Herenton and Aviotti Party Fund
First of all, you don’t have money for anything sent to your personal residence. Pete Aviotti it seems was just downright negligent in having any money sent to his midtown home. That is a big no no. As a matter of fact, I am surprised that hasn’t come up before now as a red flag. Maybe it has and that is what started this spin-off investigation. It almost appears as if Aviotti was enjoying the spoils of being in the “Teflon Loop”. It seems that if he was so bold as to have $1000 checks mailed to his home, that he has developed a school of thought that he and the Herenton administration is beyond reproach.
Mr. Aviotti it seems is in the know, or very well should be about all of the goings on that happen in the Herenton camp, and should know better than to be a part of it. Apparently, he seems to do whatever he is asked to do and feels as if Herenton has been untouchable so far, and it looks like they would make it to the end of his last term as Mayor. I honestly think the focus will turn to Aviotti in the very near future. One thing that you don’t do is lie to a federal grand jury. I hope that Mr. Aviotti knows this.
Everybody knows what is going on, but nobody has had the guts to do anything. In the past, you were labeled a racist and could be ruined by speaking out about the blatant misdeeds of Herenton, but now it seems the tide has turned. Things have gotten too “in your face” for most people here in Memphis. I have to give it to Herenton in that he positioned the playing field with a rhetoric that invoked a fear of being labeled a racist, or “Hater”, if you will. He did this from the very onset in his speeches and comments about the whites in Memphis. You left a speech or rally asking yourself, “did he just say what I think he said”? He did this from the very first day.
But even though I give props to Herenton, I still have to give it all up to the Feds here in Memphis for going all the way with their investigation and not being scared to ask the tough questions that need to be asked.
I have to wonder when that turning point happened, and ask myself, when did that magic moment happen? When did Herenton go too far and the word got out? Who finally dropped dime on “Shine”?
