David Gerregano, right, Tennessee revenue commissioner, runs in his personal capacity a fraud using the Eye of Sauron EIVS system to revoke people’s tags apart from any law. (Photo Tennessee CPAs)
CHATTANOOGA, Tenn, Friday, Oct. 25, 2024 — Radio investigative reporter David Tulis is suing Tennessee revenue commissioner in federal court in an attempt to overturn the departmental policy behind mandatory motor vehicle insurance.
David Tulis is reporter for Eagle Radio Network in Chattanooga.
Tennessee is a mandatory insurance state for all users of the road because of a departmental policy that took effect Jan. 1, 2017, with creation of an automated data utility called EIVS that Tulis likens to “The Eye of Sauron.”
“Mandatory insurance is not law in Tennessee,” says the “Tulis Report” principal. “David Gerregano is running a shakedown serving for-profit insurance companies.” The Soddy-Daisy man says insurers get $2 billion a year in “free premiums” they wouldn’t get if not for the department of revenue’s mandatory insurance project.
“To help their friends, our oligarchs on the public payroll figure they can give a little help to their financial industry friends, but with one small cost they overlook, no doubt in good conscience. And that’s the harm to more than 1 million people too poor to buy insurance. These folks are the lonely figures you see on the side of the road after the cops have had their vehicles towed for ‘no insurance.’ The harm to these tens of thousands of innocent people is just the cost of doing business — collateral damage, you could say, no big deal.”
Tulis, 13 years in radio reporting and 24 years at Chattanooga Times Free Press as a newspaper copy editor, is suing the state and Gerregano in his personal capacity.
The complaint lists demands starting with closure of the “Eye of Sauron” program, halt of 12,000 dunning notices sent out weekly by the department, a shakeup of procedures, mass restitution and expungement for people falsely convicted under the policy.
Over an eight-year period, 326,656 people, or an average of 40,832 people a year, were convicted for “no insurance,” Tulis says, with “tens of thousands of follow-after cases of ‘driving on revoked’ and ‘driving on suspended,’ which shows how the cancer of official oppression metastasizes across the police and judicial landscape.”
“A vast majority of these police victims are not liable for any duty under the law,” Tulis says, not having had the triggering event of a qualifying accident. “Officials involved in these breaches of law deserve God’s wrath and curse for how they’ve abused the defenseless and poor.”
Insurance is mandatory for people whose license or tag is suspended but who retain the driving and operating privilege on condition of getting — and keeping — certified SR-22 insurance up to five years, Tulis says. “The ‘Eye of Sauron’ is supposed to monitor only these folks. It’s not to be used to send stinger revocation notices to good, safe drivers not under the law,” Tulis says.
