NIkwasi Plaintgiffs Request Injunction to be Dismissed

PRESS RELEASE
May 20, 2019

Our legal counsel advises that many months of discovery and exorbitant expense will be required for us to continue our legal case at this time against the Franklin Town Council regarding their giveaway of the Nikwasi Mound on May 6, 2019, complicated by the Council’s alleged entanglements with several private corporations and the sovereign Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians.

We have therefore requested that our Injunction be “Dismissed Without Prejudice” by the Court, giving us the option to renew legal action in the future as we discover more information about the Town Council’s transfer of ownership of the public government-owned Nikwasi Mound to the private non-governmental Nikwasi Initiative Inc.

We also need more time to research the convoluted and questionable relationships among Nikwasi Initiative Inc, Mainspring Inc, Catalpa Partners Inc, Women’s History Trail, and the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians who all claim to have legal interest in the mound through alleged partnerships with the Town Council and each other.

We appreciate the outpouring of citizen support for our efforts up to this point in trying to prevent privatization of the mound, and we encourage you to remain diligent in oversight of future actions of our local government officials, both municipal and county, both elected and employed, to ensure their legal and ethical duty to represent the citizens of Franklin and Macon County rather than their own opportunistic undertakings.

We also encourage you to join us during the upcoming elections in working toward the removal of the six Franklin Town Council members who have betrayed the trust of Franklin voters and Macon County citizens in this matter, four of whom can be unseated in 2019 and two in 2021.

Remember that we get the quality of government we vote for, and our citizen responsibility begins at the polls. We deserve better and more transparent government than we have been served in the matter of the Nikwasi Mound, and we must stay alert in knowing our elected officials and their intentions if we are to embrace a more open government of the people, by the people, and for the people.

With great respect for the Citizens of Franklin and Macon County,

Gloria Raby Owenby
Betty Cloer Wallace
Mary Ruth Byrd
Edgar Burton “Bud” Shope
Judith B. Dowdle

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published at 1:04pm on Monday, May 20, 2019

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