Over at WPLN, Emily Siner has a good story noting that disclosures detailing candidates' investments and sources of income were due this week and reporting that the state agency collecting these statements seems to be missing some teeth:

But the Tennessee Ethics Commission, which collects about 14,000 statements of interest each year, doesn’t have the authority to audit the reports, says director Drew Rawlins. It can only penalize people if someone else alleges their information is wrong. Rawlins says this happens several times a year, but most of the transgressions are "relatively minor."





We've been perusing the disclosures ourselves this morning. We should make our own disclosure here, as we have before: You'll see this company's name on two of the disclosures — Carrington Fox and Bruce Barry (spouses to David Fox and Megan Barry) are both longtime Scene contributors. While we're disclosing, Jeremy Kane's wife, Tracy Kane, an attorney at Dodson Parker Behm & Capparella, is legal counsel to the Scene's parent company SouthComm.

Here's what else you'll find (links are to PDFs of each candidate's disclosure):

Bill Freeman: As Siner notes, Freeman has investments in 45 companies. Among them is Harpeth Financial Services LLC, the holding company behind Advance Financial, Nashville's largest payday lending operation. (Bobby Allyn's 2013 Tennessean story on Advance provides good background on the company, and the debate surrounding payday lenders.)

Also on Freeman's list of investments? The Gundown, a 2011 western on which he is credited as a co-executive producer. Here's a trailer.

Linda Eskind Rebrovick: Rebrovick's list of investments is largely made up of various funds, real estate, and companies where she has worked liked Consensus Point and Pinnacle. But remember the Nashville Area ETF, the fund that allowed people — like Nashville Resident Ralph Schulz! — to invest in publicly traded companies based in Nashville? Rebrovick is an investor in that too.



David Fox: What does the Fox say? Buy stock! Fox's list of investments includes Bank of America, Wal Mart, and Microsoft, with Apple, McDonalds, and Kraft Food Group listed as investments held by his spouse. The Fox's are also invested in Nelson's Greenbrier, the distillery behind Belle Meade Bourbon. (As we noted above, Carrington Fox is a longtime contributor to the Scene, so that's listed as a source of income as well.)

Megan Barry: Barry's disclosure shows her husband's sources of income, including the Scene (see disclosure above) and Vanderbilt. As for the Barry's investments, the list consists of pension plans, a 401k, and an investment fund.

Jeremy Kane: Along with income from Kane's spouse — see disclosure above — his disclosure lists investments in a 401k, a 403(b), and a college savings program.



As of this writing, Howard Gentry and Charles Robert Bone had not filed statements of interest for their mayoral candidacies (or, at least, they weren't available online). Gentry filed a statement in January as Criminal Court Clerk, which listed no sources of income and no investments. When their disclosures come in, we'll update this post. In the meantime, if anything on these lists jumps out at you, let us know

Update (1:20 p.m.):

Charles Robert Bone's disclosure statement is now available. It shows his law work and some real estate as sources of income, along with some investments and Southern Kitchen Nashville, LLC — the company behind The Southern Steak and Oyster. His investments include some stocks (Apple, Intel), some real estate, and another restaurant investment that got some attention recently — Acme Feed and Seed.

