
Simon had worked with the Republican Governors Association and co-chaired former President Donald Trump’s inaugural committee. For instance, Tennessee received veterinarian gloves instead of medical gloves used for personal protection, and staff also raised questions about the reliability of some of the COVID-19 test kits. Harris connected political operative Tony Simon with Health Commissioner Lisa Piercey, according to reports, and not long afterward, the state inked the deal, even though Health Department staff questioned Nomi’s ability to provide the materials.Īs it turned out, the state paid Nomi $6 million to get out of the contract after getting bogus stuff. Harris, who worked on Lee’s campaign and transition team before becoming chief of staff, was a key player in recommending the state sign a $26 million contract in 2020 with Utah-based Nomi Health for COVID-19 test kits and protective materials. Bill Lee’s former chief of staff, Blake Harris, who ran Leverage Public Strategies while serving in the governor’s cabinet, according to his financial disclosure form with the Ethics Commission. It also could be an effort to deal with political insiders such as Gov. The legislation could be aimed at these sorts of situations. Hodgen Mainda, held a job as a contractor with the Electric Power Board of Chattanooga while he was Commissioner for Commerce and Insurance for Gov. “I think it’s important that they be concentrating on their job, and if they had another business, they could be conflicted in a number of areas when things come up,” McNally said Thursday.įor example, a commissioner of education could have an education consulting business, he said, “and you can see the inherent conflicts there.” (Not that Education Commissioner Penny Schwinn is moonlighting.)īut Hodgen Mainda, who stepped down as commissioner of Commerce and Insurance in November 2020 amid sexual harassment allegations, also held a job as a contractor with the Electric Power Board of Chattanooga for government relations and communications, according to reports.

Randy McNally to improve transparency in state government’s upper echelons. You will need to pay attention to paint schemes and colors, seat binding posts, drop outs, serial number structure, font, and size, welding construction, and other ‘tells’.Gov. This is not as simple as it sounds because nearly all manufacturers made very similar frame styles. While this may seem obvious the first thing to do is to make sure you are looking at a Schwinn frame. After the war all boys 26” tire frames were 18”. In the prewar years Schwinn offered their boys 26” tire models in several different frame sizes (16”, 18”, and the so-called ‘tall frame’ 20”). The juvenile models mimicked the adult models to a large degree. The girls frames were pretty much the same and were differentiated between model lines largely by paint schemes or equipment e.g. This article will not cover either girls or juvenile models. I am not going to try and associate the models to the frames because both straight bar and cantilever frames were used for Autocycle models and trying to explain Motorbike, Cycleplane, Standard, Super Deluxe, etc… gets complicated. Many different models were built on these frames.


Essentially there are three basic styles the straight bar, the DX, and the cantilever frames. This article is not going to cover all the varieties of frames Schwinn built through the years of which there are many.
