IMMEDIATE RELEASE — David Tulis (423) 544-2285 davidtuliseditor@gmail.com
CHATTANOOGA, Tenn., Monday, Nov. 3, 2025 — A radio journalist is demanding a Hamilton County judge hear Tennessee’s tax boss explain how his department’s universal mandatory auto insurance program isn’t a fraud, as alleged in a lawsuit brought on behalf of his listeners.
Revenue commissioner David Gerregano is in court Friday to defy a temporary injunction to halt what Eagle Radio Network reporter David Tulis calls “the Eye of Sauron,” saying it would be bad for the public, create unsafe conditions and make for uneven enforcement of mandatory auto insurance under color of the Tennessee financial responsibility law of 1977, or TFRL.
The hearing is Nov. 7, 1:30 p.m., before Circuit Court, division 1, Judge J.B. Bennett at 625 Georgia Ave. downtown.
Tulis has kept eight state government attorneys busy in any of three lawsuits to halt a program he says is “a rogue state-based surveillance eyeball” that “destroys the poor by revoking their tags in cities and counties where police target private travel as criminal activity, leaving the poor mom with the kids and their plastic sacks of Wal-Mart groceries on the curb as the cop gets their car towed.” The program, he says, “targets a million poor people in Tennessee who cannot afford auto insurance and whose tag is revoked because they do not buy non-certified auto policies.”
“The commissioner’s corporate capture program forces the poor to buy insurance they cannot afford to obtain policies that are legally insufficient to be proof of financial responsibility,” says Tulis, who publishes at DavidTulis.substack.com. The program generates 112 convictions a day, according to the department.
The electronic insurance verification system, or EIVS, tracks a person’s motor vehicle liability policy that, under agreement with department of safety, is required to be current for the duration of a driver license suspension.
Tulis is asking Circuit court Judge Bennett to decertify EIVS and order a halt to DOR’s 12,000 weekly letters threatening or revoking motor vehicle registration tags of insurance industry noncustomers.
The TFRL says the verification system verifies insurance of the license-suspended driver who buys a unique financial product called a “motor vehicle liability policy,” certified by a widely known form called the SR-22, developed by the industry and accepted as proof of financial responsibility by the department of safety under commissioner Jeff Long.
“I will be arguing for immediate injunction against this degenerate program,” Tulis says. “This program is a perfect picture of corporate capture of government violating 28 laws and nine constitutional provisions. The only person who has to buy insurance is one who’s under suspension. He gets to keep the privilege on condition of buying a unique, radioactive and toxic type insurance policy that insurers are forced to sell — under special certificate — to high-risk and often irresponsible drivers. There is no law requiring a good driver to buy insurance. The court cases say so. The law says so.”
Tulis, who in October 2020 sued Gov. Bill Lee and a local official 878 days to block MRNA jabs and halt the COVID-19 state of emergency, says the case is the second most important one in state history, showing “harm and predation by people under the oath who are supposed to provide honest government services, and yet who’re abusing their offices and destroying our rights with the approval of Gov. Lee and Republicans and Democrats who are happy with 40,832 false criminal convictions a year.”
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