Jeremy Mansfield, Sumner County Commissioner

06/10/2026

Did you know a city council can require larger retention and detention ponds before approving new development?

Time after time, developers submit plans with stormwater systems designed to meet the minimum standard, not necessarily the real-world needs of surrounding neighborhoods. And we are seeing the results: flooded yards, overwhelmed drainage, damaged property, and homeowners left asking why this keeps happening.

Why build to the bare minimum? To squeeze in two more houses? Three more houses? A few more lots on a spreadsheet?

At some point, local government has to stop rubber-stamping minimum-effort development and start asking a simple question: Will this protect the people who already live here? Homeowners are saying no, and they’re saying it loudly.

(White House, TN)

06/09/2026

Setting the Record Straight: The Truth About the Historic Latimer Home at The William and Martha Brown Park

News Channel 2 ran a story ( https://tinyurl.com/2fz6r33m ) on the delays surrounding the Historic Latimer (Brown) Home, and County Mayor John Isbell and Director of Schools Scott Langford were each given space to respond. Let's set the record straight about this story, because it is quite the whopper, filled with partially accurate information presented in a grossly inaccurate manner. What these officials told the news does not match the record. So here is the truth, plainly, for the hardworking taxpayers of Sumner County who are owed it.

Make no mistake. This campus has sat at the center of repeated misrepresentations, political gamesmanship, obfuscation, backroom deals, and the mishandling of money that was never theirs to redirect. Here is the documented reality.

1. $500,000 left by Mr. Brown for the home was wrongfully diverted. That money was given for one purpose, the historic preservation of the home. Instead, it was wrongfully taken and commingled with other funds, where it lawfully was never supposed to be.

2. The home's own money was then leveraged to fund a park that EXCLUDED the home. That same $500,000 intended for the Historic Brown (Latimer) Home was combined with $125,000 in taxpayer money to secure a $625,000 state grant for what has been branded a "Legacy Park." This was not simply a bait and switch. The grant's own documentation drew a boundary line around the historic home to exclude it, guaranteeing that not one dollar of that funding could ever be used to restore or preserve the very structure Mr. Brown's gift was meant for. Their own application drew the line. The intent is not a matter of opinion when it is written into the document.

3. This was never about preserving history. The money was meant for the home, not a park, and the paperwork shows they understood that. Today the real cost of this "legacy" would exceed $2 million, and still not one dollar has gone toward restoring the historic home.

For two years, Scott Langford and John Isbell misled the public and blocked the rightful return of these funds to the County. The County did not get the money back until late spring of 2025. And for over a year since, Mayor Isbell and Director Langford have worked behind the scenes, with cooperating commissioners and county employees, to obfuscate this project as much as possible and stall it as long as possible.

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Now to their statements to News Channel 2.

They falsely claim I cost taxpayers a $625,000 grant. Here is the plain truth. They wrongfully confiscated the $500,000 that Mr. Brown left expressly for the home, combined it with $125,000 of your tax money, and used that $625,000 to leverage a matching $625,000 grant from the State. And what did all of it pay for? A park that physically surrounds the home and yet, by its own boundary lines, EXCLUDED the home from the park entirely. Not one dime went to the structure the money was given to save. Returning money that was wrongfully taken from the home is not a loss to taxpayers. It is the correction of a wrong.

They falsely claim I excluded the school board and the commission for four years. That is an outright falsehood, and the record disproves it. As the former Chairman of the General Operations Committee, I formed an ad hoc committee to move this County project forward, and that committee included the school board member who represents the Liberty Creek campus, along with several citizens, among them neighbors of Mr. Brown and direct descendants of Colonel Jonathan Latimer, whose son Charles Latimer built this home. For more than three years I worked alongside those citizens and fellow commissioners to carry out the clear and lawful intent of Mr. Brown's gift, against continuous resistance from the very officials now claiming to be shut out. You do not exclude the school board by giving it a seat at the table. You do not exclude the public by inviting the donor's neighbors and the builder's own descendants into the room.

And the Mayor says he is "merely following the process," still awaiting a background check and a signed contract for a County project (note: this is not a school project). Ask yourself this. Why does a $6,400 piece of exploratory demolition, on county property, by a contractor who already completed work on this very home twice in June of 2025 with no objection, suddenly require hurdles that no other county project faces? When the answer to every solved objection is simply a new objection, that is not process. That is obstruction.

The people of Sumner County are entitled to ask one plain question. The $625,000 grant they maneuvered to secure was drawn, by its own boundary, to EXCLUDE the home. Of the $1.25 million combined that this scheme put in play, not one dollar was ever spent on the home itself. So after nine years, and with the proposed cost of Langford's "legacy" park, excluding the house, now exceeding $2 million, why has not a single dollar reached the very home all of it was supposed to be about?

Here is what you can do. Attend the next General Operations Committee meeting and sign up to speak. Email the full Commission at [email protected] and tell them to stop stalling and let the approved, funded work begin. Watch the meetings yourself and share the truth with your neighbors. Sunlight remains the best disinfectant.

This home predates the State of Tennessee. It has stood for 230 years. It should not be sacrificed to protect anyone's monument or anyone's mistakes.

At your service,
Jeremy

06/09/2026

This is not the first time a sexual predator has been able to gain access to the victim through a school-issued iPad in Sumner County.

WARNING: GRAPHIC CONTENT.
I share because this is a textbook case of grooming and well worth the long read especially for any parent.
Scary stuff.
THIS GUY HELD PARENTS AT GUNPOINT AND ATTEMPTED TO R**E THEIR 12-YEAR-OLD DAUGHTER.
Now he’ll spend the next quarter century behind bars.
The District Attorney in Sumner County, TN secured a 25-year-sentence
for thirty-year-old Omar Malik Lundy.
He was convicted by a Jury of attempted r**e of a child, soliciting a minor to commit r**e of a child, two counts of aggravated assault, and one count of assault.
SO, WHAT HAPPENED?
Prosecutors say Lundy initiated contact with a 12- year-old via YouTube by posting a flattering comment about her under a video she shared on the platform.
After this initial interaction, Lundy and the victim began regularly communicating online and via text.
During all of his communications with the victim, Lundy presented himself to the victim as a 15-year-old juvenile.
As time passed, Lundy began sexually grooming the victim, solicited n**e photos from her, and repeatedly pressured her to meet in person.
The victim eventually relented and provided her home address to Lundy.
Lundy traveled 4 ½ hours from Alabama to Sumner County and snuck into the victim's home in the middle of the night, without her parent's knowledge.
Over the following day, Lundy hid in the victim's bedroom, slept in her closet, and, ultimately, got into bed with her.
When the victim's mother came into the bedroom to check on her later that night, she discovered Lundy's feet hanging out from under her daughter's blanket.
A confrontation involving the victim's family and Lundy then ensued during which Lundy produced a handgun from his waist band and threatened to “shoot" the victim's family members and then "shoot himself.”
A male relative then knocked the gun out of Lundy's hand and the family subdued him until Sumner County Sheriff's Deputies arrived.
During a subsequent search of Lundy's property, deputies discovered knives, electrical tape, numerous gun magazines, and body armor.
Notably, in this case, the victim's parents made every effort to prevent her from accessing social media, severely restricted her access to a cellular phone, and regularly spoke with her about online safety.
Even in the face of these parental restrictions, Lundy was able to maintain contact with the victim through YouTube, which the victim accessed using her school-issued tablet.
This was a shocking case involving a 30-year-old man's prolonged efforts to sexually groom and r**e a child through lies, manipulation, and technology. Even more disturbing is the fact that Lundy was able to gain the victim's trust by convincing her that he was 15 years old, which was half of his actual age.
AWFUL.

06/08/2026

THE $6,400 RUNAROUND:
HOW SUMNER COUNTY'S OLDEST HOME KEEPS GETTING STALLED

A $6,400 estimate should not take two months, a stack of shifting excuses, and repeated intervention from the County Law Director just to set the record straight. But that is exactly what has happened to the restoration of the historic Latimer (Brown) House, and the hardworking taxpayers of Sumner County deserve to know why.

Here is the plain truth. On April 16, 2026, General Operations Committee unanimously approved a small, selective demolition project so the architects could expose concealed structural elements, evaluate existing conditions, and finalize the construction drawings needed to bid out the full restoration of this 1790s log home. The funding is already appropriated. The Commission has already spoken. This is roughly $6,400 of exploratory work on a home that the people's elected body voted to save.

What followed was not progress. It was an obstacle course.

A documented timeline (April 2026 to present):

1. The General Operations Committee unanimously approved the selective demolition and the designated Contractor with an extensive background in historic restorations, including the Bridal House and Bledsoe Fort, among many others.

2. The Contractor met onsite with the architect and the Finance Department’s Project Manager. The scope was identified and agreed upon by everyone in the room.

3. The Budget Committee then voted to move the Finance Department Project Manager position into the County Mayor’s office.

4. The Project Manager altered the agreed-upon scope, removing items discussed at the walkthrough, including exposure of the front porch underside needed to evaluate structural tie-ins.

5. County Mayor John Isbell directed the Project Manager to seek additional quotes, despite the unanimous committee approval, despite the work falling below the County's quote threshold, and despite neither state law nor County procurement policy requiring it.

6. Commissioners pushed back. The Law Director confirmed there were no legal, procedural, or operational impediments. The demand for extra quotes dropped.

7. Next came the claim that the Contractor could not drive equipment onto County property.

8. The Law Director confirmed the County has full authority over its own property. That objection disappeared.

9. Mayor Isbell then asserted that because Wolfpack Way had not been formally accepted into the County road system, no temporary construction access could be established.

10. The Law Director again confirmed the County's authority over its own land and access routes. That objection disappeared, too.

11. The Project Manager again rewrote the scope, this time adding items that the architect never requested.

12. Then came a demand for a background check on the Contractor. This is the same Contractor who already completed work on this very house twice in June of 2025, with no objection and no problem from anyone. Nothing has changed about the man or the work. What changed is that after his initial work, we quickly put a real plan, a budget, and a timeline for completion in place, and that is precisely what County Mayor John Isbell and Director of Schools Scott Langford have spent the better part of two years working to stop. In truth, the effort to block this project goes back more than three years. We were ready to move in June of 2025, and since then we have been handed one roadblock after another, from claims about "riparian buffers," to delays in getting the architectural bids out, to the County Mayor sitting on the architect approval contracts for more than two months before signing them. The background check is simply the newest entry on that list. A background check to work on a public residential structure, in a public park, is yet another way to obfuscate this process.

13. The latest obstacle: a demand for additional commercial licensing, for roughly $6,400 of selective demolition on a 230-year-old historic home.

On that last point, the County's own Director of Codes has indicated that because this is a historic structure serving as the centerpiece of a public park, with limited public occupancy, modern commercial code classifications would not necessarily apply the way they are now being suggested, and the current classification is residential. So, another unnecessary roadblock had to be overcome.

And consider the logic, or the absence of it. This is a public park being built on public property. A public park is open to the public by definition. If a background check is somehow required just for an approved contractor to do exploratory work today, then how does anyone propose to background check the thousands of citizens who will walk that very same ground freely the day the park opens? You cannot. There is no answer to that question, because the demand was never about safety. It falls apart the moment you say it out loud.

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THE BOTTOM LINE

The Commission approved the entirety of the budget. The appropriate Committee approved the work. The funding is appropriated. The Contractor has revised his proposal more than once. The architect has clarified the scope more than once. The Law Director has said plainly that there is no legal impediment. And still, two months after a unanimous vote, not one board has been pulled.

So here is the question every taxpayer is entitled to ask: Is the goal here to move this project forward, or simply to find the next reason to delay it? I think citizens now know the answer to that question.

This is the same pattern that has dogged this home from the start, going back to the $500,000 Mr. Brown left expressly for this home and park, funds that were diverted away from it. It took almost two years of fighting, but we finally forced Mayor Isbell and Director Langford to turn that money back over to this project more than a year ago. Ever since, they have thrown up every roadblock conceivable, and a few inconceivable, to keep the Commission from moving forward with the restoration. It has now been more than nine years since Mr. Brown passed away, and his clearly stated wishes still have not been honored. That is not an accident. It is a choice. And it is being made by people who answer to you.

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WHAT YOU CAN DO

- Attend the next General Operations Committee meeting and sign up to speak. The schedule is posted on the county website.
- Contact the County Mayor's office and ask one simple question: when will the approved, funded $6,400 of work begin?
- Watch the meetings for yourself and share this with your neighbors. Sunlight is the best disinfectant.
- 📧 Email the full Commission at [email protected] and tell them to quit stalling this project.

This home predates the State of Tennessee. It has stood for 230 years. It should not continue to fall to bureaucratic foot-dragging.

At your service, Jeremy

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BACKGROUND OF THIS HOME AND PROPERTY

Latimer House - History Part 1
Background on the Latimer (Brown) House - Video 1
https://youtu.be/PXEjxgWLANs

Latimer House - History Part 2
Background on the Latimer (Brown) House - Video 2
https://youtu.be/l-PuB1effes

Latimer House - Background Part 1
Background on the Latimer (Brown) House - Video 3
https://youtu.be/7-e_GwrQSpg

Latimer House - Background Part 2
Background on the Latimer (Brown) House - Video 4
https://youtu.be/0hQvCANZ0pM

Latimer House - Construction Part 1
Background on the Latimer (Brown) House - Video 5
https://youtu.be/AFh_iU6a1Q8

Latimer House - Construction Part 2
Background on the Latimer (Brown) House - Video 6
https://youtu.be/z4H37Y1_wWw

Latimer House - Construction Part 3
Background on the Latimer (Brown) House - Video 7
https://youtu.be/ddv1Cg71oN8

Latimer House - Construction Part 4
Background on the Latimer (Brown) House - Video 8
https://youtu.be/5Hnjovs8RT0

06/06/2026

On this day in 1944, the free world went ashore at Normandy.

They were young men carrying rifles, packs, fear, courage, and the hopes of civilization on their backs. Many never saw home again. All of them stood against one of history’s most evil regimes and helped save the world from N**i tyranny.

May we never forget what they did, what they endured, and what their sacrifice made possible.

Sumner County remembers. America remembers.

06/04/2026

"California is a Third World country. It is odd to me that you have the home of Silicon Valley, the brightest tech minds on earth, and these people cannot figure out how to count votes in less than three months." ~ The Federalist

06/03/2026

THEY WON'T LET YOU VOTE ON TERM LIMITS, BUT THEY'LL VOTE THEMSELVES A 90% RAISE

Someone on your County Commission wants to nearly double their own pay. On your dime.

A resolution now before the Sumner County Board of Commissioners would raise commissioner pay from $500 a month to $950 a month, effective September 1, 2026. That is a $450 raise every single month. A 90% increase for a part-time elected position.

Let me be clear: serving on this Commission is not a job. It is public service. The hardworking taxpayers of Sumner County did not send anyone to the County Administration Building to pad their own pockets.

Run the numbers. With 24 commissioners, the current $500-a-month pay already costs taxpayers roughly $144,000 a year. At $950 a month, that bill climbs to about $273,600 a year, nearly $130,000 in brand-new spending out of your hard-earned tax dollars, every year, for as long as it stands. And it doesn't stop when one commissioner leaves. It is baked in for every commissioner who follows.

For what? Has the workload doubled? Have your roads, your schools, or your services gotten 90% better? Or has someone simply decided that public service should pay like a part-time paycheck?

And let that hypocrisy sink in. These same politicians have now voted 11 times against simply letting you decide term limits at the ballot box. They're terrified of what the people would say. But they'll line up fast enough to vote themselves a fatter check. They don't want your vote. They want your money.

This is exactly the kind of decision that should never happen quietly. The people deserve to know who is asking for this, why, and how each commissioner votes when it reaches the floor. Profiteering off public service is not leadership.

Here is your call to action. Before this comes up for a vote, make your voice heard, and remind every commissioner who they answer to.

📧 Email the full Commission:
[email protected]
Subject: Vote NO on the 90% Commissioner Pay Raise

🔎 Find your Commissioner:
https://sumnercountytn.gov/government/county-commission/

When elected officials vote on their own pay, the only bank funding it is you.

At your service,
Jeremy

06/02/2026

I’m incredibly honored to be recognized as Sumner County’s Best Elected Official. In a term full of challenges and hard decisions, it’s especially meaningful to receive this kind of encouragement, not from political insiders, special interest groups, or PAC's, but from the hardworking taxpayers I serve.

When I reflect upon my journey in public service, I wouldn't be where I am today without my dear friend and mentor, the late Commissioner Moe Taylor. I am reminded of a verse in the Bible (John 12:24) that says, "Unless a seed falls into the earth and dies, it remains alone; but if it dies, it bears much fruit." Moe, good buddy, you have borne much good fruit. This final one is for you, dear friend.

Thank you all for your continued trust, support, and prayers. I will always remain committed to representing the hardworking taxpayers of Tennessee, not the powerful, and to doing what is right, even when it is not what is easy or popular. As always, I pray that more servant-hearted leaders will rise up and put the public’s interest above their own. “Do nothing out of selfish ambition or vain conceit. Rather, in humility value others above yourselves.” (Philippians 2:3)

06/01/2026

Tennessee got this one right. The Tennessee General Assembly passed HJR 182, signed by Governor Bill Lee on April 9, officially designating June 2026 as Nuclear Family Month. The resolution recognizes the nuclear family as one husband and one wife (Matthew 19:4-6), and their biological, adopted, or fostered children, and affirms a truth that used to be common sense: strong families build strong communities. Before government programs, bureaucracies, and social experiments tried to replace the home, the family was the first institution, the first school, the first safety net, and the first place children learned faith, discipline, responsibility, and love.

“Have you never read that He who created them from the beginning made them male and female, and said, ‘For this reason a man shall leave his father and mother and shall be joined inseparably to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh’? So they are no longer two, but one flesh. Therefore, what God has joined together, let no one separate.” ~ Jesus

05/29/2026

“The more they build, the more the cost of housing goes up.” Mary for Mayor

Why is Gallatin building so many apartments? If you listen to the current administration, they will tell you that we need them to provide affordable housing. They say that the more housing we build, the more the cost will go down. They say that by building more high density, it will be more affordable. Well, that is just not true. The more they build, the more the cost of housing goes up. Gallatin apartments have high-priced rents. Just because these elected officials tell us something, it doesn't make it true. What is really going on? The reality is that out of state apartment developers are coming to Gallatin and building large apartment complexes because they can make money on them. They can cash in on the regional, Middle TN growth and the desire of Nashville's commuters to have somewhere to live that is less expensive than Nashville. The "affordable" or "attainable" housing problem will NOT be fixed by the warp speed rapid high density housing construction we are experiencing in Gallatin. One of the main contributors to this problem is the fact that large corporations are buying up all the inventory and turning them into rentals, thus taking away opportunities for actual people to buy those houses. It's a greed problem. It's about Big Corporate seeing the land as a cash register. Building more as fast as possible will only put more money in the pockets of Corporations who don't live here yet are dictating the housing and quality of life for the people who do live here. They make decisions by how it affects THEIR bottom line, not by what makes a vibrant and appealing community for us. Our current elected officials have sold us out by allowing this to happen. They should be looking out for the best interest of the PEOPLE, not the best interest of Big Corporate's pockets. As Mayor, my first priority will be to look out for the best interest of the PEOPLE. I am asking for your vote in November. You can learn more about me on my website, maryforgallatin.com