William Daniels is next up and from what we can tell he enjoyed being “Knox­i­fied”. Mr. Daniels is run­ning for Knox County Com­mis­sioner in Dis­trict 4 Seat A.

1. Intro­duce your­self to Knoxville, who are you, and why are you running?

Willam DanielsHello Knox County,

I’m William Daniels a 47 year-old father of two girls, Madi­son 9 and EmmaLee 7 (they attend Rocky Hill Ele­men­tary School). I’ve been mar­ried to my beau­ti­ful wife Becky for 20 years this April.

We all are well aware of the raw emo­tions that have been cre­ated by the Sun­shine Law vio­la­tions of the Knox County Com­mis­sion. This has cre­ated an unfor­tu­nate sit­u­a­tion, but I believe we can be bet­ter for these devel­op­ments. Knox County cit­i­zens have an oppor­tu­nity to take their gov­ern­ment back, to be involved and to make Knox County an even bet­ter place to live. I encour­age you to vote and to encour­age your friends and fam­ily to vote. If they’re not reg­is­tered, please assist them to get reg­is­tered. This will be the most impor­tant elec­tion in the last 25 years for our com­mu­nity. It is imper­a­tive that the suc­cess­ful can­di­date have a strong eth­i­cal back­ground, with­out skele­tons in their closet, they should have lead­er­ship abil­i­ties gained from pro­gress­ing upward in busi­ness man­age­ment, not from being appointed to posi­tions.

I am seek­ing the Repub­li­can nom­i­na­tion for the 4th Dis­trict County Com­mis­sion Seat A. The 4th Dis­trict seats are going to have sev­eral peo­ple run­ning in each race. It is imper­a­tive that the vot­ers know the can­di­dates before they enter the polls. Thank you for the oppor­tu­nity to share my cre­den­tials with you.

My edu­ca­tion includes an MBA degree and two under­grad­u­ate busi­ness degrees, one in Mar­ket­ing and one in Account­ing. How­ever, my great­est edu­ca­tion expe­ri­ences have come from actu­ally putting my edu­ca­tion to work in busi­ness.

I’ve had the oppor­tu­nity to gain some great busi­ness expe­ri­ence with com­pa­nies like TVA, West­ing­house, Entergy, Amer­i­can Elec­tric Power, and I cur­rently own Covenant Enter­prises, Inc., Covenant Refresh­ment, Inc. and I’m a licensed Real­tor with Cold­well Banker Wal­lace and Wal­lace. I’ve had as many as 250 employ­ees under my direc­tion and suc­cess­fully man­aged mil­lions of dol­lars. I have imple­mented cost con­trol mea­sures which saved mil­lions of dol­lars for the com­pa­nies in which I worked. I was the exec­u­tive in charge for the devel­op­ment and suc­cess­ful launch of an inter­na­tional soft­ware imple­men­ta­tion, on time and on bud­get. I’ve taken the pre­vi­ous cus­tomer sat­is­fac­tion scores of 56% “SATISFIED”, help change the cri­te­ria to “CUSTOMER DELIGHT” and raised the scores to 92.9% in 16 months of my tak­ing over that divi­sion. I strive to do every­thing with “excel­lence”. We need and deserve the same ded­i­ca­tion in Knox County gov­ern­ment!

Giv­ing back to my com­mu­nity is a vital part of my life and some­thing that my wife Becky and I have taught our chil­dren. I’m a Dea­con, a mem­ber of the Gideons Inter­na­tional and Pow­ell Lodge, I have served as a Board Mem­ber for The Boys Club, Junior Achieve­ment, Habi­tat for Human­ity, Jaycees, Mus­cu­lar Dys­tro­phy Asso­ci­a­tion, Amer­i­can Heart Asso­ci­a­tion, Cham­ber of Com­merce and as a vol­un­teer at Rocky Hill Ele­men­tary School. I’ve also coached bas­ket­ball, soft­ball, and soc­cer. I also serve as the Repub­li­can Precinct Chair­man for Blue­grass.

Together we can make Knox County the com­mu­nity we all desire it to be and it starts now with this elec­tion. I hope you will give me the oppor­tu­nity to serve you. Your vote and sup­port would be greatly appre­ci­ated! If you have any ques­tions or com­ments or would like to be involved in this cam­paign, please call me. Thank you for your time and con­sid­er­a­tion.

Sin­cerely,

William Daniels

web­site: www.williamdaniels.us

2. We think it’s bet­ter know­ing what not to do rather than hav­ing an exten­sive plan. What areas or inter­ests would ben­e­fit Knox County not to ven­ture into?

Bran­don and Casey, ask­ing what we shouldn’t be involved in as a County is an inter­est­ing angle.

Every­day some­one in Knox County has a new “want,” some­thing they think is the next “great thing.” This only requires two things.….time and money. County time and our money. I believe we have got to be great stew­ards of what we are entrusted with by the tax­pay­ers. I think we should hold the spend­ing of tax­pay­ers dol­lars to a very high stan­dard. We shouldn’t be involved in any­thing that doesn’t give the peo­ple a GREAT RETURN on their tax dol­lar. If a pro­gram doesn’t work then fix it or remove it! If a process is inef­fi­cient, make it efficient!

3. What 5 things could you not live without?

The 5 things I can’t live with­out are:

A) My Lord and Sav­ior Jesus Christ and The Bible
B) The love of my life, my wife Becky. Not only is she beau­ti­ful on the out­side, but equally gor­geous on the inside and a great cook!
C) My daugh­ters, Madi­son and EmmaLee. They are kind and sweet and give won­der­ful but­ter­fly kisses.
D) My church
E) Chocolate!