How Juvenile Court Clerk Vic Lineweaver Keeps His Job
The Nashville Hispanic Chamber of Commerce held a mixer last night at Coco Loco on Nolensville Road to kick off Hispanic Heritage Month. Vic Lineweaver was there, and his mere presence gave tremendous insight into why the embattled (some say incompetent) juvenile court clerk manages to keep his job. He. Is. Everywhere.
By the time he'd arrived, Lineweaver had already visited at least one other community event. At Coco Loco, he worked the room like a pro, bussed a table of dirty dishes (seriously), quaffed a glass of merlot and Sprite (still serious), and jetted off to yet another community gathering. This is a man who isn’t even up for reelection until 2010.
“You should try and tail me some time,” he told me. “Bet you can’t keep up.”
Maybe not, but Channel 4’s Jeremy Finley could. Last February Finley dropped this gem of a story about Lineweaver. Finley secretly followed Lineweaver around and discovered that the juvenile court clerk was only working at the office about half the time. One day the reporter confronted Lineweaver as he padded to the mailbox in his bathrobe at 2:45 p.m. after he’d just told Finley over the phone that he was “in a meeting.”
This was six months after Lineweaver's arrest on contempt of court charges for his office’s inability to find documents critical to pending juvenile cases.
Still, the thing most interesting to me about Lineweaver last night was that drink. “Sprite and merlot?" I asked. "Vic, that sounds kinda gross.”
“No, it’s good,” he said. “Actually it’s better with Cabernet, but they didn’t have any.”
Comments
Lineweaver is a ridiculous, pompous buffoon in the same league with Algore. The biggest embarrassment on the Nashville political scene.
Posted 09/17/2008 at 07:03:11 AMI am not sure how you can compare an accomplished politician and Nobel prize winner like Al Gore with Vic Lineweaver but that's a real stretch. I don't believe I've ever seen Gore with bloodshot eyes in his housecoat when he was on the clock and I'm certain Gore has never smelled like stale cigarrettes and day old beer when I've run into him at events. Vic Lineweaver continues to keep his job because no one any better steps up to run against him and 2010 won't be any different. When people are faced with the lesser of two evils, they stay home on election day.
Posted 09/17/2008 at 12:45:34 PMSameoldsameold, it's just an excuse to slam Al Gore. It makes no sense and is actually a pretty lame comparison. Certain people feel the need to kick the guy every chance they get. Most Nashvillians aren't embarrassed by Al Gore. He may have lost Tennessee but he won Davidson County pretty handily in '00 and I think the majority is proud of his accomplishments since he lost.
Posted 09/17/2008 at 01:34:55 PM