Are They All the Same to Rex?

I'm going to have to watch the tape of last week's Metro Council debate on the Bellevue TIF--which devolved into incremental suck-ups--again, because the Southcomm snoop dog fingered CM Erica Gilmore as one of guilty parties shamelessly lobbying for TIF funds for development. I'm certain that I would have remembered CM Gilmore, since she is, after all, my representative.

Rex calls out three I do distinctly remember: Sam Coleman, Robert Duvall, and Buddy Baker. The only other CM that I recall lobbying for subsidies for her developers was Pam Murray, whom Rex omits. Rex may be confused by the fact that both CM Gilmore and CM Murray are African American women from north Nashville districts, even though both have very different backgrounds and records on the Council.

It would be one thing for the casual observer to confuse Gilmore and Murray, but for a paper that claims exhaustive coverage to make the mistake is embarrassing. Rex increases the confusion with a rhetorical question that references part of Murray's district but omits any part of Gilmore's:

If Bellevue Mall is blighted and deserves such a favorable tax break deal for a private developer, then what about Nolensville Road or Dickerson Road or the Hickory Hollow Mall area?

Rex is conveniently anonymous, but one can easily surmise that its contributors on council development matters are at least reporter Nate Rau and probably editor Clint Brewer and development chatterhead Richard Lawson.


UPDATE: The online edition has been corrected.