{"id":105,"date":"2013-04-01T00:46:21","date_gmt":"2013-04-01T04:46:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chattanoogabystander.com\/?p=105"},"modified":"2013-04-01T00:46:21","modified_gmt":"2013-04-01T04:46:21","slug":"mystery-man-don-bigfield-chides-mayor-elect-andy-berke-at-public-forum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chattanoogabystander.com\/2013\/04\/01\/mystery-man-don-bigfield-chides-mayor-elect-andy-berke-at-public-forum\/","title":{"rendered":"Mystery man Don Bigfield chides Mayor-Elect Andy Berke at public forum"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<figure id=\"attachment_106\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-106\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/chattanoogabystander.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/Chattanooga_Mayor_Ron_Littlefield.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-106\" alt=\"Outgoing Mayor Ron Littlefield, who was not in attendance at the public forum\" src=\"http:\/\/chattanoogabystander.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/Chattanooga_Mayor_Ron_Littlefield-300x220.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"220\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-106\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Outgoing Mayor Ron Littlefield, who was not in attendance at the public forum<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>At a public forum hosted by Mayor-Elect and former 10th District State Senator Andy Berke regarding issues including economic development, public safety and education, a mysterious man by the name of Don Bigfield spouted harsh criticism for Berke, well before Berke&#8217;s inauguration date of April 15.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>Five minutes into the forum, Bigfield, who wore a wig with long, black dreadlocks and over-sized Harry Potter-style glasses, blurted out, &#8220;So far, I haven&#8217;t heard one word about property taxes and storm water fees. How are you going to ensure that they aren&#8217;t too low?&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>Holding a fingerstache to his upper lip, Bigfield loudly asked, &#8220;Why have you not developed a plan to establish an official Ron Littlefield Day yet?&#8221; referring to Chattanooga&#8217;s current mayor, who was not in attendance.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>&#8220;Now there&#8217;s a good man,&#8221; Bigfield continued. &#8220;He sent me a Christmas card.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>After commenting that Chattanooga&#8217;s top priority is establishing a centralized resource center for homeless people, Bigfield pointed at Berke and said, with spittle flying from his lips, &#8220;You better get your act together, or people will try to recall you.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Bigfield then pulled his cape over his face, threw a smoke bomb onto the ground, and disappeared.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At a public forum hosted by Mayor-Elect and former 10th District State Senator Andy Berke regarding issues including economic development, public safety and education, a mysterious man by the name of Don Bigfield spouted harsh criticism for Berke, well before Berke&#8217;s inauguration date of April 15. Five minutes into the forum, Bigfield, who wore a wig with long, black dreadlocks and over-sized Harry Potter-style glasses, blurted out, &#8220;So far, I haven&#8217;t heard one word about property taxes and storm water fees. How are you going to ensure that they aren&#8217;t too low?&#8221; Holding a fingerstache to his upper lip, Bigfield<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":106,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chattanoogabystander.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chattanoogabystander.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chattanoogabystander.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chattanoogabystander.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chattanoogabystander.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=105"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/chattanoogabystander.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chattanoogabystander.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/106"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chattanoogabystander.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=105"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chattanoogabystander.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=105"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chattanoogabystander.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=105"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}