This RAV4, greatly serving the Tulis family over 300,000 miles, is focus of an injunction action as it faces illegal revocation Dec.27, 2024, at the hand of a rogue corporate capture program run by David Gerregano, commissioner of revenue. (Photo David Tulis)
IMMEDIATE RELEASE — David Tulis (423) 316-2680 davidtuliseditor@gmail.com
CHATTANOOGA, Tenn., Friday, Dec. 20, 2024 — A radio reporter is demanding a judge spare poor Tennesseans from being left shivering on the side of the road after seizure of their cars for “no insurance” under Tennessee department of revenue’s mandatory insurance program.
David Gerregano runs a tax policy that ignores most of the Tennessee financial responsibility act of 1977. (Photo TN department of revenue)
In bid to secure a merry Christmas for thousands of poor people in Tennessee, David Tulis of Eagle Radio Network in Chattanooga has filed a motion for preliminary injunction in U.S. district court demanding halt of the weekly mailing of 12,000 “stinger notices for ‘no insurance.’”
Tulis filed suit in U.S. district court in October demanding revenue commissioner David Gerregano halt what he describes as “The Eye of Sauron” program that is an “illegal stripmining program against the poor in service of the insurance cartel whose CEOs — well, nevermind.”
The 19-page motion and 32-page supporting brief demand that federal magistrate Barbara Holmes halt the automated program of sending inquiry and revocation notices about motor vehicle insurance until Gerregano straightens out the EIVS system to weed out false positives.
“They call the poor ‘unconfirmed,’” Tulis says, “blue light them, cite them, tow their cars. They’re shivering on the side of the road with their Christmas shopping bags in the wet grass by the curb. Kids are crying, baby needs a diaper change. How soon’s their aunt gonna get there?”
Tulis’ “Eye of Sauron” litigation insists that the Tennessee financial responsibility law of 1977 and the 2015 Atwood amendment creating the Electronic Insurance Verification System program is allowed to monitor only a small group of people — not everybody. “These are people with suspended licenses who get back the exercise of the driving privilege only on condition of having financial security or proof of financial responsibility under the TFRL law,” Tulis says.
“Eye of Sauron requires people to buy insurance they cannot afford to obtain policies that aren’t certified,” Tulis says.
His lawsuit says that only certified policies meet the law’s requirements for proof of financial responsibility, and that insurers sell certified policies, called SR-22s, only to suspendees.
“Our state is not a mandatory insurance state. We are free to exercise our rights of travel and communication on the public right away without insurance, if that’s our choice,” says Tulis, who worked 24 years as a Chattanooga Times Free Press copy editor. “This program is a fraud and a terror upon the poor who’re harassed by revocation and criminal charges. By God’s merry grace, my case will prevent as many as 40,800 false criminal convictions in 2025. These people are gangsters. They operate outside the law, apart from the law. They spit on our good Tennessee law.”
Tulis is suing the department and Gerregano officially and personally, demanding $7 million punitive and aggravated damages following administrative notice. He’s demanding a mass restitution and restoration program and comprehensive expungement to unwind tens of thousands of false criminal convictions under the policy for the public benefit.
‘Monstrous innovation affecting millions of citizens’
Amazingly readable motion for injunction
Ungodliness in the details — 29 abrogations of law
David in his nonprofit fighting and mercy ministry thanks for checks sent directly to c/o 10520 Brickhill Lane, Soddy-Daisy, TN 37379. Also, at GiveSendGo
Princely warfare against principalities & powers
Tags are proof tax paid to use my auto as a motor vehicle, meaning as a place of business carrying goods or passengers for hire. (Photo David Tulis)
