06/08/2026
Wilson county Republican leadership has consistently wasted YOUR money by doing stupid s**t that gets the county sued, racism lawsuits, sexisim lawsuits and significantly more.
In addition to these lawsuits, we have seen grown men who work within our county and/or school board expose themselves in public, get DUI's and even one of their Faith. Family. Freedom. "alpha males" got a DUI, IN HIS SERVICE VEHICLE WITH HIS SERVICE WEAPON.
This article below is once again, another example of pathetic leadership.
One of my opponents, Jeremy Hobbs is Fire Chief for WEMA. WEMA is Wilson County Emergency Management Agency, they handle fire, EMS, emergency communications, etc.
One of Mr. Hobbs firemen, Colton Young, who just so happens to be the President of the Wilson County Professional Fire Fighters Association came forward about understaffing within WEMA. His claim was that our engines were running with HALF the firefighters required per engine.
During a public Wilson county WEMA meeting, Mr. Young simply proposed adding staff in order to improve the ability to pull someone out of a fire.
While Mr. Hobbs did agree with Mr. Young at the meeting and stated, "we have been gambling a long time." Do you think he followed through and fought for more staff?
No, of course not. Shortly after Mr. Young was informed he was under review for "disrespectful behavior" with no further details. Within weeks of that notice he was fired.
Unsurprisingly, Wilson county, Jeremy Hobbs and WEMA Director, Joey Cooper are being sued.
Congratulations Mr. Hobbs, you got Wilson county slapped with another lawsuit!
I constantly hear, "my taxes shouldn't pay for this or they shouldn't pay for that." Let me ask you, the Wilson county voter. Are you excited to pay for yet another lawsuit because our Republican leadership is so incompetent?
I'll shoot this straight, we have 25 Republicans filling 25 commission seats, if you have an issue with anything in our county....the finger of blame can only be pointed in one direction and that's to the neglectful individuals in charge.
To be slightly more frank, where I come from, we don't down play Mr. Hobbs actions in firing a whistle blower for looking out for you and I, we call it like it is.
This firing was the action of a coward. He couldn't handle being publicly called out. This fire chief fumbled the ball over and over, as he said "gambling" with our lives.
He chose a route of cowardice instead of leadership...just as he did with the school board vote earlier this year when he took a threat from Brad Lytle. leader of the Wilson County Republican party. Lytle threatened him with being primaried if he didn't vote as told.
In that situation, once again Jeremy took the route of a coward and changed his vote. We need folks in office who can think for themselves to represent their constituents, not follow orders.
Wilson county voters, this is a story of why we have a 3 way race in district 13. The incumbent took the route of a coward and my other opponent Luke Miers was not allowed on the Republican primary.
I ask for your vote tomorrow, if I'm not your candidate of choice, that's okay and I respect your decision. What I do ask is to at least look into Luke before casting a ballot for the incumbent.
A Wilson County firefighter came to News 2 last year because he was concerned for his community, but when he blew the whistle, he said he was fired. Now, he’s suing the county.
