Will Greensboro's Press express any notion of accountability for failing to report Greensboro's City Council not voting on a pro-RUCO resolution before Bev Perdue gutted RUCO?

Teddy Roosevelt, Ben Franklin, Abraham Lincoln and Franklin Roosevelt on crony capitalism, Egypt, and the rest of the non-democratic world

Patriotism means to stand by the country.

It does not mean to stand by the president or any other public official
save exactly to the degree in which he himself stands by the country.

It is patriotic to support him insofar as he efficiently serves the country.

It is unpatriotic not to oppose him to the exact extent
that by inefficiency or otherwise he fails in his duty to stand by the country.

Teddy Roosevelt

Those who give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety
deserve neither liberty nor safety.

Ben Franklin

"To announce that there must be no criticism of the President,
or that we are to stand by the President, right or wrong,
is not only unpatriotic and servile,
but is morally treasonable to the American public."

Teddy Roosevelt

This country, with its institutions, belongs to the people who inhabit it.

Whenever they shall grow weary of the existing government,
they can exercise their constitutional right of amending it,
or their revolutionary right to dismember or overthrow it.

Abraham Lincoln
.

These economic royalists complain that we seek to overthrow the institutions of America.


What they really complain of is that we seek to take away their power.


Our allegiance to American institutions requires the overthrow of this kind of power.


In vain they seek to hide behind the flag and the Constitution.


In their blindness they forget what the flag and the Constitution stand for.


Franklin Roosevelt

Please answer the questions Allen Johnson, Editor of the Greensboro News & Record Editorial Board

http://www.news-record.com/blog/2011/10/28/entry/students_vote_with_their_feet

White Street Landfill Flashback II: Should the proponents of keeping the landfill closed justify the costs?

"Greensboro could save about $100 million over the next 25 years by using the White Street Landfill according to an independent analyst...

...Mayor Bill Knight, a retired certified public accountant announced earlier this year that his figures showed the city would save over $7 million a year by using the White Street Landfill instead of shipping all of our garbage to the Uwharries. If you take Knight's number and multiply it out you come up with a minimum savings over 25 years of $175 million...

How would Greensboro's residents to know if reopening the landfill is a good idea,

if the City of Greensboro refuses to release basic financial information to the public?

...The estimated savings of $100 million was based on an extremely conservative estimate of costs increasing at 1 percent a year. The cost of landfill space is skyrocketing.

If landfill costs have almost never gone higher by less than 1%

why would Rashad Young or his subordinates

accept and present a landfill savings analysis based on unrealistic assumptions?
.

Has the Greensboro News & Record, Yes Weekly or any TV stations

reported the $175 million figure,

or the possible manipulation of the analysts data?

...One of the recurring themes of the meeting voiced by Council members Dianne Bellamy-Small, Jim Kee and Robbie Perkins was that the landfill should not be reopened...
.

If a few purchased relatively inexpensive homes

near a landfill established more than 60 years ago,

why should the many unaffected who may have paid more for their residences

to avoid potential hazards and easements,

be taxed to have trash shipped elsewhere during a recession?
.

Why would Robbie Perkins vehemently oppose a policy

that could save the city about $175 million over 25 years?

...both Knight and Council member Danny Thompson said they did not think reopening the landfill was off the table.

How could a majority of Greensboro taxpayers feel about what could be

Mr. Perkins willingness to exchange about $175 million of other people's property taxes

for the chance to become Greensboro's Mayor?

...The consultant reminded the City Council that when the city operated the landfill that the city charged private haulers for dumping their garbage at the landfill, but the city trucks were not charged because the fees from the private haulers covered the cost of operating the landfill.
.

Why would Mr. Perkins put his personal political interests

above those of the majority of Greensboro taxpayers and their children?

One former city council member, who was asked about the landfill operation before the meeting, remembered the landfill fund balance was a place the council went when it needed money because the landfill operated at a considerable profit.

John Hammer
Rhino Times

If many well run businesses and educated workers could be attracted by what could be

a financially sound well managed municipality with relatively low tax rates,

as what may be the worst recession since the Great Depression

transitions into a new era of economic growth,

why would Robbie Perkins want to not do what's best for the City of Greensboro?

Allen Johnson and how the Greensboro News & Record appears to have manipulated a City Council Election

Denise Turner Roth's, and a lot of other entities conflict of interests with Greensboro's taxpayers

Did Matheny and Perkins stack the RUCO Board? "The information you requested regarding who appointed whom to the RUCO Advisory Board is listed below:"

Name:................................Appointed by:............Date:

Robert Aiken.................... Mayor Johnson...........2/19/2008.............Greensboro Landlords Association, TREBIC
Howard Auman................ Perkins....................... 4/19/2011..............Signature Properties, TREBIC
Willena Cannon................. Wells.........................12/2/2008...............Greensboro Housing Coalition
Dawn Chaney.................. Rakestraw...................8/2/2010.................Landlord, TREBIC
Bryan Nelson.....................Perkins......................4/19/2011...............Triad Apartment Association, TREBIC
Mike Pendergraft............... Matheny....................1/18/2011..............Real Estate Attorney
Robbie Perkins................ Mayor Knight..............Council Representative
Lee Porter......................... Matheny.......................1/4/2011..............CEO, Birch [Property] Management, TREBIC
Jeff Simms..........................Wade...........................1/6/2009............agent or owners of rental properties, per Jordan Green
Penny Smith.....................Bellamy-Small..................4/6/2010
Ron Tuck......................... Bellamy-Small..................7/21/2009...........Construction Contractor
Helen Wood....................... Perkins..........................2/1/2011...........Realtor, Apartment owner and manager

Regards,

City Manager's Office
City of Greensboro, 10/29/2011

Why has Robbie Perkins's campaign paid The Harris Partners $34,777.89, and what was the money spent on?

Unanswered City of Greensboro Information Requests since September 26, 2011: Denise Turner Roth, Rashad Young, Marlene Sanford, RUCO, TREBIC, Robbie, Matheny

If Denise Turner Roth was Vice President for Governmental Affairs

and acted as a lobbyist for the taxpayer funded Greensboro Partnership

which funds TREBIC and is a TREBIC member, along with

Greensboro Builders Association, Greensboro Regional REALTORS© Association,

the Piedmont Triad Apartment Association,

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

Brown Investment Properties, Carroll Companies, D.H. Griffin, Keystone Group, Inc.

Koury Corporation, Richardson Corporation, Samet Corporation,

Signature Property Group, Smith Moore Leatherwood LLP,

D. Stone Builders, Inc., Isaacson Isaacson Sheridan & Fountain, Kotis Properties,

NAI Piedmont Triad, Nexsen Pruet, PLLC, Tuggle Duggins & Meschan, P.A.,

Weaver Investment Co., Alliance Management, Inc., Carruthers & Roth,

Greensboro Partnership, Hagan Properties Inc., Lomax Properties, LLC,

Simpson, Schulman & Beard, Starmount Company and Windsor Investments

and TREBIC members include Roy Carroll, Robbie Perkins,

and the Greensboro Parntership gave the Bonds for Schools Committee $70,000

which also gave the Quarter Cent Tax Committee $10,500

whose Greensboro Economic Development Alliance recieves taxpayer money

whose board members include Linda Shaw and Nancy Vaughan

and TREBIC was directly responsible for eliminating RUCO

with taxpayer funds from the Greensboro Partnership

and Robbie Perkins NAI Piedmont, among multiples of other real estate contributors

to Mr. Perkins Mayoral campaign,

and its been more than a month since the requests were made,

should some be sceptical of the information request being answered

before the election?

If Jon Bell, Bell Partners, Dr. Linda P. Brady, UNCG,
Charles E. Melvin Jr., Smith Moore Leatherwood LLP
Jim Melvin, Joseph M. Bryan Foundation of Greater GSO
Dan Lynch, Greensboro Economic Development Alliance
and Stephen D. Showefty, Koury Corporation
are all on the Greensboro Partnership Board of Directors
and the Greensboro Partnership funds TREBIC which worked to eliminate RUCO,
could many at the Greensboro Partnership represent the 1%?

Zack Matheny on Crony Capitalism and the 1%

“I think that we do need to expand the water-sewer pump station out near Rock Creek
where [the American Express data center] is going.

When AmEx comes on line, that pump system’s going to be at maximum capacity.

Why?

We’ve got to increase that,
because what happens if we get the next American Express that needs water and sewer?

Shouldn't Roy Carroll, who profited from the Amex deal

right after they fired 1,500 across town

pay for water and sewer to his outlying properties?

Does the 99% have to pay?

Dear Jordan Green; Please call Zack and ask what his actual position is on the White Street Landfill

Unanswered City of Greensboro Information Requests: Denise Turner Roth, Rashad Young, Marlene Sanford, RUCO, TREBIC, Robbie, Matheny

If the Greensboro News & Record's Robin Saul is on the Greensboro Partnerships Board of Directors, which is a TREBIC member, did the Editorial Board sell out Greensboro's renters?

If the Greensboro News & Record Editorial Board Member Robin Saul,
is a Board Member of the publicly funded Greensboro Partnership which funds TREBIC,
should the paper disclose Mr. Saul's conflict of interest, when reporting on RUCO?

If money is fungible,
did Greensboro's taxpayers indirectly fund the lobbying that killed RUCO
by funding the Greensboro Partnership which, as a member of TREBIC,
funded the wishes of our local real estate industry?

What is an apologist?

Where are the Edward R. Murrows?

How to play the City of Greensboro for chumps, by the Greensboro News & Record Editorial Board

Lying by omission

One lies by omission by omitting an important fact,

deliberately leaving another person with a misconception.

Lying by omission includes failures to correct pre-existing misconceptions.

…Propaganda is an example of lying by omission.

Wikipedia

If Marsh Prause is listed as a Robbie Perkins supporter, why has he been moderating Greensboro City Council forums?

Notable Supporters for Robbie Perkins for Mayor

Are the most convincing lies mostly true?

If you choose not to know something,

especially if that something is something you should know,

you are morally blameworthy.

Robert P. Lawry

Director of the Center for Professional Ethics

Political Journalism Ethics: What should the news industry in an average American city report to their customers, if a candidate for public office left his/her spouse coincident with filing to run for office, while involved in an extra-marital affair?

The great majority of mankind are satisfied with appearance

as though they were realities,

and are often more influenced by the things that seem than those that are.

Niccolo Machiavelli

Glenn Greenwald on Robbie, Roy and Greensboro's Press

"The core propagandistic premise was that [Robbie and Roy] were rich because they deserved to be.

Robbie Perkins and Roy Carroll ,"What Happens in Vegas"

TRIADWATCH PARODY


Will we see any local reporter ask questions in regards to the relationship between crony capitalist developer Roy Carroll and sitting council member and mayoral candidate Robbie Perkins? Did Roy Carroll take Robbie Perkins out to Las Vegas on his personal plane? Would this be ethical for a sitting councilmember be taking a flight to Las Vegas on Roy Carroll's plane?

We have seen in past where the Greensboro sitting attorney Terry Wood had this to say in this post titled "Greensboro City Attorney Advised the Trip to D.C. Raises Ethical Concerns for Mayor of Greensboro and Chairman", CLICKHERE . 

We also know that Robbie Perkins has a place to live in Center Point which is Roy Carroll's downtown taxpayer funded penthouse with address of 201 north elm street unit #906, from a deed of trust on 10-30-2009 deed will not exceed $228,000. Did Robbie Perkins get a sweet heart deal on this property from Roy Carroll? Will we see any reporting from out local journalist?

This relationship between sitting council member Robbie Perkins and local developer Roy Carroll needs to get a closer look and needs to get reported on by the local media. Amanda, Joe, Jordan, Allen, Doug anytakers?

Why is the Taxpayer Funded Greensboro Partnership a TREBIC Member?, with Robbie and Nancy quotes

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

Matheny admits to being a bought politician?

I find it hard to believe that very many businesses downtown

– which it is the businesses that told me to create the curfew in the first place...

Zack Matheny

Jordan Green on 2008's redistricting plan: Bellamy- Small, Wade, Burckley, Knight, Matheny, Vaughan and Rakestraw

"...the process seems to be following a divisive chain of events in 2008...

Then, the council voted 5-4 to reject a plan created by staff and favored by District 1 Councilwoman Dianne Bellamy- Small before approving a plan submitted by Matheny that worked to the advantage of District 5 Councilwoman Trudy Wade.

This time, Wade moved to appoint Matheny as liaison for redistricting.

Bellamy-Small asked if she could work with Matheny on the plan, and was turned down.

The redistricting process of 2008 marked a first, according to city staff: Never before had an outside consultant been involved in crafting redistricting plans.

This year could mark yet another first in the city’s redistricting history: Matheny said he is working out the details for a public input meeting to make the process more open and transparent.

For the past two years, a rumor has circulated through city hall and among elected officials and municipal employees involving political consultant Bill Burckley, who helped Wade win election in 2007, and who helped engineer Bill Knight’s mayoral upset two years later, in addition to assisting on the campaigns of Matheny, Mayor Pro Tem Nancy Vaughan and District 4 Councilwoman Mary Rakestraw.

The rumor had gained such strong currency that at-large Councilman Robbie Perkins joked when redistricting came up for discussion at the council’s Feb. 15 meeting: “I nominate Bill Burckley to fill that role.”

According to rumor, Burckley drew up the 2008 redistricting plan, and handed it off to Wade; Wade passed it on to Matheny; and Matheny claimed ownership of the plan and presented it to council, which approved it by a narrow majority.

...the city staff’s next priority was to develop a plan that minimized the number of precincts transferred. Staff’s favored plan and the one eventually championed by Bellamy- Small was Plan B.

...Steve Sherman, the city’s geographical information services manager...also recalls working with Burckley. “Bill, as I understand it, was under contract by Councilwoman Wade to develop plans,” Sherman said, “although I never saw a check pass hands.”

Neither Burckley nor Wade returned calls for this story.

Sherman said Burckley submitted five plans to him on Jan. 2, and a fifth plan on Jan. 9, 2008.

One of Burckley’s plans was dropped because it did not provide contiguity.

...Matheny joined the process later, prompted by a tip that some of the staff-generated plans redrew District 3 in a way that was not to his liking.

“When I found out that New Irving Park was out of District 3, somebody said, ‘Zack, you ought to pay attention to the redistricting,’” Matheny said. “That’s the heart of my district.”

Jordan

Where the Restaurant tax money would go, via Tony Wilkins

 http://www.busybeingbornblog.com/?p=623

Telegraph: "Eurozone summit - despair and backbiting in the corridors of power"

"The ever-worsening eurozone crisis has sent relations between its leaders to an all-time low

Shell-shocked EU finance ministers meeting in Brussels on Saturday were already reeling from the worst Franco-German rift for over 20 years and a fractious failure to resolve the problems that have brought Greece, and the euro, close to the brink.

But then a new bombshell hit as a joint report by the EU and the International Monetary Fund (IMF) warned that, without a default, the Greek debt crisis alone could swallow the eurozone's entire €440 billion bailout fund - leaving nothing to spare to help the affected banks of Italy, Spain or France.

Allen Johnson on Robbie Perkins: "Green for the greenway"

"City funds for the Downtown Greenway
would have to be weighed against other priorities,
such as police officers and libraries.

Do we really need of more

of what amounts to very expensive free interenet cafes?

Why not set up some computors in existing city owned facilities?

Robbie Perkins sounded less cautious...

...Actually, he sounded really eager to get on with the greenway.

...I'd expect our leaders to be careful with the public's checkbook.

...it's a want and not a need.

When stacked other priorities in a tough economy,
it might have to wait.

Al

We need to get ready to drop tens of millions
on the Jordan Lake Rules.

We are going to have to fund the new police officers
hired on Federal Grants.

We recieved a $50 million unfunded post retirement benefit obligation

from the state last fiscal year.

Our tax revenues continue to fall.

Seems kind of hard to make the case for a greenway

on top of the landfill staying closed.

We also are having to put more into pension payments.

And another million and a half for the pool every year.

Who can get elected
if they don't promise everything all the voters want?

I remember you told me that once.

Did you hear that Wake and Mecklenberg Counties

got an exemption from the law that killed RUCO?

We are the third biggest city,

and those you are endorsing harmed poor renters,

and you don't call them out on it.

Greensboro's Police Department budget has been cut at least $2.6 million

over the last two years.

The landfill remains closed.

The Aquatic Center is open.

Our elected leaders have betrayed the safety of our community

for narrow political special interests.

Cost of the Iraq War through July 31, 2011: $704.6 billion

How did Greensboro City Council Member Robbie Perkins Get Front Row Seats With Duke as Team Host?

Please compare the Greensboro News & Record's portrayal of the same employment data, compared to what Bloomberg wrote: Who is lying?

Greensboro News & Record Editorial on the White Street Landfill from June 28, 2009

Campaign cash for Greensboro City Council At Large Candidates, except for Danny Thompson

Bill Knight cash on hand: $16,645.16 while Robbie only has $5,341.73?

Duke Power Has Rate Hike Meeting in Downtown High Point During Furniture Market , Are You Kidding Me?

 

HatTip  FOX 8 WGHP for above report.

 Duke Power has a scheduled meeting in downtown High Point on Oct. 27, 2011, at 7 p.m., High Point City Hall, Council Chambers, 211 South Hamilton St.   for meetings in regards to new rate hikes for the citizens of this state. Who is the numb nut who planned a meeting during the only time in downtown High Point where you will not be able to find a parking space anywhere and you also have roads closed all over the place because of the High Point Furniture Market. This must have been a good plan by Duke Power to have this meeting during the most inopportune time you could ever have in the Triad area of N.C. to have a meeting of this importance to residents all over this area.

Of all the places to have this meeting Duke Power had to pick High Point City Hall, we will see how many people will attend this meeting especially when parking in High Point at this time is very hard to come by . This meeting is on the tail end of market but the surrounding area of  City Hall is very hard to find a parking space. They should of had this meeting in Jamestown at the GTCC campus if they needed a venue that will not be in conflict with a huge event surrounding the City Hall of High Point.Thanks Duke Power on making this meeting at the worse possible.

White Street Landfill and ITG's White Oak Plant: Amanda Lehmert, David Hoggard, CICO and Jobs

"The International Textile Group could soon ask the city to give it more free methane gas
— a byproduct of the White Street Landfill...

Robbie Perkins' $1.65 million bright idea

"Concerns about a proposed $1.65 million land purchase by the city
that might alter the neighborhood character
and line the pockets of the city's most notorious landlord
have stalled an ambitious development plan.

Could alternative tactics increase wholeness in the near-term, if more other than actions coincident with geopolitical, economic events rise as a percentage of the overall you?

If short term geoecopolitical volatility and/or uncertainty increases,

could something other than potentially reduce harm,

stabilize and harmonize?

Robbie Perkins Living in Center Point with his other 1% Penthouse Suitemate Roy Carroll, Occupy Greensboro

TRIADWATCH Parody

Diving Championship will Bring a Whole $8 Dollars for Greensboro

Press release from the Greensboro Coliseum had this to say:

"The Greensboro Area Convention & Visitors Bureau estimates the AT&T National Diving Championships and Junior National and Age Group Championships will generate more than $8 in economic impact."

Wow, a whole $8 will be made from the diving championship. I know Henri Fourrier forgot to put a M  by the 8 to mean million but seeing this is pretty funny. Hopefully there will be a correction on this.

On George Hartzman's Simpkins PAC interview and the White Street Landfill with Skip Alston, Earl Jones, Alma Adams, Goldie Wells and Steve Bowden

On September 22, 2009, I attended an interview at 7:15pm with the Simkins PAC.

Attendance included Skip Alston, Earl Jones, Alma Adams, Goldie Wells, Steve Bowden and Diane Munden.

What about the ethics of the News & Record's "barter agreement" tickets?...Why not mention the N&R's Conflict of Interest?

Occupy Greensboro Can Look Up at The 1%, Check Out Roy Carroll's Penthouse

TRIADWATCH PARODY

It is fitting that the occupy greensboro citizens are in the eye shot of Roy Carroll's Centerpointe tax payer subsidized penthouse.

Billy Jones aka...

Zack Matheny and Redistricting: Did Matheny set himself up to win like Skip Alston did?

John Hammer on the White Street Landfill and Ulturnagen: July 30, 2009

Why would legitimate businesses offering good paying jobs,

looking to relocate to Greensboro,

want to move to a city that openly considers

what could eventually be massive tax increases?

Greensboro City Council Member Zack Matheny Wants Citizens To Buy Tickets, But His Are Free, any Ethical ?

During the Greensboro City Council meeting on 1-4-2011, at the end of the agenda when each council member gets time to talk about anything they wish to, Councilman Zack Matheny invited everyone to come to some family events that were going on at the Greensboro Coliseum.

In the above embedded clip, Zach talks of if attending the Ringling Brothers Circus, then "ALL NON CITY COUNCIL MEMBERS WILL HAVE TO PURCHASE TICKETS TO THIS EVENT".

Why did Zack Matheny have this to say about the circus?

It is because when Danny Thompson first was elected to council during their meeting last year, he said the following in the embedded clip.

"Free Tickets to the Circus Handed Out by Greensboro CIty Council Members, Is This Legal, Ethical or Conflict of Interest"

If you would like to see the post CLICKHERE




Then we have fellow TRIADWATCH blogger George Hartzman during a City council meeting exchange with Zack Matheny:





Here's another post titled "Part #2, Free Tickets at the Greensboro Coliseum, Did Sitting Council Member Get a Free Pass To The ACC Tournament? " CLICKHERE

Now we come full circle where a sitting councilman is admitting that he is getting free tickets to the circus and telling non council members that they have to buy their own tickets.

Does anybody see these free tickets for sitting council members as unethical?

Who is actually giving these tickets, and is it legal under state law?

Should freebees be reported?

How many other events are the sitting council members getting free tickets too that they are not telling us about?

If anyone is going to the coveted ACC Tournament this year, please inform the public of which sitting council members happen to be in audience, because it would be interesting to see if they paid the $400 or so dollars for a book to get into this tournament, or what other arrangments were made.

Free tickets to the Greensboro Coliseum to sitting council members needs to be off limits for plenty of reasons but it doesn't seem to bother our local politicians on this matter as seen from above.

I am having fun here: "Got a question for Monday's mayoral debate?"

http://www.news-record.com/blog/55771/entry/129567

Joe Killian who wishes he was Mark Binker and John Robinson on Skip Alston and CG4C

"It's no secret that the theme of the Tea Party
is that they want to take back their country,
which is only a code phrase for wanting to put blacks back in their places"

Guilford County Commissioner's chairman Melvin "Skip" Alston
while introducing Gov. Bev Perdue at the state NAACP convention

Shouldn't "take back their country" really apply to American Indians?

Robbie, Yvonne, Marykay, Nancy and Wayne top five precincts

.........Robbie......Yvonne..........Marykay......Nancy......Wayne
 
G74   352 ..........416...............217...............97.............50


G06 332 ............373............. 240............. 136........... 72

G05 277.............294............ 210...............130............ 75

G69 249........... 265............. 134.............. 108.............62

G73 236............284............. 110 ...............104........... 32

Greensboro Mayoral Primary Data for Robbie and Bill via Roch

Precinct, Robbie, Bill, for Precincts Robbie won

G&R's Doug Clark: "...we didn't create opposition to reopening the landfill." Did the Greensboro News & Record Manipulate the Election?

Did the Greensboro News & Record Manipulate the Election?

Why would the Greensboro News & Record Editorial Board
inject Race into the White Street Landfill Issue?

...we didn't create opposition to reopening the landfill.

Doug Clark

Doug Clark and Abner Doon on Jim Kee and C. Bradley Hunt II, and whether or not the Editorial Board should be accountable for their endorsements

Did Downtown Greensboro Inc. get $250,000 to fund $25,000 grants that will most likely benefit Downtown Greensboro Inc's members?

"...The Greensboro City Council uses the Greensboro Partnership to launder money...

Robbiehood , The Robbie Perkins Parody Continues

TRIADWATCH PARODY

Mayoral Candidate Robbie Perkins and Local Developer Roy Carroll , What The Future Holds for Greensboro.

TRIADWATCH PARODY Picture.

After seeing that the Triad Business Journal is doing their bidding for Roy Carroll to get his property shovel ready for over $4 million dollars in Greensboro bond money CLICKHERE  . Someone needs to point out the close relationship between local developer Roy Carroll and mayoral candidate Robbie Perkins as we see from this post before on TRIADWATCH titled "Greensboro City Council Member Robbie Perkins and Local Developer Roy Carroll are ethically challenged" CLICKHERE.



 Piedmont Triad International AirportLatest from The Business JournalsCounty will ask for state funding to support Honda expansionFortune names Allegiant 64th fastest growing companyHigh bids to delay GTCC’s Ca  Guilford Technical Community CollegeLatest from The Business JournalsHigh bids to delay GTCC’s Cameron CampusTriad, state community college instructor salaries falling shortGTCC wins
When we see Roy Carroll wanting this $4 million dollars in bond money we also need to be reminded as to who is Roy Carroll's leasing agent for plenty of these endeavors all over Greensboro from properties on elm street near the Super Wal Mart to the Center Pointe building downtown to the property off of Horse Pen Creek Road it is none other than NAI Piedmont Triad Commercial properties president and partner along with being a sitting Greensboro Council member and mayoral candidate Robbie Perkins.

Just this past week Triadwatch had a post where the $4 million in bond money for Roy Carroll was taken off the Greensboro City Council for the second time CLICKHERE but then in the Triad Business Journal article they are saying that it might be brought up next month making this the third time they want to bring this up to the Greensboro City Council. Mark my word that this proposal to give developer Roy Carroll over $4 million dollars in this bond money has been shopped around to all the sitting Greensboro City Council members and knew that Roy Carroll didn't have the votes for this to pass and you see how they have delayed this for the past few Greensboro City Council meetings and if we see this agenda item back up again in front of council it was already approved by a majority of council members before it ever made it to the agenda.

Anytime you see Roy Carroll doing business in front of council remember who his leasing agent is in Robbie Perkins.

It would be interesting to see if any local media outlet will do any investigative reporting to see just how close this relationship is because we already have Robbie Perkins texting him from council chambers all the way to China with this post titled "Greensboro City Council Member Robbie Perkins Text Messages to developer Roy Carroll during council meetings, any Ethical Questions? CLICKHERE

As you see from the parody picture above if Robbie Perkins becomes Mayor of Greensboro watch out the TREBIC CARTEL will be on cloud nine and Roy Carroll will have his own red line phone to the mayors office.

What does a community, of which many believe may contain corrupt business and government leadership, supply its community? "Guilford lost more jobs between 2005 and 2010 than any other county in the state — nearly 11,000."

"Guilford lost more jobs between 2005 and 2010
than any other county in the state — nearly 11,000.

...During that same time period, Wake County added nearly 30,000 jobs;
Mecklenburg gained more than 20,000.

Should we continue to reelect the same under performing leadership?

Such numbers will have long-term ramifications.

oc·cu·py (ky-p)

oc·cu·py (ky-p)

Jordan Green on Burckley, Vaughan and Matheny: Who told the truth - Zack or Nancy?

Did Nancy, Jim, Robbie, Dianne and Zack know the Jordan Lake Rules could cost the city $270 million, when they voted for a $19.5 million swimming pool?

"...Jordan Lake Rules, which, if they are enforced,
will cost the city about $70 million in the next couple of years,
and, down the road when storm water has to be handled,
will cost an amount estimated by the state at $200 million,
and estimated by the building industry in the billions.

It would require retrofitting neighborhoods with storm water detention ponds."

John

"Mayor Bill Knight and council members Mary Rakestraw, Trudy Wade and Danny Thompson
voted against the construction contract and the use of the hotel tax revenue.

...But in the end, council members
Nancy Vaughan, Jim Kee, Robbie Perkins,
T. Dianne Bellamy-Small and Zack Matheny
voted down that suggestion and approved the funding as originally passed.

...Resident Joe Guarino and other speakers argued that residents were misled.

“If you approve this proposal,
you would be making yourself a party to all the deception that has taken place,” Guarino said.

Bob Malekoff, a professor of sports studies at Guilford College,
urged the council to hold off on making a decision
until more information about the economic impact could be obtained.

He said it is difficult to accurately estimate the economic impact.

The $14 million suggested by local tourism officials is likely flawed or incomplete, he said.

Hill Carrow, who helped come up with that estimate,
said the economics could be debated.

But his suggested schedule of 12 major meets a year is solid , he said"

.

Amanda

On Zack Matheny's White Street Landfill conflict of interest issue.

"It’s unclear if the council will address the issue
of whether Councilman Zack Matheny has a conflict of interest in the discussion.

On Crony Capitalism

…As Americans, I believe we reject Communism because it historically has allowed a tiny group of people to consolidate complete control over national resources (including people), in the process stifling competition, freedom and choice.

…a culture of exploitation and a small powerbase formed by cronyism and nepotism are the hallmarks of a communist system that steals from its citizenry and a major reason why America spent half a century fighting a Cold War with the U.S.S.R.

And yet today we find ourselves as a country in two distinctly different categories: those who are forced to compete tooth and nail each day to provide value to society in return for income for ourselves and our families and those who would instead use our lawmaking apparatus to help themselves to our tax money and/or to protect themselves from true competition.

If you allow weak, outdated players to take control of the government and change the rules so they are protected from the natural competition and reward systems that have created so many innovations in our country, you not only steal from the citizens on behalf of the least worthy but you also doom them by trapping the capital that would be used to generate new innovation and, most tangibly in our current situation, jobs.

…those powerful individuals who have failed, been passed over by technological advancements, innovation and flat-out smarts, have commandeered our government to unfairly sustain their wealth and power.

Unfortunately, they use our wealth and laws…, but also spend a small pittance of their ill-gotten gains lobbying and favor-trading with politicians so the government will continue to protect them from competition and their well-deserved failure.

The massive spike in unemployment, the utter destruction of retirement wealth, the collapse in the value of our homes, the worst recession since the Great Depression have all resulted directly from the abdication of proper government.

Even with all that -- the only changes that have been made, have been made to prop up and hide the massive flaws on behalf of those who perpetuated them. Still utterly nothing has been done to disclose the flaws in this system, improve it or rebuild it. Only true rules-based capitalism ensures constant adaptation and implementation of the latest and best practices for a given business, as those businesses that don't adapt fail and those who deploy the latest innovations to their customers benefit, prosper.

The concept of Communism is rightly reviled in this country for the simple reason that it is blind to human nature, allowing a small group of individuals near-total control, while sticking everyone else with the same crappy systems -- and the bill. America spent countless lives and half a century fighting against this system of government...so why are we standing for it now?

Dylan Ratigan, Host of "Morning Meeting" on MSNBC, and "Freedom Talk" on WABC Radio

What is Crony Capitalism?

Crony capitalism is a pejorative term

describing an allegedly capitalist economy in which success in business

depends on close relationships between businesspeople

and government officials.

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It may be exhibited by favoritism in the distribution of legal permits,

government grants, special tax breaks, and so forth.

Crony capitalism is believed to arise

when political cronyism spills over into the business world;

self-serving friendships and family ties

between businessmen and the government influence the economy and society

to the extent that it corrupts public-serving economic and political ideals.

In its lightest form, crony capitalism consists of collusion among market players.

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While perhaps lightly competing against each other,

they will present a unified front to the government

in requesting subsidies or aid.

…it is not uncommon for current industry players

to gain control of the “watchdog” and use it against competitors.

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This phenomenon is known as regulatory capture.

A famous early example in the United States

would be the Interstate Commerce Commission,

which was established in 1887 to regulate the railroad “robber barons;”

instead, it quickly became controlled by the railroads,

which set up a permit system that was used to deny access to new entrants.

Crony Capitalism

Wikipedia

If Greensboro and Guilford County are infected with Crony Capitalism,
how can we fix our political system
to offer businesses looking to expand or relocate a level playing field?

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If there are nine Greensboro City Council members, and it takes five votes to move "Speakers from the floor" back to the beginning of meetings, how are they all not responsible?

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

If there are nine Greensboro City Council members,
and it takes five votes to move "Speakers from the floor" back to the beginning of meetings
who are the five or more that prefer speakers at the end of meetings,
and who are the few who have not brought it up very often?

Study: Voter Turnout in Rain

"That the weather affects voter turnout has long been held as a truism
of American presidential elections.

...we find the linkage not only to be statistically significant,
but sometimes meaningful as well.

...we find that voters seem to be rather sensitive
to what is presumably a minor increase in participation costs
—the weather.

Triad Business Journal October 7, 2011: "Carroll seeks $4M from Greensboro for shovel-ready site"

"Developer Roy Carroll is seeking the city’s help in preparing a large-scale,
shovel-ready site in eastern Guilford County
that economic development officials believe will help Greensboro
secure top-tier projects now passing it by.

Carroll is seeking at least $4 million of economic development bond funds
to help pay for grading and the extension of city services
to a 100-acre site at Knox Road and Interstate 40.

Not only is Allen Johnson and the Greensboro News & Record Editorial Board not calling out Bev Perdue on 'troubling" cronyism, they seem to refuse to acknoledge Roy Carroll's move to steal $4 million from Greensboro's taxpayers?

Cognitive dissonance is a discomfort

caused by holding conflicting ideas simultaneously.

The theory of cognitive dissonance proposes that people have a motivational drive

to reduce dissonance.

They do this by changing their attitudes, beliefs, and actions.

Dissonance is also reduced by justifying, blaming, and denying.

Wiki

"A proposed deal with Continental “reeked with cronyism,” [Sen. Phil Berger] said,
adding that “pay-to-play politics has cost our state more than 1,000 new jobs.”

Pulled Agenda Item #31 Local Developer and Crony Capitalist Roy Carroll

Wants $4,176,775 in Economic Incentive Grant and Loan

Owners of the Brunswick County property offered for the tire plant
included a Democratic state senator
and political supporters of the Democratic governor — certainly troubling.

...Last month, Berger raised larger objections
to paying $45 million in incentives demanded by the company — up front.

...This is a real concern associated with the secrecy
that typically surrounds economic development deals...

Perkins made his announcement surrounded by friends in the real-estate industry,

including developer Roy Carroll and lawyer Henry Isaacson.

“The realtors and the builders have been my base for my candidacy for 17-18 years,” Perkins said.

“In fact, before I even got into politics,

Trip Brown and I worked to get an organization together

that was the precursor of TREBIC way back when.

More openness is needed so it isn’t learned after the fact
that people with political connections profited from a multimillion-dollar land deal.

Except when it's inconvienient for the Editorial Board's interests?

Perdue soon fired back,
denying she played a role in site selection and accusing Berger of killing the deal
“because he thought the jobs were not worth it.”

Her position has support.

Really?

...alleging “cronyism” — without enough information to connect the dots
— risks poisoning the political atmosphere
and making it harder to work out future agreements.

The Greensboro News & Record "Crony" Editorial Board

If the City of Greensboro’s average employee salary is about $50,000...

On Greensboro's City Council Aquatic Center 5-4 Vote: Total Cost to taxpayers = $34,580,000

"The City Council approved a temporary financing method that will provide some of the funds for the $19 million [Aquatic Center] at the Greensboro Coliseum. And, like every other vote associated with the three-pool center, it was approved by the slimmest of margins.

$7 million @ 4% for 20.5 years = $12,740,000

if the $12 million is finananced @4% for 20.5 years = $21,840,000

Total Cost to taxpayers = $34,580,000

$760,000 in annual interest payments,

not counting principal repayment costs, operating costs or maintenence costs.

John Hammer on the implementation of a "Police State" in Downtown Greensboro

The term police state
describes a state in which the government exercises rigid and repressive controls
over the social, economic and political life of the population.

A police state typically exhibits elements of totalitarianism and social control,
and there is usually little or no distinction between the law
and the exercise of political power by the executive.

The inhabitants of a police state experience restrictions on their mobility,
and on their freedom to express or communicate political or other views,
which are subject to police monitoring or enforcement.

Wikipedia

"...District 3 Councilmember Zack Matheny held a press conference on Wednesday morning, Nov. 10, at city hall to introduce his plans for making the downtown safe...

Egotism is the anesthetic that dulls the pain of stupidity

Frank Leahy

[Rocco Scarfone's] ...changes are not going to be enough for Matheny,
...he said he wanted the city to show "zero tolerance for quality of life issues,"...

Sound Familiar? "Local Greensboro Developer Roy Carroll and His Plane Cannot Keep Out of the Spotlight with His Trip for Governor Bev Perdue"

HAT TIP RHINO TIMES and Carolina Journal CLICKHERE

Local Greensboro developer Roy Carroll and his airplane cannot keep itself out of trouble. The Carolina Journal in it's front page article titled "Dozens involved in Perdue, Easley flight provider program" has Roy Carroll listed as a person who has provided a plane ride to our Governor. Here is what was said:

"Roy Carroll, a Greensboro developer and owner of Granite Air LLC, provided a flight on November 6, 2008 - two days after Perdue was elected governor. The flight was valued at $887, and the Perdue Committee didn't pay for it until Dec. 16. No other information about this flight is available."

Did some "Downtown Stakeholders" use Zack Matheny and Greensboro's government to wage economic war against some "unwanted" businesses?

Ed Wolverton, [Downtown Greensboro Incorportated’s] president and CEO,
said the organization will continue to partner with the city and police department
to raise the safety level at night to that of the daytime.

Dioni L. Wise

"Regarding curfews,

Matheny said the issue came out of feedback

from downtown stakeholders

who say that minors who could not get into bars

are hanging out downtown until 2am.
.

Ryan SealsGreensboro News & Record

How could "downtown stakeholders"
not refer to the publicly funded Downtown Greensboro?

Notable Downtown Greensboro Contributors

Greensboro Partnership, $25,000.00

Highlights of a comment thread at Guarino's: Tony Wilkins, Abner Doon, Bubba, George Hartzman, Elizabeth, Roch, Ab, on Matheny, Ovittore and Greensboro's establishmentarianism

...it would need to be a very strong candidate to beat Matheny

with his incumbency, name recognition,

and his support from the Melderec con Simkins crowd.

Joe Guarino

News & Record's Doug Clark: "The underprivileged 99 percent"

"Wow. Underprivileged 99 percent.

I would be deeply embarrassed if one of my sons,
who are about the same age, had grown up with 1) this extreme lack of perspective
and 2) such an overinflated sense of entitlement.

...Most Americans are over privileged when compared to most of the rest of the world.

Due to entitlements paid for by borrowing

which is going to be charged to the following generations

including your kids?

And we don't even realize it.

Does Doug realize his sons are going to have to pay for the Aquatic Center?

Does Doug realize his sons are going to have to pay for their father's Social Security

after Doug's generation stole the surpluses since 1983?

How can someone with two college degrees
consider himself underprivileged when it's a privilege just to go to college?

Is it a privilege to graduate with $$$$$ of debt that current job openings

wont make affordable?

Is it a privilege for my kids to pay hundreds % more for education

than their parents did?

It shows how spoiled we've become
when we can't appreciate the opportunities we've been given.

To have had our kids future income taxes confiscated by Doug's generation

so the Baby Boomers could have a more pleasant present

by indenturing our children's future?

...My parents' generation certainly didn't have the privileges we enjoyed
and were able to pass on to our kids.

Is today's biggest generation leaving a better tomorrow for it's children?

...we have college-educated young people
who seem to expect someone else to take care of them.

Do we not have college-educated young people

who can't find jobs in their field of study

because the prior generation exported their jobs to maximize profits

at the expense of future Americans livelyhoods?

I don't think this conversation is really about the privileged and underprivileged at all.

I think it's about givers and takers.

Some people want those who have succeeded to give more
so they can take more.

How is this not hypocritical Doug,

if many who have "succeeded" did so by borrowing more than can be repaid

during their lifetimes?

Doug "Cognitive Dissonance" Clark

David Hoggard on Robbie Perkins and RUCO: How is Greensboro's press not covering up Robbie Perkins' blatent lies?

David Hoggard,

Did or did Robbie not screw poor renters state wide or not?

George Hartzman

Yes he did.

David Hoggard | September 29, 2011 at 09:15 PM

A Greensboro Election Linkfest
I Emailed to Several Members of North Carolina's Press:
Perkins, Jordan Green, Matheny, Allen Johnson, TREBIC,
Cardes Brown, John Hammer, Amanda Lehmert,
Guarino and Bev Perdue

Did Yes Weekly's Jordan Green
just let Robbie off the hook for RUCO because he appears to be the lesser evil?

If Robbie Perkins was actually for RUCO, why did he vote to eliminate inspections?

"Donna Newton, advisor to the Greensboro Neighborhood Congress,
said proponents of the city’s Rental Unit Certificate of Occupancy, or RUCO program
had already compromised two years ago.

Which Robbie Perkins voted for.

“We have already compromised when we went from full-on inspections to sampling,” she said.

Which Robbie Perkins voted for.

“A ‘trust-me’ system – ‘we’re going to do everything right,
and everything’s going to be fine’ – is not believable.”

Jordan

Did Yes Weekly's Jordan Green just let Robbie off the hook for RUCO because he appears to be the lesser evil?

"Ms. Dellinger [Koury] moved to eliminate 2% sampling on multifamily property,

seconded by Mr. Sims.

The vote was tied 6-6.

(Ayes: Dellinger, Nelson, Placentino, Chaney, Sims, Perkins.

Nays: Akin, Rotruck, Cannon, Giles, Tuck, Smith.)

The vote died due to lack of a majority."

MINUTES OF THE GREENSBORO RENTAL UNIT COA

ADVISORY AND APPEALS BOARD REGULAR MEETING

OCTOBER 14, 2010

"Perkins has said that he got into city politics
through his involvement with an organization
that was a forerunner to the Triad Real Estate and Building Industries Coalition,
or TREBIC.

Greensboro News & Record Editorial Board's Historical Revisionism of Jim Kee, or intentional misleading of Greensboro's voting public?

Jim Kee...Speaking against a motion to award a contract
that would reopen the White Street Landfill to household waste,
...turned the tables on two of the supporters.

White Street Landfill Flashback III: Cico and Jim Kee

White Street Landfill, Jim Kee, Bob Mays, Paul Gilmer, Danny Thompson,

John Hammer and Amanda Lehmert

How to completely destroy Downtown Greensboro, by Zach Matheny?

Stupidity is better kept a secret than displayed

Heraclitus of Ephesus

"Councilman Zack Matheny announced several plans
...designed to give police effective tools to maintain order downtown

“It’s vital to the residents of Greensboro that we take the necessary and serious steps
to improve the downtown environment
so that everyone can enjoy themselves in a safe atmosphere,” Matheny said.

“These measures promote not only public safety,
but will hold downtown businesses accountable for the actions of their visitors.”

Among the changes...:

Zero tolerance for quality of life infractions that occur in downtown;
that includes cracking down on loitering, panhandling and other disruptive behavior.

Anyone want to frequent a behavior regulated zone
where citizens can be ticketed or arrested
for something someone like Nurse Crotchet may think is uncouth?

On which political candidates Bill Burckley has worked for

"...Burckley has advised, researched and designed campaigns
for county Commissioners Billy Yow and Melvin “Skip” Alston
and for state Rep. Alma Adams.

He said last week that he was working for six candidates in this year’s City Council elections,
including incumbents Trudy Wade, Mary Rakestraw and Zack Matheny;
at-large candidate Nancy Vaughan; and mayoral candidate Bill Knight.

...Vaughan declined to comment about the arrest
because she was not aware of the details.
“Bill has a good strategic mind,” Vaughan said.

“I don’t know what went on (Tuesday) night.”

Amanda

Should you question those with less to lose, who may think you have what they need, who may be saying what you want to hear, while urging you to do what they don’t want to or wont?

Looking at small advantages

prevents great affairs from being accomplished.

Confucius

If TREBIC tried to kill RUCO and failed, and then went after the entire state of North Carolina, with the same tactics deployed in Greensboro, if more people die, shame on anyone who to voted to kill more people?

All warfare is based on deception.

…when able to attack we must seem unable,

when using our forces we must seem inactive,

when we are near, we must make the enemy believe we are far…,

when far away, we must make him believe we are near.

Sun Tzu

 
"...members of the real estate industry
have consistently contributed one out of every three dollars
received by victorious city council candidates.

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

…why did the Greensboro Partnership, a Trebic member,
give Downtown Greensboro $25,000 in 2009?http://www.downtowngreensboro.net/DGI-Funddrivedonors-2009-2010.html

Better is a little with righteousness

than great income with injustice.

Proverbs 16:8

"Excerpts from an Eight Hour, CPA CPE Workshop, for Greensboro City Council Candidates" sent to all running for City of Greensboro City Council

"What to Do Now"

Piedmont Triad Partnership Notable Board of Directors

Jon BellBell Partners Inc.
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

Why did the Triad Apartment Association support 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
and who they contributed to.

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

Why did Zack Matheny wait until after the 2009 pre-election report to account for his Greensboro Landlords Association PAC donation?

Committee to Elect Zack Matheny

10/20/09 to 12/31/09, Page 7 of 12, contribution dated 10/23/09


Greensboro’s Landlords Association PAC Contributions

9/23/09 to 10/19/09, PDF Page 5 of 7, dated 10/14/09


Notable Matheny 2009 Campaign Contributors

Who gets what on the White Street Landfill?

Greensboro property owners:
Are you willing to pony up $12.50 per year to keep the White Street Landfill closed?

A Greensboro Election Linkfest I Emailed to Several Members of North Carolina's Press: Perkins, Jordan Green, Matheny, Allen Johnson, TREBIC, Cardes Brown, John Hammer, Amanda Lehmert, Guarino and Bev Perdue

If Robbie Perkins supported RUCO,
why would he vote to eliminate sampling inspections
of multifamily properties?

Who did Greensboro’s Landlords Association PAC donate campaign cash to in 2009, and who did they want to castrate RUCO?

Nancy Vaughn

Robbie Perkins

If Robbie wanted to save and support RUCO,

why would the Landlords PAC give him money?

Zack Matheny

Zack Matheny in 2009: Did Zack Matheny lobby North Carolina's State Congress to eliminate RUCO and anything like it for his employers and campaign contributors?

"As it relates to RUCO, I believe Greensboro, North Carolina is above average
on what we’re doing throughout the state of North Carolina.

UPDATE UPDATE: Local Developer Roy Carroll Wants $4,176,775 in Economic Incentive Grant and Loan Is Officially Pulled from Greensboro City Council Meeting

UPDATE UPDATE:

The below the fold blog post was from last month where you will see a agenda item being postponed till next month which is now. We see in this week's current agenda with attachments  for the City of Greensboro where item #20 had this to say in BOLD WORDS

Resolution authorizing Economic Development Incentive Grant and Loan, not to exceed the amnount of $4,176,775 in total, to Land Port Investments, LLC. to be funded by appropriating up to $4,176,775 of voter approved Economic Development Bond funds. (no attachment) This item was postponed from the 9/13 meeting of Council without further advertising. COUNCIL IS BEING REQUESTED TO REMOVE THE ITEM FROM THE AGENDA TO BE READVERTISED FOR A PUBLIC HEARING AT A LATER DATE.

There are so many angles to look at this situation and the most obvious is to wonder if we will see as reported below the fold our local Crony Capitalist Roy Carroll will give campaign money to plenty of our local elected officials and some who are vying for a seat in the upcoming eleactions knowing that this item has been brought up in front of the Greensboro City Council last month and now will get readvertised at a later date probably once the new Greensboro City Council gets sworn in.

 It is not illegal to give campaign contributions to local elected officials even when you have business in front of the city but it sure is unethical to see this happening on a local level. We should have a rule that if you do business with the city or have contracts with the city or county then you will be barred from any contributions for a 2 year period before and after the item comes in front of the elected officials.

Will we see the local Greensboro News and Record do any reporting of this situation?
Do situations like this right before a municipal election raise questions?
Could we see any new laws barring campaign contributions from people who have business with local municipalities?

We will see where this goes but it is interesting to see them after a month take this item off the agenda for good and hopefully not put any more money in local developer Roy Carroll's pockets.


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Is Greensboro’s City Council censoring public speech?

Power in America…,
is control of the means of communication.

Theodore White
Political Journalist

I Am Having Fun Here

http://guarino.typepad.com/guarino/2011/09/does-zack-matheny-have-a-napoleon-complex.html#tp

Yvonne Johnson

If you choose not to know something,

especially if that something is something you should know,

you are morally blameworthy.

Robert P. Lawry

Director of the Center for Professional Ethics

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Matheny on misleading: Greensboro City Council Member Zack Matheny Did Receive Free Tickets To Greensboro Coliseum Video Embedded

"He says the council has been a poster child for transparency in government," Matheny said.

"I would say Danny is the poster child for misleading the citizens."

Joe Killian

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