When this community challenged Jenna R. Amacher about her residency last year, we all knew there would be accusations and gibberish thrown out of her mouth. We heard it the second it was first brought up because how dare we, the voting public, question where she, an elected official representing the town where she is supposed to reside, lives?
So, we called her out on it with an ouster petition through the judicial system because, finally, this community had heard enough diversion and Gish gallop to understand that there was something deeply flawed about her so-called residence within the city limits. She tried to plant good quotes in the newspaper. She tried attacking the messenger, saying it was motivated by her supposed conservative politics and she, again and again, tried to cite legal arguments that did not answer the very simple and straightforward question: “Ms. Amacher, where do you live?”
Wouldn’t it be convenient if the grumbling and anger about Tullahoma’s current board were actually connected to political affiliation? It sure would be nice if it were possible to funnel and blame every comment and concern generated within the community about her, and this board, to a difference of ideology instead of what it really is: a reaction to competence and the intentions of a few disgruntled individuals currently occupying those chairs.
That would solve everything, wouldn’t it? It would be an easy answer—quick to be put into a box of long-standing grievances—and make any further actions on the part of this board legitimate in some way because they would be innocently reacting based on “political conviction” instead of throwing a temper tantrum like a 10-year-old.
But, it’s never that easy when you’re being gaslit. Gaslighting is a sublime artform that reflects the black rot in the souls of its practitioners. Gish gallop, the in-person version of gaslighting, is used as a method of debate because it starts out with the idea that you can overwhelm your opponents with so much factually challenged information at once that it then becomes impossible to refute; a wave of white noise, thereby making the practitioner appear strong and wise, a victim of the machine in obscure ways that, without a proper analysis, appear to be the truth we’re always seeking as human beings.
But the truth is buried beneath a wasteland of word salads and trigger words meant to stimulate your brain in another direction entirely. And you know what? It works.
Now that the ouster trial is complete (denied by a sympathetic judge), we know that the question was valid and that she has been gaslighting and lying to the community since 2021 when Amacher’s residency was first questioned. The court trial and the district attorney proved that she does not live in the city limits of Tullahoma with such force that the judge had to mention it in his written ruling. ATTACHED HERE.
So we’re left with egregious lies from Jenna R. Amacher before, during and after the trial. None of the claims of residency hold up in court, and a judge affirmed that she actually lives in Franklin County.
Maybe the judge doesn’t mind being lied to, but we do. There must be accountability within the government of Tullahoma or we’re all lost. If someone is willing to lie about a simple question like this, what else are they lying about?