking native and one time army staff sergeant says he came to nashville twenty years ago the manager hotel he stayed and started his own business because of the prickly people any opportunity nationals place to be because anybody that wants to work initial can work and there's enough opportunity that if you work hard out there were you think you're starting there's room for advancement there really is is a town of incredible potential unfortunately it's also taught that as ben white sections disenfranchised and pitted against one another what concerns were refilled most is how nashville's change in his twenty years here on his campaign website on his campaign phone line decries what he sees as national becoming another atlanta he defines that as a city where people come to work so they can afford to live somewhere else he points out that since nineteen ninety national has grown by five percent all the surrounding

counties have grown by more than thirty percent of their brightest became mayor of the rule was if you work for the city you had to live in the city because they could attack to retain enough qualified workers to change their role will now says that city workers could live anywhere and fully thirty to thirty five percent of our city workers have left the county no longer live in the city and i would expect that's a tip of the iceberg i think that's happening all reports i concern is if we allow that trend to continue what will simply become is a community of writers are mostly apartments and old people and poor people and if you look at those kind of people they are the ones that need the most city services which cost the most money and they are least able to pay for obviously that's not a trend we can continue widely natural people want more lamb philip says something he can change as mayor but they're also looking for a better school system which marie phillips says he can deliver pay good teachers more pay than doubled to go into low achieving schools and shine a spotlight on problem areas showing that spotlight he says all work on all issues everybody knows crimes an issue well i

guess also for say the crime went down members and start paying attention to it the far nobody knew it in america's needle at the little things happen all the sun i'm your start paying attention and crime rate but critically the murder rate is down by fifty percent i did say this it will take me six years to figure out the kinds of brahmin up attention to what i knew to pay attention to all those issues from day one and that will take resources amerigo a promise it's absolutely no property tax increases he did say he will raise revenue their organizations in this community that organized to avoid taxes by being not for profits and i'm not talking about religious organizations but there are lots of all that compete directly with tax paying business says there's simply not paying a fair share of vanderbilt university's just vegas amusing in his example or not nothing is vanderbilt university with my kids all went there i think it's a great institution a good neighbor anything good you wanna say about their just see they're not paying their fair share they owe us my guest is based on number employee comparing them to gay lord they'll just over twelve thousand and pay nothing gaylord at

it was at five hundred workday nine point seven million dna is a bad apple is underpaying the skinny about thirteen an athlete darcy with their perspective that's more than the last tax rates and i just ended up there are all sorts of organizations out there now i make time we get into this and he says well what about well ok there are lots of gray areas what about what we need to start saying ok clearly this party organization is for profit philip doesn't shy away from speaking his mind he's known for bridge only sparring with the law school board members particularly over the school desegregation plan which he fought single handedly in court and he is a constant critic of the deal to lure dell computer corporation to nashville you know complains that local media always use pejorative terms when speaking of him brash bull headed bombastic all the while his voice rises i don't hear well to cancel have no idea how loudly so it's much easier when i wanna while working with the person i could try to get you know it just

yet we moved back to the messengers the message you know maybe i have an obligation or mof what they achieve an obligation here so deal with the message in so no matter what happens philp says he has no regrets i am he says the guy that picks up the rock to see what's underneath that and that's a trait not likely to change with the results of the august fifth primary for national public radio and that people don't think that people don't think that people don't think that people don't think so asher that's bad king