The Meeker Collection

Political Funnies from the pages of the defunct Wilson County Advocate, a local weekly newspaper that enjoyed a brief but fiercely loyal readership from 1991 until 1993 in Middle Tennessee. This volume contains all of the articles published under the pseudonym "Jimmy Joe Meeker" - the loud-mouthed, often-angry, sometimes-insightful, but always amusing alter-ego of Don Gillette. Founded on a whim, and never taken too seriously (especially by its founders), The Advocate prided itself on exposing the dirty laundry of small-time politicians and railing against the injustice in small-town government.