Could the ABC Board be considered negligent?

"ABC board, council didn’t spot problems

...Reports from both investigations are harsh.

They describe Alley as ...left unchecked by her board. ...the two reports leave unanswered how she was able to break state regulations, local rules and possibly some laws without consequence.

Could the ABC Board be considered negligent?

Without consequence, that is, until last week, when the Greensboro ABC Board fired her.

...Greensboro ABC board members meet once a month...

...“I think the ABC board has moved forward appropriately and we need to keep going,” said Greensboro City Councilman Robbie Perkins. “By and large the business-side of the ABC board is running fine.”

How is Robbie Perkins' "all is well" statement not a red flag?

Board members are unpaid, but they sometimes travel to industry conferences, typically held at posh resorts.

What perks have ABC Board members received how often?

“The local governments were letting these local ABC boards run wild,” said Rep. Pricey Harrison , a Greensboro Democrat.

Is Pricey implicating Greensboro's City Council?

Is Pricey's statement very different from Robbie's?

...Concerns raised by employees in the two sets of investigations never filtered up to the board...

...In April, state investigators asked the Greensboro ABC Board to put Alley on leave, suggesting her presence at work might hamper the investigation. The board declined...

Could the ABC Board be considered negligent?

...There should be no doubts now what is illegal or unethical, said state Sen. Don Vaughan, a Greensboro Democrat and Councilwoman Nancy Vaughan’s husband."

Mark Binker

Theresa Yon and Maggie Jeffus Edition of "What could the News & Record Editorial Board be thinking?"

"Yon in District 59

Republican Theresa Yon, ...both thoughtful and fiercely independent.

Yon, ...says she is willing to break ranks with her party when her principles dictate.

"She's a conservative and may likely win,
so hopefully she'll advocate for some of the state level spending what we want"?

...she favors providing more resources for the Auditor's Office as a smart investment.

As for education, Yon, a former High Point University professor, proposes that at least 65 cents of every education dollar be spent in the classroom.

...Jeffus, 75...questions the practicality of Yon's "65 percent solution" for school spending...

What is the percentage?

Should the percentage be more than 65?

What is 35% of the money being spent on?

...She supported important Triad initiatives such as the High Point Market and the Joint School of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology.

Does the Editorial Board really, really like the nano?

...Yon favors term limits and has signed a bonded pledge to serve no more than three terms if elected.

She deserves a chance for her first term on Nov. 2."

The Greensboro News & Record Editorial Board

Property and Quarter-cent Sales Tax Math, by Scott Yost and Skip Alston: Did the News & Record Know?

As a rule of thumb,
a 1-cent increase in property tax in Guilford County
raises about $4 million in additional revenue,
and Alston said the estimated $12 million the sales tax
would raise equates to about 3 cents per $100 valuation on the property tax rate.

If the News & Record reports that "county officials" say property taxes need to rise 8 cents
for all the debt the County Commissioners want to borrow,
and 8 cents x $4 million = $32 million to "pay down the bond debt,"
and Guilford County's 2011 budget deficit looks to be about $73 million,
is the electorate not being told about a potential $41 million gap?

$73 million - $32 million = $41 million

$41 million divided by $4 million per 1 cent property tax increase = 10.25 cents

Therefore, he maintains,
a sales tax increase could keep the property tax down by 3 cents,
but that's assuming the commissioners don't just use the additional $12 million
for new spending
and raise property taxes as much as they would have
if the sales tax increase didn't pass.

Is the electorate not being properly informed about the quarter cent ballot measure?

Scott Yost

Could the 8 cent tax increase really be 18.25 cents,
when the rest of Guilford County's budget is taken into account?

Was the Greensboro News & Record aware of this tax discrepancy,
when it endorsed the quarter cent tax increase?

If Guilford County's news industry doesn’t report on the specifics of Guilford County finances,
how can the electorate correctly determine what to vote for?

Could Guilford County face a $73 million budget deficit in 2011/12?

Total Principal and Interest Due 2010/12...................$98,352,299
Total Principal and Interest Due 2010/11....................-$70,850,005
Additional Principal and Interest Outlay.....................= $27,502,294
Minus 2010/11 Fund excess surplus elimination........$36,695,976
Plus additional corrections costs for new jail................$9,000,000

Potential 2011/12 Budget Deficit...................................$73,198,270

Has the Greensboro News & Record, Yes Weekly,
the Rhino and other local media outlets
reported on what may be Guilford County’s 2011/12 Budget Deficit?

If Guilford County, North Carolina spent ~$53,161,224
more than received in tax and other revenues in FY 2009/10,
and plans to spend $36,695,976 more than expected income in FY 2010/11,
does the Greensboro News & Record’s Editorial Board believe the county
should borrow $191,400,000 more in FY 2010/11
and $155,930,000 more in FY 2011/12,
while drawing down $89,857,200 of savings in two years?

Source: Pages 18 and 198, Guilford County adopted FY 2010/11 Budget

"Quarter-cent question", by the Greensboro News & Record Editorial Board and John Hammer: How about not borrowing the money?

"Quarter-cent question

...it's a good idea...

Should the News & Record disclose that Editorial Board Member Robin Saul,
is a Board Member of the (partly publicly funded) Greensboro Partnership,
which gave the Quarter Cent Tax Committee $10,500

whose Action Greensboro gave the Bonds for Schools Committee $70,000?

The tax is needed to help pay debt obligations, approved by county voters, for more than $650 million in bond projects.

How much would taxes not rise if we don't borrow
about $300 of the $650 million that hasn't been borrowed yet?

Those projects include parks, school construction, expansion at GTCC and the new Guilford County jail.

They are all worthy expenditures...

Does Guilford County need to spend $72 million on a high school?

Do schools with flat screen TVs make better students or do teachers and parents?

Should Guilford County tax and borrow for parks
while facing what looks like at least a $73 million 2011 budget deficit?

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...County officials estimate that an 8-cent property tax increase would be required to pay down the bond debt.

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The idea that increasing the sales tax is going to keep property taxes from being raised
is naive at best.

...the Guilford County Board of Commissioners
can spend that $12 million on anything they like...

With six votes they can spend the money to gild their meeting room.

They could buy Bentleys for all the department heads.

They could hire all the ex-commissioners they could find
and pay them exorbitant sums of money,
for jobs that don't now exist in county government.

They can spend it any way they see fit.

John Hammer

It would rise only 5 cents if the sales tax passes.

Where and what are the details of the estimate?

Where is the News & Record's independent analysis
of how much taxes increases would be required?

Has the News & Record reported what the expected 2011 shortfall is expected to be?

Is the Editorial Board aware of how much savings the county is burning through?

...Opponents have criticized the county commissioners for not cutting more spending. But, on the whole, the board has made good-faith efforts to trim budgets. There's only so much cutting they can do before they begin to jeopardize critical services.

Bullshit.

...the quarter-cent increase is a pragmatic, relatively painless way to meet obligations the county will have to address, sooner or later, one way or the other.

How is this statement not patently false,
if it doesn't consider not borrowing the money that hasn't been borrowed yet?

It'll cost us now. But it'll pay in the long run.

Greensboro News & Record Editorial Board

County Commissioner Bruce Davis said he objected to the statement
that the bonds had to be sold.

He said the bonds did not have to be sold,
and he thought the bonds shouldn't be sold until the economy improved.

Why didn't the News & Record Editorial Board mention not borrowing the money?

...Bill Bencini questioned whether the school system
needed to build $400 million worth of schools right now.

Does the News & Record Editorial Board believe we need to borrow the money now?

The bonds don't ever have to be sold,
but the county has 10 years in which to sell the bonds if it chooses to do so.

The bonds passed in 2008, so up until 2018, the county can sell the bonds whenever it likes.

Should the News & Record disclose that Editorial Board Member Robin Saul,
is a Board Member of the (partly publicly funded) Greensboro Partnership,
which gave the Quarter Cent Tax Committee $10,500,
whose Action Greensboro gave the Bonds for Schools Committee $70,000?

If it takes five years for the economy to improve,
then waiting five years should not be a problem.

Should taxes be raised on everyone in Guilford County
so that some kids can attend an outrageously expensive high school?

Is that even fair to all the other students in Guilford County?

...the board could decide to sell all the bonds as soon as possible
and cut spending to cover the increased debt,
or decide not to sell any.

John Hammer
Rhino

Should the News & Record disclose that Editorial Board Member Robin Saul,
is a Board Member of the (partly publicly funded) Greensboro Partnership,
which gave the Quarter Cent Tax Committee $10,500
whose Action Greensboro gave the Bonds for Schools Committee $70,000?

John Blust and Jeffrey Simon Edition of "What could the News & Record Editorial Board be thinking?"

"Blust merits another term in House

Rep. John Blust has been waiting a long time to get a fair hearing on his agenda for budget and ethical reforms in state government.

And if Republicans gain the upper hand, he could get the opportunity that's eluded him since being elected to his first House term in 2000.

In GOP-leaning District 62, he's the odds-on favorite to defeat Libertarian Jeffrey Simon, a first-time candidate who says he offers an alternative to an entrenched incumbent.

Blust is the clear choice. His experience, including one term in the state Senate, gives him a solid grounding in the government process.

[Bruce Davis]...has learned the governmental process...

News & Record Editorial Board

He's gained a well-earned reputation as a vocal, persistent advocate for ethical reform and zero-based, line-item budgeting.

With zero-based budgeting,
every dollar that is available for the business will be allocated to a specific category.

The company will allocate all of the money to different categories
until there is no money left to spend on anything.

This type of budgeting tends to prevent frivolous spending...

Finance Blog

However, he sometimes gets hung up on philosophies, to the detriment of the political give-and-take needed to achieve practical goals.

Like not voting to borrow enough?

Where is the example?

What specific philosophies does he get "hung up" on?

Even if Republicans gain control of the House, he may still have to compromise to advance his worthwhile agenda.

Is Blust the enemy the News & Record Editorial Board knows,
as opposed to someone who may be more against
what the News & Record seems to be for?

What "practical goals" is the News & Record Editorial Board refering to?

Blust also needs to more actively pursue state funding for nuts-and-bolts causes such as nanoscience technology initiatives in Greensboro and High Point's furniture market...

Blust hasn't wanted to bring home enough bacon,
paid for with money borrowed from our children?

...despite the state budget crunch.

Does the News & Record Editorial Board believe it is moral
for our elected officials should do whatever it takes,
"despite the [$3 to 7 billion] state budget crunch"
regardless of the consequences to the neighboring communities in our state?

Whether or not the legislative tide turns in Raleigh, Blust's voice deserves to be heard.

"We don't like him,
his opponent wouldn't serve to keep North Carlolina under Democratic control,
but this is America, and we had to pick someone,
and there arn't any better options,
and we knew he'd read it,
so we might as well try to get some state sponsored nano and furniture money"?

But he must be willing to work more effectively within the system, no matter who's in control."

Anyone get the impression that the Editorial Board can't control John Blust?

The Greensboro News & Record Editorial Board

After publishing Emmett Morphis' mug shot and false accusations, should the Greensboro News & Record report that his name has been cleared?

Cleared
Hogg's Blog

Let's not forget who said or didn't say what on Steve Arnold: Fox, Shaw, Perkins, Alston, Coleman, Cashion and Winstead

"...[Brenda Jones Fox] said the new position should be beneficial to the county.

"Hopefully this will make us a lot more efficient..." Fox added.

...[Billy] Yow...asked Fox: "With the state of the economy, laying people off, is this the right time to fill this position?"

"I think it is," Fox said.

Guilford County Commissioner Kirk Perkins said Arnold had every right to apply for the new job, and he said that, if Arnold does get the job, he had no doubt that would have only happened at the conclusion of a fair hiring process.

...It is true that Arnold would have to go through the same process as any other applicant before the decision of who to hire was made by Fox, one of his closest friends who he's backed doggedly through the years in many political battles.

Alston has said publicly that he backs Fox's decision to fill the position now – saying that having someone in that role could more than pay for the salary by savings in construction costs due to added oversight, and by saving the county money in other ways because it could operate more efficiently. "

Scott Yost
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"Before: Commissioner Carolyn Coleman ...said that while she thought Arnold should have the same right to apply as any other candidate

After: “I think it alleviates a lot of potential problems for county government,” said Commissioner Carolyn Coleman. “Just in terms of what it would look like, I think it’s probably best.”

When Arnold was asked if accepting a job created by one of his employees just as he left office would be unethical, he said he couldn’t answer.

“The argument, at this point, is irrelevant,” he said. “I may or may not decide to apply, and I may or may not make it through the process. No one knows what is going to happen in the future, including me.”

...Commissioner Bruce Davis, who is running for state Senate, declined to comment...

“Now wouldn’t be a good time,” he said...

Commissioners Mike Winstead and Kirk Perkins did not return calls for comment...

Commissioners Chairman Melvin “Skip” Alston and Commissioner Linda Shaw both said Arnold should be allowed to apply and should be chosen if he’s the best candidate.

“How can we say that just because he’s been a commissioner he shouldn’t apply for a job?” Shaw said.

Commissioner Linda Shaw said she trusts the manager to know when a position needs to be filled and to fill it with the best applicant. She said Arnold should be allowed to apply and, if he's the best applicant, he should get the job. "Nobody knows the county better than Steve, I'll tell you that," she said. "He knows everything and everybody."

Commissioner Chairman Melvin "Skip" Alston says he trusts the manager if she says the position is needed. Arnold should be allowed to apply and be judged on his merits, Alston said. His history as a commissioner — and his history with Fox — should not play into the decision.

Cashion said Arnold has the right to apply, but she said Fox needs to consider public perception when filling the job.

“I would think that when the decision is made the public perception will have to be taken into consideration,” Cashion said. “It can’t look like it’s a done deal before there is a deal.” "

Joe Killian

Per Roch, If News & Record weekday circulation has declined by 8,543 in the last 12 months...

8,543 x $150 7 day subscription = somewhere in the neighborhood
of about a $1,281,450 annual revenue loss?

Roch 101

Should the ABC Board Resign?

"The former general manager of the Greensboro ABC system erased surveillance videos, shredded documents, hid files and hectored employees to cover for her as a state investigation focused on her conduct, a private investigator working for the local board found.

How long did the ABC board know what was going on?

Were any board members involved?

If none of the board members were involved,
and the behavior was an historical norm,

and considering Skip Alston is a former ABC board Chairman

who gave a former ABC manager a car with taxpayer money,
could the board be considered negligent,
and accused of not acting in the best interests of Greensboro?

The five-member board that oversees the 16-store liquor monopoly fired Katie Alley last week after reviewing the executive summary of a report by U.S. ISS Agency.

“ISS also found a pattern of deception and untruthfulness by Ms. Alley that complicated and prolonged the investigation,” the report says. “In addition, she used her position to cause other employees to become involved in acts that were inappropriate. While any of the allegations by themselves may not be significant, they show a pattern of petty corruption.”

...Jeff Gray, Alley’s lawyer, has repeatedly said his client denies many of the allegations in both the local board’s report as well as a pair of reports conducted by Alcohol Law Enforcement Agents at the behest of the state ABC Commission.

...“(O)ffice employees described Ms. Alley as becoming increasingly secretive as the ALE investigation progressed. In early February, 2010, employees in the GABC office noticed Ms. Alley spent several days in her office shredding documents,” says the report.

...Gray said Alley also denies other incidents described in the ISS report, such as one in which she and another board employee are described as erasing surveillance tapes.

...But as to other incidents, such as soliciting sporting event tickets, meals, travel accommodations and liquor from companies with which the Greensboro ABC Board does business, the two sets of reports document similar patterns of behavior.

If it's wrong for the ABC manager to accept free tickets,
why is it OK for Greensboro City Council Members?

...As general manager, Alley had the power to determine what liquor was sold throughout Greensboro and led one of the most profitable systems in the state. She reported to a five-member board whose members, until July, made public statements in support of Alley as state ALE agents conducted their investigation and released an initial report.

“We deal with policies,” said board Chairman Jesse “Skip” Warren. “There was nothing that was given to us through our audits or otherwise that something had gone bad ... if there had been, we would have done something about it.”

If board Chairman Warren didn't know, didn't want to know

or did know but did not act,

what should be the consequences?

Gray said that some of the activities construed as attempts by Alley to deceive the board were things board members knew about.

For example, the ISS report details the fact Alley regularly attended industry events and brought a guest. The Greensboro ABC Board paid the registration fee for those guests — sometimes her mother or a friend. Board members reimbursed the agency for such guests, but Alley never did.

So the ABC board knew and did nothing until caught?

...Gray said that Alley had explicit permission from board members who hired her to have the Greensboro ABC pay for such registrations. Gray forwarded an electronic image of a typewritten letter dated Feb. 24, 2003, signed by former board members Barney Brown and Owen Lewis.

“The Board shall pay the registration fee for you and a guest,” the letter says in reference to “travel to business outside the city limits.”

If the board approved unethical behavior,

who should be held responsible?

...In order for Alley’s version of events to be true, many of the people quoted by ISS and state ALE agents must be lying."

Mark Binker

What could the News & Record Editorial Board be thinking?: Don Vaughan and Jeff Hyde Edition, with a little Rhino

"Ousted in 2005 following 14 years on the Greensboro City Council, Don Vaughan, a Democrat, has found a productive political afterlife in Raleigh.

Does the News & Record Editorial Board
believe backing an entrenched incumbent
financed by the real estate industry and out of state PACs
who is the less fiscally conservative, will bring more pork to Greensboro and Guilford,
with money borrowed from our children?

The first-time state senator, a lawyer by trade, earned his spurs during a freshman term that saw him successfully champion a breakthrough animal abuse law. The lobby in Raleigh against such legislation is fierce and well-funded...

How about naming some of the well funded pro-animal abuse special interests,
and how much they gave in contributions to whom?

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Has the News & Record run a story about the immoral funding?

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Vaughan also was an early supporter of the successful push by neighborhood groups to restore the right of protest petitions in Greensboro in zoning disputes. He ultimately sponsored the Senate bill that allowed Greensboro to reclaim a tool citizens in other North Carolina cities already possessed.

I appreciate the stance on Protest Petitions.

Vaughan’s opponent, Republican Jeff Hyde, is making his first run for elective office but helped found a local group, Conservatives for Guilford County. Hyde, 51, who owns a photography business, considers lower taxes for all businesses the best form of incentive. He sees government as an inhibitor, not an enabler for business and job creation.

Vaughan says he helped cut $3 billion from the state budget.

It's hard to know where that cut was because, in the midst of this recession,
Vaughan voted for the state budget that increased spending
and increased the number of state employees.

...According to the North Carolina Constitution, the budget has to be balanced,
which means either the state can increase taxes by $3 billion or cut spending by $3 billion,
or some combination of the two.

I would much rather have someone in Raleigh that wanted to cut spending, and that is Hyde.

Rhino

A number of Hyde’s plainspoken ideas make good sense, especially when it comes to fiscal prudence. But Vaughan has served well in his first term as the District 27 senator and has made a promising beginning in the Senate.

Does the News & Record Editorial Board
believe Don will help retain a Democratic majority in Raleigh
and bring more borrowed money home, at our children's expense?

His solid accomplishments as a freshman merit a sophomore term."

The Greensboro News & Record Editorial Board

The art of government consists of taking as much money as possible
from one party of citizens to give to the other

Voltaire

Alma Adams and Darin Thomas Edition of "What could the News & Record Editorial Board be thinking?"

"Adams in House District 58

The chairman of the Appropriations Committee
has enormous power to bring home special projects
(sometimes referred to as "pork barrel spending") for his or her "state"...

Wikipedia

...Adams, 64, a Bennett College art professor, has been a consistent advocate for the poor and the powerless. She worked for more than 10 years to raise the minimum wage in North Carolina. She is the sitting chairwoman of the House Appropriations Committee, which plays a significant role in determining state spending.

Alma can "appropriate" bacon?

She faces Republican Darin Thomas, 48, a consultant who specializes in public water and sewer utilities. ...He believes state government is trying to do too much. "We got to this size with the folks in power now," he says.

...He supports start-from-scratch, zero-based budgeting as a way to end bloated "legacy budgets in state government."

Didn't the News & Record Editorial Board think "zero-based budgeting"
was a good idea in John Blust's endorsement?

...Adams prefers revising the state's tax code and ending some tax breaks, though she won't be more specific about which ones.

So the Editorial Board doesn't really care about cutting or lower taxes,
but does care about Alma being on the "appropriations" committee?

She points to the $2.4 billion she and fellow lawmakers cut in the current state budget.

How could they cut $2.4 billion if this year's state budget is bigger than last year's?

Is the Editorial regurgitating an untruth?

How could the Editorial Board say that Don Vaughan said he cut $3 billion
and then say the cuts Alma Adams "points to" $2.4 billion,
without informing their readers of whatever the truth is?

What were the cuts, and if so, how did the state end up with a bigger budget?

If disingenuous, should the News & Record run a clarifying statement before the election?

...Adams has done well by Guilford County's voters by successfully advocating for such local needs the High Point Market and the Joint School of Nanoscience and Nanoengineering.

She knows Raleigh well and serves her constituents effectively...

The Greensboro News & Record Editorial Board

What could the News & Record Editorial Board be thinking?: Bruce Davis, Trudy Wade and Gladys Robinson Edition

"Davis in Senate 28

...this is the one legislative contest across the state with three viable candidates — Davis, Robinson and Republican Trudy Wade.

Davis, 53, ...has learned the governmental process and demonstrated hard work and good judgment.

...He’s got some problems. One is a debt to the IRS on taxes owed by his child-care business. He should clear that up as quickly as possible.

Is taking money out of employees paychecks
and not forwarding on their taxes to the federal government
an indication of good judgement?

Isn't that illegal?

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...Davis, 53, ...has learned the governmental process and demonstrated hard work and good judgment...

Does the News & Record Editorial Board believe breaking the law is OK
for an elected official,
as long as everyone else continues to pay their taxes
that pay for said official's salary?

Was Mr. Davis arrested, and if not, why?

And, he is simultaneously running as a Democrat to keep his county seat. He made it clear that’s not his real interest, and he should have abandoned that race.

...Davis, 53, ...has learned the governmental process and demonstrated hard work and good judgment...

If the News & Record Editorial Board doesn't believe in backing elected officials
who run for different offices at the same time,
and believes we shouldn't commit tax evasion,
and their are other candidates who didn't/aren't doing those things,
why not go for a more honest person?

Robinson, 60, a Pleasant Garden resident, is an excellent candidate. ...Under ordinary circumstances, she would merit election to this seat.

So under un-ordinary circumstances, the News & Record Editorial Board
needed to go with a tax evading double runner?

...Davis, 53, ...has learned the governmental process and demonstrated hard work and good judgment...

Wade, 59, a member of the Greensboro City Council, is a fiscally responsible conservative who says job creation depends on broad tax cuts. She is an effective council member, but her views would not suit most voters in this district.

Does the News & Record Editorial Board believe the voters in N.C. Senate District 28
are more fiscally irresponsible,
so they should be represented by someone just as irresponsible?

She could win with a plurality vote, but the greater opportunity belongs to Davis.

What greater opportunity?

The opportunity to retain a majority Democratic state government?

The opportunity to be fiscally irresponsible?

The opportunity to be in the News & Record's back pocket?

...Davis, 53, ...has learned the governmental process and demonstrated hard work and good judgment... "

"Judgement" about as good as the Editorial Board's?

The Greensboro News & Record Editorial Board

If good judgment comes from experience

does experience come from bad judgment?

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Dont Steal From My Kids

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George Hartzman

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A government which robs Peter to pay Paul

can always depend on the support of Paul

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George Bernard Shaw

Former Greensboro Mayor Yvonne Johnson Tags Tea Party as Extremist

Heard from a fellow friend who sent me the transcript of a robo call voice mail message that was sent from former Greensboro Mayor and Democratic operative Yvonne Johnson . Here is what was said in the phone message sent out to Greensboro citizens.

"This is former Greensboro Mayor Yvonne Johnson . It has almost been a year today that I lost me re-election bid by a few hundred votes. But I am not calling to talk about me, this call is about you. Republicans are turning out to early vote in record numbers and some Democrats are just sitting at home, things that are important to you are at stake to you in this year's election. Everything from jobs to schools.


Your vote is urgently needed to stop the EXTREMIST TEA PARTY  candidates from taking control of our government. Please Please vote. For more information bla bla bla . Paid for by Guilford County Democratic Party. "

Nice to see our former mayor tag the tea party as extremist. Also on a side note it was more than a few hundred votes but actually 961 votes. Nice try and good luck on tuesday.

If both Downtown Greensboro and the Greensboro Partnership receive taxpayer dollars…

…why did the Greensboro Partnership, a Trebic member,
give Downtown Greensboro $25,000?

http://www.downtowngreensboro.net/DGI-Funddrivedonors-2009-2010.html

Better is a little with righteousness

than great income with injustice.

Proverbs 16:8

Why is the City of Greensboro giving $120,000
to the Downtown Greensboro Improvement Corporation
on Tuesday, June 14th?

http://www.greensboro-nc.gov/NR/rdonlyres/6226A797-ABAA-424E-9BD7-23905FA151A4/0/100615agatt.pdf
page 117, fourth quarter contribution = $480,000 per year?

I believe money is fungible

Questions for America, September 30th, 2009

Notable Downtown Greensboro Contributors

Greensboro Partnership, $25,000.00

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Should Downtown Greensboro Inc. use taxpayer dollars

to lobby the City of Greensboro for more taxpayer dollars?

Triad Watch

Thursday, May 20, 2010

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Joseph M. Bryan Foundation, $11,000.00

Cemala Foundation, $10,000.00

Bell Foundation (Steven D. Bell), $5,000.00

Brown Investment Properties, $1,500.00

Greensboro Regional Realtors Association, $1,210.00

Cone, Elizabeth W., $1,000.00

Elm Street Center, LLC, $1,000.00

The Carroll Companies, $550.00

Milton Kern & Co., Inc., $250.00

Signature Property Group, Inc., $250.00

Schwartz, Susan, $125.00

Brown III, Chester H. & Martha, $100.00

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He who oppresses the poor to make more for himself

or who gives to the rich, will only come to poverty.

Proverbs 22:16

Notable Downtown Greensboro Board Members

Brenda Jones Fox, Guilford County


Mayor Bill Knight


Rashad Young, City of Greensboro


Mike Winstead, Guilford County Commissioner, Trebic Member

Robbie Perkins, 10/22/09, $250, Trebic Member

He who oppresses the poor to make more for himself

or who gives to the rich, will only come to poverty.

Proverbs 22:16

Dan Lynch, President of the Greensboro Partnership
Greensboro Economic Development Alliance,
whose board members include Linda Shaw and Nancy Vaughan


Amelia Parker, executive director of the International Civil Rights Museum


Betty Cone, who worked for former Mayor Johnson’s campaign

Robbie Perkins, 09/21/09, $100 Elizabeth W. Cone


Susan Schwartz, board member of the Children’s Museum,
which is in line to receive $100,000 in Greensboro’s 2010/11 budget.

Robbie Perkins 09/17/09 $100

Zack Matheny, 09/13/07, $75

Zack Matheny, 09/09/09, $100


Milton Kern


Al Leonard, Carroll Companies, Trebic
who works for Roy E. Carroll III, a major campaign contributor
and board member of the Greensboro Partnership

Robbie Perkins 10/13/09 $250 Roy

Robbie Perkins 10/19/09 $100 Vanessa Carroll

Jim Kee 10/27/09 $100 Vanessa Carroll

Jim Kee 10/27/09 $250 Roy

Jim Kee 10/27/09 $100 Alvin Leonard, Carroll Companies

Zack Matheny 10/23/09 $100 Alvin Leonard, Carroll Companies

Zack Matheny 10/23/09 $250 Roy

Zack Matheny 10/23/09 $100 Vanessa Carroll

Linda Shaw, 09, Roy Carroll, $500

Jim Kee, 10/27/09, $100, Vanessa Y. Carroll

Jim Kee, 10/27/09, $250, Roy E. Carroll

Jim Kee, 10/27/09, $100, Alvin C. Leonard Jr.

Better is a little with righteousness
than great income with injustice.

Proverbs 16:8

Seth Coker, Signature Property Group, Trebic,
who’s partner Frank Auman is a major political campaign contributor.

Seth Coker, Robbie Perkins, 10/18/09, $100

Seth Coker, Zack Matheny, 08/06/09, $100

Frank Auman, Zack Matheny, 08/28/07, $500

Frank Auman, Zack Matheny, 08/11/09, $500

Frank Auman, Robbie Perkins, 09/15/09, $250

Frank Auman, 09/28/09, Mary Rakestraw, $500

The art of government

consists of taking as much money as possible from one party of citizens

to give to the other

Voltaire

Henri Fourrier, President/CEO/Director of Marketing/Communications
Greensboro Area Convention & Visitors Bureau

The same Henri Fourrier

who sold Greensboro’s electorate on an Aquatic Center

with a non-independent, non third party “hypothetical”

that will most likely cost Greensboro millions

in principal, interest, operating and maintenance costs?

Why would the “Consultant”

who created a $14,337,210 hypothetical economic impact “projection,”

say only debt free competitive swim centers work?

Questions for America, December 3rd, 2009

E. Durant Bell, Bell & Company, Zack Matheny’s employer

Zack Matheny, 06/26/07, $250

Jonathan D. Bell , 06/21/07, Zack Matheny, $1,000

Steven D. Bell, Zack Matheny, 08/03/07, $250

Jonathan D. Bell, Zack Matheny, 08/06/09, $300

Steven D. Bell, Zack Matheny, 09/21/09, $500

Steve Bell, Robbie Perkins, 10/12/09, $750

When buying and selling are controlled by legislation

the first thing to be bought and sold are legislators

P J O'Rourke

Kimberly Brown


Chester Brown, Trebic

Chester Brown III, Zack Matheny, 6/21/2007, $500

Chester Brown Jr., Zack Matheny, 10/09/07, $100

Chester Brown Jr., Zack Matheny, 10/07/09, $75

Fascism should more appropriately be called corporatism

because it is the merger of state and corporate power

Benito Mussolini

George House, Downtown Hotel,
Partner Randall Kaplan is a Greensboro Partnership board member


John Lomax, Trebic

A democracy will continue to exist

up until the time that voters discover

that they can vote themselves generous gifts from the public treasury

From that moment on

the majority always votes for the candidates

who promise the most benefits…

with the result that every democracy

will finally collapse due to loose fiscal policy…

…nations always progressed through the following sequence

From bondage to spiritual faith

from spiritual faith to great courage

from courage to liberty, from liberty to abundance

from abundance to complacency

from complacency to apathy

from apathy to dependence

from dependence back into bondage

Unknown

Piedmont Triad Partnership Notable Board of Directors

Jon Bell
Bell Partners Inc.
ROBBIE PERKINS 09/14/07 Jon Bell Steven D. Bell & Co. Property management
Bell Foundation (Steven D. Bell), gave $5,000.00 to Downtown Greensboro
E. Durant Bell, Bell & Company, Zack Matheny’s employer,
a Downtown Greensboro boardmember, which recieves taxpayer money

J. Patrick Danahy
Greensboro Partnership
Co-Chair, 1/4-Cent Makes Sense Steering Committee,
President of the Greensboro Partnership and Board Member,
whose Action Greensboro gave the Bonds for Schools Committee $70,000
which also gave the Quarter Cent Tax Committee $10,500
whose Greensboro Economic Development Alliance recieve taxpayer money
whose board members include Linda Shaw and Nancy Vaughan
TREBIC MEMBER
Downtown Greensboro Board Member

Henry H. Isaacson
Isaacson Isaacson Sheridan & Fountain
1/4-Cent Makes Sense Steering Committee
TREBIC MEMBER
Supported Jim Kee in 2009
Jill Isaacson gave $500 to the Bonds for Schools Committee

J. Edward Kitchen
Joseph M. Bryan Foundation

Robert E. Long Jr.
Granville Capital Inc.
UNITED WAY OF GREATER GREENSBORO FOUNDATION BOARD MEMBER
Joseph M. Bryan Foundation Board Member
ZACK MATHENY 10/09/07 Robert Long Jr. Granville Capital Banking and finance

Lee McAllister
Weaver Investment Company
Also on the Greensboro Chamber Foundation Board,
which gave the Bonds for Schools Committee $30,000 in 2008
and gave the Quarter Cent Tax Committee $10,000 in 2010
TREBIC MEMBER

Jim S. Melvin
Joseph M. Bryan Foundation
Also on the Greensboro Chamber Foundation Board
with Mr. Charles E. Melvin Jr. Smith Moore Leatherwood LLP, TREBIC MEMBER
which gave the Bonds for Schools Committee $30,000 in 2008
and gave the Quarter Cent Tax Committee $10,000 in 2010.

Jim F. Morgan
Morgan Herring Morgan Green & Rosenblutt LLC
Co-Chair, 1/4-Cent Makes Sense Steering Committee

Timothy Rice
Moses Cone Health System
Also on the Greensboro Chamber Foundation Board,
which gave the Bonds for Schools Committee $30,000
and the Quarter Cent Tax Committee $10,000.

Arthur L. Samet
Samet Corporation
Also on the Greensboro Partnership Board,
whose Action Greensboro gave the Bonds for Schools Committee $70,000
which also gave the Quarter Cent Tax Committee $10,500.
TREBIC MEMBER

Why is the Guilford Merchants Association supporting the quarter cent tax increase and hundreds of millions more debt?

"...The Association's goal is to assist members and the business community at large to grow and prosper."

About the Guilford Merchants Association

Are all the board members of the Guilford Merchants Association on board with higher taxes
to borrow hundreds of millions more as our tax revenues fall,
or is it just most of the Association's board members?

L. Worth Holleman, Jr., Carruthers & Roth, P.A.

Tim Ilderton, Ilderton Chrysler Dodge Jeep

Davis Montgomery, Duke Energy Carolinas

J. Cantey Alexander, BB&T - Also a Greensboro Partnership Board Member

T. Gray McCaskill, Senn Dunn

Michael F. Bumpass, President & CEO, Guilford Merchants Association - Also on the Greensboro Partnership Board

Chris Adams, CN Properties

Spence Broadhurst, Suntrust Bank - Also on the Greensboro Partnership Board

Chester Brown, III, Brown Investment Properties - TREBIC

Greg Grayson, Greensboro Fire Department

Bart Lassiter, City Transfer & Storage

Harold Martin, NC A&T State University

Dan O'Shea, Fairway Outdoor Advertising - Also on the Quarter Cent Tax Committee

Garland Scott, United Healthcare

Tyrone Smith, The Watchful Network

Mark Wheelihan, Harley Davidson of Greensboro

Meredith Williams, Pepper Moon Catering

If the Simpkins PAC’s Skip Alston and Steve Bowden received $750 from Don Vaughan in 2008, and Skip and Steve support the tax increase…?

http://www.app.sboe.state.nc.us/cf_pdf/2008/20081103_70225.pdf

http://www.app.sboe.state.nc.us/cf_pdf/2010/20100713_89602.pdf

The board of directors of the Greensboro Chamber Foundation, which Gave the Quarter Cent Tax Committee $10,000

Deborah Hooper
William Butt
Hoyt Phillips
Dale Hall
Dan Lynch
Jim Melvin
Susan Schwartz
Ralph Shelton
Dennis Barry
Steve Bowden
Denise Turner
Lee Lloyd
Mitchell Johnson
David McNeill
Mackey McDonald
Lee McAllister
Robert Klepfer
Richard Moore
Patrick Danahy
Charles Hagan
Tim Rice

If these folks voted to give the Tax Committee $10,000, are they for borrowing a few hundred more as our revenues fall?

http://www.co.guilford.nc.us/elections_cms/docs/2010%20docs/preref/QUARTER_CENT_MAKES_SENSE_PreRef10.pdf


1/4-Cent Makes Sense Steering Committee

Jim Morgan Co-Chair
Steve Bowden Co-Chair
Pat Danahy Co-Chair
Mary Skenes Treasurer - Zoning Commission
Margaret Arbuckle
Robert "Bob" Brown
Roy Carroll - TREBIC MEMBER
George Clopton
Lora Cubbage
Tom Dayvault
Shirley Frye - Simpkins PAC?
Maurice Hull
Henry Isaacson - TREBIC MEMBER
Skip Alston - Simpkins PAC
Yvonne Johnson
Dan O'Shea - Also on the Greensboro Merchants Association Board
Rev. Clarence Shuford
Rev. Robert J. Williams

http://www.co.guilford.nc.us/elections_cms/docs/2010%20docs/preref/QUARTER_CENT_MAKES_SENSE_PreRef10.pdf

Greensboro Partnership Board Members (partly publicly funded), which gave the Quarter Cent Tax Committee $10,500.

Mr. Arthur Samet Samet Corporation
Mr. Timothy B. Burnett Bessemer Improvement Co.
Mr. Roy E. Carroll III The Carroll Companies
Mr. Edward C. Winslow III Brooks, Pierce, McLendon, Humphrey, & Leonard, LLP.
Ms. Deborah L. Hooper WFMY News 2
Mr. Randall Kaplan Capsule Group, LLC
Mr. Kenneth C. Mayer Jr. Moser Mayer Phoenix Associates, PA
Mr. Jim Melvin Joseph M. Bryan Foundation of Greater Greensboro
Mr. Charles E. Melvin Jr. Smith Moore Leatherwood LLP
Mr. Stephen D. Showefty Koury Corporation
Mr. H. Walker Sanders Community Foundation of Greater GSO
Mr. Robin Saul News & Record
Mr. Richard L. Moore, Weaver Foundation
Mr. R. Steve Bowden, R. Steve Bowden & Associates
Mr. Jim W. Phillips Jr., Brooks, Pierce, McLendon, Humphrey, & Leonard LLP
who gave the Bonds for Schools Committee $500
Ms. Susan S. Schwartz, Cemala Foundation
Mr. J. Patrick Danahy, Greensboro Partnership President & CEO
Ms. Shirley Frye

Why is the Greensboro Chamber of Commerce supporting the quarter cent tax increase?

"...Over its history, the Chamber has worked to develop greater opportunities for the business community while cultivating a more vibrant quality of life."

...the Chamber is still dedicated to building relationships, building business, and building success for companies in the Greensboro area."

About the Chamber

.

Are all the members of the Greensboro Chamber of Commerce on board

with higher taxes to borrow hundreds of millions more,

or is it just some of the Chamber's members,

like those on the Steering Committee?
.

"1/4-Cent Makes Sense Steering Committee

Jim Morgan Co-Chair

Steve Bowden Co-Chair

Pat Danahy Co-Chair

Mary Skenes Treasurer

Margaret Arbuckle

Robert "Bob" Brown

Roy Carroll

George Clopton

Lora Cubbage

Tom Dayvault

Shirley Frye

Maurice Hull

Henry Isaacson

Skip Alston

Yvonne Johnson

Dan O'Shea

Rev. Clarence Shuford

Rev. Robert J. Williams"

http://www.quartercentmakessense.com/Committee.html

Editorial Cartoons for the Week of October 26, 2010,Topics:National Pathetic Radio, Shovel Ready Job and More

NATIONAL PATHETIC RADIO

SHOVEL READY JOB

UNEMPLOYED IN OCTOBER

EMPIRE STRIKING BACK

CHILEAN OBAMA

POWER HANDOFF

Editorial cartoons for the week of October 26, 2010

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If TREBIC endorsed the quarter cent tax increase, do all of TREBIC's members support borrowing hundreds of millions more as our revenue falls?

TREBIC Member Associations:

Greensboro Builders Association

Greensboro Regional REALTORS© Association

Greensboro Regional REALTORS© Association REALTORS© Commercial Alliance

High Point Regional Association of REALTORS©

High Point Regional Association of REALTORS© REALTORS© Commercial Alliance

Triad Apartment Association

National Association of Industrial and Office Parks (NAIOP) NC Piedmont Triad Chapter



Gold Members
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Anderson & Associates Inc.
Brown Investment Properties
Carroll Companies
D.H. Griffin
D.R. Horton Homes
Keystone Group, Inc.
Kotis Properties
Koury Corporation
Richardson Corporation
Samet Corporation
Shugart Management
Signature Property Group
Smith Moore Leatherwood LLP
Southern Property Management



Silver Members
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AT&T
BB&T
Bessemer Improvement
Blue Ridge Companies, Inc.
Borum Wade & Assoc.
D. Stone Builders, Inc.
Duke Energy
Fairway Outdoor Advertising
Highwoods Properties
Isaacson Isaacson Sheridan & Fountain
Johnston Properties, Inc.
NAI Piedmont Triad
Nexsen Pruet, PLLC
Orleans Homebuilders, Inc.
PNP Design Group
Redwolf Development Co.
Sparrow Wolf & Dennis, P.A.
Starmount Company
Time Warner Cable
Triad Commercial Properties
Triad Design Group
Tuggle Duggins & Meschan, P.A.
Turn Key Construction
Weaver Investment Co.



Bronze Members
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Allen Tate Company, LLC
Avalon Construction
Birch Development, Inc.
Carolina Bank HP Branch
Carolina Community Developers
Carruthers & Roth
CB Richard Ellis
Chaney Properties
Civil Designs, PA
Colvin, Sutton, Winters Appraisals
CPT Engineering and Surveying
Davenport Transportation Consulting
Davis-Martin-Powell & Associates, Inc.
Deaton Development Consultants, PLLC
Donathan Properties
Dunlap Lawn Service
Eastwood Homes
Engineering Consulting Services
Evans Engineering
First Bank
Fleming Engineering, Inc.
Gary Hill
Greensboro Partnership
Guilford Merchants Association
Hagan Properties Inc. HICAPS, Inc.
High Point Chamber of Commerce
Hugh Creed Associates, Inc. PA
Imperial Construction & Development
K. Hovnanian Homes
Land Solutions
Landmark Builders
Liberty Property Trust
Lomax Properties, LLC
McNairy & Associates
Piedmont Natural Gas
Premier Commercial Bank
Regional Land Surveyors, Inc.
Reliant Properties
Sargent Sims & Jenkins Realty
Senn Dunn Insurance
Simpson, Schulman & Beard
Southern Community Bank and Trust
Stimmel Associates, P.A.
Timmons Group
Wade Jurney Homes
Ward and Smith, P.A.
Weyhill Commericial,, LLC
Windsor Investments
Wyatt Early Harris Wheeler LLP



Non Profit Organizations
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Affordable Housing Management
Gate City Company
Habitat for Humanity

Why is the Triad Apartment Association supporting the quarter cent tax increase and hundreds of millions more debt?

BILL KNIGHT 10/15/09 Greensboro Landlords Association Landlords TREBIC MEMBER

JIM KEE 10/13/09 Greensboro Landlords Association Political action committee TREBIC MEMBER

ROBBIE PERKINS 10/13/09 Greensboro Landlords Association PAC Greensboro Landlords Association PAC Landlords TREBIC MEMBER

MARY RAKESTRAW 10/20/09 Greensboro Landlords Association PAC Landlords TREBIC MEMBER

ZACK MATHENY 10/23/09 Greensboro Landlords Association PAC Landlords TREBIC MEMBER

DANNY THOMPSON 10/22/09 Greensboro Landlords Association PAC Landlords TREBIC MEMBER

TRUDY WADE 10/23/09 Greensboro Landlords Associaton Landlords TREBIC MEMBER

2010 Triad Apartment Association Board of Directors

President
Sterling Kelly
Burkely Communities

ROBBIE PERKINS 09/15/09 Mark P. Reynolds Burkley Harris Construction Real estate developer

ROBBIE PERKINS 09/16/09 Mike Murray Burkley Harris Construction Real estate developer

Vice-President
Marc Crouse
Banshee, inc

Scott Mcneely
McNeely Pest Control

Mindy McCorkle
Blue Ridge Companies

ROBBIE PERKINS 09/14/07 Amy Gaskill Blue Ridge Cos. Real estate developer TREBIC MEMBER

ROBBIE PERKINS 10/16/09 Christopher T. Dunbar Blue Ridge Cos. Real estate developer TREBIC MEMBER

ROBBIE PERKINS 09/14/07 Christopher T. Dunbar Blue Ridge Cos. Real estate developer TREBIC MEMBER

ROBBIE PERKINS 09/24/07 David F. Couch Blue Ridge Cos. Real estate developer TREBIC MEMBER

ROBBIE PERKINS 10/15/09 David L. Couch Blue Ridge Cos. Real estate developer TREBIC MEMBER

ROBBIE PERKINS H. David Niblock Blue Ridge Cos. Real estate developer TREBIC MEMBER

ROBBIE PERKINS 09/14/07 Lyle Everhart Blue Ridge Cos. Real estate developer TREBIC MEMBER

ROBBIE PERKINS 09/14/07 Lynda M. Hill Blue Ridge Cos. Real estate developer TREBIC MEMBER

ROBBIE PERKINS 10/14/09 Susan E. Passmore Blue Ridge Cos. Real estate developer TREBIC MEMBER

ROBBIE PERKINS 10/15/09 Wesley Stallings Blue Ridge Cos. Real estate developer TREBIC MEMBER

Secretary
Rebecca Rosario
Full House Marketing

Mary Gwyn
Apartment Dynamics

Jeff Reep
Bell Partners

ZACK MATHENY 10/07/09 Erin J. O'Brien Bell Partners Property management

ZACK MATHENY 07/29/09 Evan Durant Bell Bell Partners Property management

ZACK MATHENY 06/26/07 Evan Durant Bell Bell Partners Real estate-development

ZACK MATHENY 10/07/09 John Tomlinson Bell Partners Property management

ZACK MATHENY 08/06/09 Jonathan D. Bell Bell Partners Property management

ZACK MATHENY 06/21/07 Jonathan D. Bell Bell Partners Lawyers and law firms

ZACK MATHENY 09/15/09 Joseph Cannon Bell Partners Property management

ZACK MATHENY 08/03/07 Michael Bateman Bell Partners Real estate-development

ZACK MATHENY 11/24/09 Robert Slater Bell Partners Property management

ROBBIE PERKINS 10/12/09 Steve Bell Bell Partners Property management

ZACK MATHENY 09/21/09 Steven D. Bell Bell Partners Property management

ZACK MATHENY 08/03/07 Steven D. Bell Bell Partners Real estate-development

Seth Coker
Signature Property Group

BILL KNIGHT 10/05/09 Frank Auman Signature Properties Developer TREBIC MEMBER

TRUDY WADE 10/04/07 Frank Auman Signature Properties Developer TREBIC MEMBER

ZACK MATHENY 08/28/07 Frank Auman Signature Properties Real estate-development TREBIC

ROBBIE PERKINS 10/18/09 Jonathan Seth Coker Signature Properties Real estate TREBIC MEMBER

ROBBIE PERKINS 10/01/07 Frank Auman Signature Property Group Real estate developer TREBIC MEMBER

NANCY VAUGHAN 09/11/09 Frank Auman Signature Property Group Real estate development TREBIC MEMBER

NANCY VAUGHAN 06/11/09 Frank Auman Signature Property Group Developer TREBIC MEMBER

MARY RAKESTRAW 10/24/07 Jonathan Coker Signature Property Group Real estate developer TREBIC MEMBER

ROBBIE PERKINS 09/17/07 Seth Coker Signature Property Group Real estate developer TREBIC MEMBER

MARY RAKESTRAW 09/28/09 Frank Auman Signature Realty Group Real estate developer TREBIC MEMBER

TRUDY WADE 10/21/09 Frank Auman Signature Realty Group Real estate developer TREBIC MEMBER

TRUDY WADE 01/18/08 Frank Auman Signature Realty Group Real estate developer TREBIC MEMBER

ROBBIE PERKINS 09/15/09 Frank Auman Signature Realty Group LLC Real estate developer TREBIC MEMBER

At-Large
Matt Ketterman
Got You Floored

Mike Murray
BerkleyHall

Treasurer
Lisa Dellinger
Koury Corporation

ZACK MATHENY 07/17/09 Andrew P. Vanore Koury Corp. Real estate-development TREBIC MEMBER

ZACK MATHENY 07/30/07 Andrew P. Vanore Koury Corp. Real estate-development TREBIC

MARY RAKESTRAW 09/22/09 Ashley K. Vanore Koury Corp. Real estate developer TREBIC MEMBER

ROBBIE PERKINS 09/15/09 Ashley K. Vanore Koury Corp. Real estate developer TREBIC MEMBER

ROBBIE PERKINS 10/01/07 Ashley K. Vanore Koury Corp. Real estate developer TREBIC MEMBER

TRUDY WADE 10/04/07 Ashley K. Vanore Koury Corp. Real estate developer TREBIC MEMBER

TRUDY WADE 04/01/09 Ashley K. Vanore Koury Corp. Real estate developer TREBIC MEMBER

NANCY VAUGHAN 06/15/09 Ashley Koury Vanore Koury Corp. Real estate development TREBIC MEMBER

ZACK MATHENY 07/17/09 Ashley Vanore Koury Corp. Real estate-development TREBIC MEMBER

ZACK MATHENY 10/30/07 Ashley Vanore Koury Corp. Real estate-development TREBIC

MARY RAKESTRAW 09/22/09 Edmund W. Koury Koury Corp. Real estate developer TREBIC MEMBER

ROBBIE PERKINS 09/16/09 Edmund W. Koury Koury Corp. Real estate developer TREBIC MEMBER

ROBBIE PERKINS 10/01/07 Edmund W. Koury Koury Corp. Real estate developer TREBIC MEMBER

TRUDY WADE 10/04/07 Edmund W. Koury Koury Corp. Real estate developer TREBIC MEMBER

NANCY VAUGHAN 06/02/09 Edmund W. Koury Koury Corp. Real estate development TREBIC MEMBER

TRUDY WADE 04/01/09 Edmund W. Koury Koury Corp. Real estate developer TREBIC MEMBER

ZACK MATHENY 07/17/09 Eugene Tillman Koury Corp. Real estate-development TREBIC MEMBER

ZACK MATHENY 07/17/09 Kelly Harrill Koury Corp. Real estate development TREBIC MEMBER

ZACK MATHENY 10/30/07 Kelly Harrill Koury Corp. Real estate-development TREBIC

ROBBIE PERKINS 09/15/09 Kelly K. Harrill Koury Corp. Real estate developer TREBIC MEMBER

ROBBIE PERKINS 10/01/07 Kelly K. Harrill Koury Corp. Real estate developer TREBIC MEMBER

TRUDY WADE 10/05/07 Kelly K. Harrill Koury Corp. Real estate developer TREBIC MEMBER

TRUDY WADE 04/01/09 Kelly K. Harrill Koury Corp. Real estate developer TREBIC MEMBER

MARY RAKESTRAW 09/22/09 Kelly K. Harrill Koury Corp. Real estate developer TREBIC MEMBER

NANCY VAUGHAN 06/15/09 Kelly Koury Harrill Koury Corp. Real estate development TREBIC MEMBER

ZACK MATHENY 07/17/09 Lisa Johnson Koury Corp. Real estate development TREBIC MEMBER

ZACK MATHENY 10/30/07 Lisa Johnson Koury Corp. Real estate-development TREBIC

MARY RAKESTRAW 09/22/09 Lisa K. Johnson Koury Corp. Real estate developer TREBIC MEMBER

ROBBIE PERKINS 09/19/10 Lisa K. Johnson Koury Corp. Real estate developer TREBIC MEMBER

ROBBIE PERKINS 10/01/07 Lisa K. Johnson Koury Corp. Real estate developer TREBIC MEMBER

TRUDY WADE 10/04/07 Lisa K. Johnson Koury Corp. Real estate developer TREBIC MEMBER

TRUDY WADE 04/01/09 Lisa K. Johnson Koury Corp. Real estate developer TREBIC MEMBER

NANCY VAUGHAN 06/15/09 Lisa Koury Johnson Koury Corp. Real estate development TREBIC MEMBER

TRUDY WADE 10/04/07 Mo Milani Koury Corp. Real estate developer TREBIC MEMBER

NANCY VAUGHAN 06/15/09 Mo Milani Koury Corp. Real estate development TREBIC MEMBER

TRUDY WADE 04/01/09 Mo Milani Koury Corp. Real estate developer TREBIC MEMBER ZACK MATHENY 07/17/09 Ronald Mack Koury Corp. Real estate/development TREBIC MEMBER

ZACK MATHENY 10/09/07 Ronald Mack Koury Corp. Real estate-development TREBIC

ROBBIE PERKINS 09/12/09 Ronald W. Mack Koury Corp. Real estate developer TREBIC MEMBER

ROBBIE PERKINS 10/03/07 Ronald W. Mack Koury Corp. Real estate developer TREBIC MEMBER

TRUDY WADE 10/04/07 Ronald W. Mack Koury Corp. Real estate developer TREBIC MEMBER

NANCY VAUGHAN 06/15/09 Ronald W. Mack Koury Corp. Real estate development TREBIC MEMBER

TRUDY WADE 04/01/09 Ronald W. Mack Koury Corp. Real estate developer TREBIC MEMBER

ZACK MATHENY 07/17/09 Stephanie Craft Koury Corp. Real estate development TREBIC MEMBER

ZACK MATHENY 10/30/07 Stephanie Craft Koury Corp. Real estate-development TREBIC

MARY RAKESTRAW Stephanie K. Craft Koury Corp. Real estate developer TREBIC MEMBER

ROBBIE PERKINS 09/15/09 Stephanie K. Craft Koury Corp. Real estate developer TREBIC MEMBER

ROBBIE PERKINS 10/01/07 Stephanie K. Craft Koury Corp. Real estate developer TREBIC MEMBER

TRUDY WADE 10/04/07 Stephanie K. Craft Koury Corp. Real estate developer TREBIC MEMBER

TRUDY WADE 04/01/09 Stephanie K. Craft Koury Corp. Real estate developer TREBIC MEMBER

NANCY VAUGHAN 06/15/09 Stephanie Koury Craft Koury Corp. Real estate development TREBIC MEMBER

ROBBIE PERKINS 09/22/09 Stephen D. Showfety Koury Corp. Real estate developer TREBIC MEMBER

TRUDY WADE 10/04/07 Stephen D. Showfety Koury Corp. Real estate developer TREBIC MEMBER

NANCY VAUGHAN 06/15/09 Stephen D. Showfety Koury Corp. Real estate development TREBIC MEMBER

TRUDY WADE 04/01/09 Stephen D. Showfety Koury Corp. Real estate developer TREBIC MEMBER

ROBBIE PERKINS 10/03/07 Stephen Showfety Koury Corp. Real estate developer TREBIC MEMBER

ZACK MATHENY 07/17/09 Stephen Showfety Koury Corp. Real estate-development TREBIC MEMBER

ZACK MATHENY 10/09//2007 Stephen Showfety Koury Corp. Foundation TREBIC

Monica Phillips
Phillips Management Group

ROBBIE PERKINS 10/18/07 Keith Phillips Phillips Management Real estate management

http://www.mytaa.org/Default.aspx?pageId=607928

What could those supporting the quarter cent tax increase expect to gain or lose, if Greensboro and Guilford borrow more than $300 million, or not?

The partisan,
when engaged in a dispute,
cares nothing about the rights of the question,
but is anxious only to convince his hearers of his own assertions.

Plato

.
It is difficult to get a man to understand something
when his salary depends on his not understanding it.

Upton Sinclair

.

Statements by high officials are practically always misleading,
when they are designed to bolster a falling market.

Gerald M Loeb

.

Follow the money.

Deep Throat
Watergate whistleblower

.

The proposal of any new law or regulation
which comes from [businessmen]
ought always to be listened to with great precaution
and ought never to be adopted
till after having been long and carefully examined
not only with the most scrupulous, but with the most suspicious attention
.
It comes from an order of men
whose interest is never exactly the same with that of the public
who have generally an interest to deceive and even to oppress the public
and who accordingly have, upon many occasions
both deceived and oppressed it
.
Adam Smith
Moral philosopher and Father of Modern Economics

Clarence Thomas: Did Citizens United let a Supreme Court Justice get bought through the wife?

"...Mrs. Thomas started her nonprofit in late 2009 with two gifts of $500,000 and $50,000, and additional sums this year that we don’t know about yet.
She does not have to disclose the donors, whose money makes possible the compensation she brings into the Thomas household.

There is no way to tell if her donors have cases before the Supreme Court or whether her husband knows their identities. And she never would have to disclose them if her husband had his way.

The 5-to-4 Citizens United decision last January gave corporations, foreign contributors, unions, Big Energy, Big Oil and superrich conservatives a green light to surreptitiously funnel in as much money as they want, whenever they want to elect or unelect candidates. As if that weren’t enough to breed corruption, Thomas was the only justice — in a rare case of detaching his hip from Antonin Scalia’s — to write a separate opinion calling for an end to donor disclosures.

...So much for conservatives’ professed disdain of judicial activism. And so much for the public’s long-held trust in the impartiality of the nation’s highest court.

...Thomas and Scalia have flouted ethics rules by attending seminars sponsored by Koch Industries, an energy and manufacturing conglomerate run by billionaire brothers that has donated more than $100 million to far-right causes.

Christine O’Donnell may not believe in the separation of church and state, but the Supreme Court does not believe in the separation of powers. "

Maureen Dowd

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Is breast cancer "awareness" a scam?: "Why isn't it called Breast Cancer Prevention Month?"

"...you're only supposed to be "aware" of breast cancer, but you're not supposed to actually prevent it.

They should really call it the "Be Afraid of Breast Cancer Month."

The big push for more cancer screening, it turns out, only results in more recruitment of women into high-profit cancer therapies such as chemotherapy and surgery. This is where the real profits are to be found, and Breast Cancer Awareness Month is really all about corralling women into these high-profit treatments.

How much would the Cancer Industry lose if they found a cure?

...Preventing breast cancer would reduce the number of cancer patients being processed through their high-profit cancer centers.

.

Do "awareness" campaigns increase the profitability of the Cancer Industry?

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...go to a "Walk for the Cure" cancer rally sometime and ask the officials there why they don't promote preventing breast cancer. ...Their entire focus is treating breast cancer, which is a clever ploy for recruiting women into extremely toxic conventional cancer therapies such as chemotherapy, radiation and surgery. They absolutely do not want women to know how to prevent breast cancer because that would ...put them all out of business.

...Cancer is growing into a trillion-dollar industry worldwide. There's a ton of money to be made from keeping women nutritionally ignorant, scaring them into cancer screening, irradiating their breasts with mammograms, and then charging them huge dollars to "treat" their cancers. It's a highly profitable scam that exploits the bodies of women for corporate profits, and virtually all the cancer non-profits are on board...

...What we really have in America today is a conspiracy against women, erected and operated via collusion between Big Government and Big Pharma, both of which benefit when women are sick, frail, afraid and desperate."

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