Dear Ben Bernanke; Don't steal from my kids?

The Fed did the Europeans a favor.

Joseph Gagnon

former Fed official

"The central banks of the wealthiest countries,
trying to prevent a debt crisis in Europe
from exploding into a global panic,
swept in ...by making it easier
...to borrow American dollars.

With what money from where?

Ron Paul: "...on the Fed's Continued Euro Bailout"

Jordan Green with a taste of who gave how much campaign cash to whom, minus the final reports, which are usually revealing

"Well-heeled donors poured thousands of dollars
into campaign contributions to candidates
for Greensboro City Council this past year.

"is this some giant giveaway to profligate Europeans of US taxpayer money?"

"Central Banks to the Rescue?

...what does the coordinated action actually do?

From 2003

Most decisions are generally based on current thoughts.

Sometimes thoughts are opinions.

"He is able who thinks he is able."

-Buddha

Sound familiar, only different?

"Congress limited the size of pensions the PBGC can pay for, so AMR retirees should expect their pensions to be dramatically cut"

"Retirees of American Airlines parent AMR Corp.
could lose $1 billion in benefits
if the bankrupt carrier decides to end its four pension plans...

AMR's pension plans cover almost 130,000 participants,
but collectively had just $8.3 billion in assets
to cover about $18.5 billion in benefits...

"Tauzin’s $11.6 Million Made Him Highest-Paid Health-Law Lobbyist"

"Billy Tauzin,
the former congressman turned pharmaceutical industry lobbyist,
was paid $11.6 million in 2010,
the year he brokered a deal with President Barack Obama
that helped pass the health-care overhaul.

Dear WFMY; Please Stop the Plagiarism: Hat Tip Roch

Dear Don Jud, Bryan School of Business & Economics, UNCG;

If Total Employment in Guilford County was 219,200 in September 2011,
and the unemployment rate was 11.1%
and Total Employment in Guilford County was 217,200 in September 2010,
with unemployment at 10.4%,
and 217,200 divided by 219,200 = .99, or about a 1% difference,
why did the unemployment rate rise by about 6.3%?

John Hammer: "City [of Greensboro] Wants To Know Where Its Money Is" from Guilford County, with a little Skip Alston hotel history

"How much money is in the joint city county water and sewer fund
and where did the interest on the money go?

...despite the fact that Guilford County sent the city
a five-inch thick stack of paperwork about the fund,
[Rashad Young] still didn't have the information he needed
to determine how much was in the fund.

And the county won't say,
even though it is a joint fund
and half of the money belongs to Greensboro.

To do righteousness and justice

is more acceptable to Yahweh than sacrifice.

Proverbs 21:3

Citizens Against Government Waste: Greensboro Coliseum Edition

CLICKHERE  to check out page 153 of 159 in the current agenda with attachment for the City of Greensboro, where we have on 10-10-2011 with fund name;

War Memorial Coliseum Complex
check number#296396
Vendor name:  Ovations Food Service
description:Catering Service for Aquatic Center opening
total bill= $10,122.25

Maybe getting this item itemized would get interesting for Matt Brown and his fiefdom.

This will get our local award for Citizens Against Government Waste the Triadwatch edition.

"Time Runs Short for Europe to Resolve Debt Crisis"

"The endgame for Europe is fast approaching.

...What’s left for Europe are two likely options:
either it splits apart or it binds closer together.

A Comment Deleted and then put back by the "Man" at a New York Federal Reserve Blog Post

Experience shows that what happens

is ...the thing against which one has not made provision

in advance.

John Maynard Keynes

"The excuse that most other professional forecasters
didn’t foresee
it is just that, an excuse.

Naked Capitalism's Yves Smith on the news out of Europe and the Cognitive Dissonance of the Political Elite

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

"...the news reports seem more anesthetized
than shellshocked.

Forbes on Europe

Mauldin on China, Japan and India

NYT on Europe etc...

Telegraph via T: "Prepare for riots in euro collapse" - Pay Attention?

If most were to comprehend
the “realities” of what may actually be,
as opposed to what most currently think is,
an entirely different set of counterintuitive circumstances
could emerge.

Effectiveness through understanding

could be exponential,

as long as most continue to not know

what they could.

The end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started

and know the place for the first time.

T. S. Eliot

"British embassies in the eurozone
have been told to draw up plans to help British expats
through the collapse of the single currency,
amid new fears for Italy and Spain.

George Carlin on Advertising: Hat Tip Naked Capitalism

http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/

Accounting and Auditing Ethics

Thanksgiving History Timeline

"May 23, 1541: Francisco Vásquez de Coronado
and the Teya Indians have a feast in Palo Duro Canyon in Texas
to celebrate his expedition's discovery of food supplies.

Many people consider this
to be the first true North American Thanksgiving.

Hppay Tnivigsknahg

HAPPY THANKSGIVING SARAH PALIN STYLE

"Matheny: Let's give more OT cash to cops" If keeping the White Street Landfill closed costs the City of Greensboro about $7 million per year...?

"Councilman Zack Matheny will ask his colleagues to support
an extra $100,000 for police department in December.

If $7 million divided by 12 months is $583,333,

where will the money come from

if City Council Members voted to fund a budget

by spending millions more than the city recieved

in tax revenues?

Peter Tchir on CDS, Fannie and Freddie, FHA, EIB, EFSF, IMF, Super Committee, Germany etc...

Must Read: Hussman Mash Up on Europe, Inflation, Money Printing, Italy, Greece, ECB, EFSF Etc...

"...we've heard all sorts of propositions
that the European Central Bank (ECB) "must" begin printing money
to bail out Italy and other countries, because "there is no other option."

TEXAS-City Voters Overwhelmingly Approve Moving Public Notices out of Newspaper!!

TEXAS-City Voters Overwhelmingly Approve Moving Public Notices out of Newspaper!!

Submitted by FreePublic on 12 November 2011 - 5:53pm

The citizens of Pflugerville, Texas voted in 6 referenda which change their city charter to allow the publishing of public notices on line instead of in newspapers, the Pflugerville Pflag reported . The votes to change the charter all passed by over 75% saving the town useless expense in paying for notices in the newspaper. Certain notices will no longer be published in the newspaper. If an ordinance is passed that imposes a penalty or fine, the town no longer must post the notice in the newspaper. It may post it on a web site. Other ordinances that that grant, renew, extend or amend a public utility franchise.

Politicians are supposed to represent the people. Yet how come when the same issues are placed before our elected officials , the results are opposite of when those same votes are put before the people for a referendum? Elected officials are scared to take on the newspapers. We all wonder why our politicians are not trusted.

This is the second instance in a week that the people have spoken. The people of the city of Lafayette, Colorado voted in a similar change to their City charter by a large margin. Nice to see that the citizens are being responsible in handling the spending of their own taxes.

China Purchasing Manager's Index

http://www.markiteconomics.com/MarkitFiles/Pages/ViewPressRelease.aspx?ID=8816

"So the IMF move is just a backdoor bailout"

North Carolina Gross Public Debt

Rosie on Italy and Lamhen: "It's not exactly the same but it sure is similar.

"In both cases we had entities
that were wholly reliant on capital markets
for their funding needs.

...Once confidence is lost, it can be difficult to restore it.

In the case of Italy, it has over $500 billion of maturing debt
to roll over in the next two years
and $800 billion through 2014.

Doing so at current near-7% yield levels
will deal a punishing blow to debt- service costs
and make it next to impossible to meet ...fiscal targets
...rendering this a classic Catch-22 situation.

The difference is Lamhen had $150 billion in bonds outstanding
while Italy has $2.5 trillion.

...unlike Greece, Italy is just too big to rescue.

And it can't print money to cover its debts
and has no ability to devalue its currency
to bolster competitiveness and export receipts.

The magnitude of the financing requirement is such
that Italy is going to have to hold bond auctions
just about every week for as long as the eye can see,
and the odds of having them fail are not trivial.

It is hard to believe that Italy
will ultimately escape a restructuring of its own.

...global policy makers this time around
have far fewer bullets in the chamber
to deal with the situation as they did in late-2008/early-2009.

The Germans ...have good reason to recall 1923
and everything that followed.

This is something that people outside of Germany
simply do not understand
— the scars are felt more deeply there
and they will not choose to monetize the debts.

The ECB knows better than that too...

"...the average profit margin ...has declined by up to 40% compared to the same period last year"

On the Eurozone and Germanic subsidisation

"...Since its inception,
the Eurozone has been a gigantic German subsidy machine.

Henry Bloget: "The Run On Europe Begins"

Think, Need, Want & Happiness

I doubt, therefore I think,

therefore I am.

René Descartes

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--A new poll finds that in America, conservatives outnumber liberals 2-to-1

--Scientists in Japan have invented a motorcycle that is powered by a toilet

--Radio host Stephanie Miller called the recent vandalism of a Ronald Reagan statue one of America's funniest liberal pranks

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Occupy Tea: "More Than 500 Injured...in Renewed Protests "

"...security forces blocked roads leading to the interior ministry
to stop the protesters from advancing to the ministry’s building,
and at least nine policemen were injured...
Security forces used tear gas and rubber bullets...

Money, Politics & Occupy Tea

Governments cannot create but merely redirect.

When the government spends,
the money has to come from somewhere.

If the government doesn't have a surplus,
then it must come from taxes.

If taxes don't go up,
then it must come from increased borrowing.

If lenders won't lend,
then it must come from the printing press...

each additional dollar printed
diminishes the value of those already in circulation.

Something cannot be effortlessly created from nothing.

Peter Schiff

Think = Chess

A metaphor.

If there are 9,183,421,888 ways to play the first nine moves,
9,417,681 the first six, 72,078 the first four, 5,362 the first three,
and 20 to play the first, are early moves more important than later?

Excerpts from an Eight Hour, CPA CPE Workshop I

Have many betrayed their children’s future,

by indenturing offspring to finance a more pleasant present?

Guilford County's "FY 2012 – 2021 CAPITAL INVESTMENT PLAN UPDATE": Is Guilford County masking unsustainable debt increases with false assumptions?

"The Guilford County Capital Investment Plan (CIP) for FY 2012–2021
totals $638,076,174.

On Germany during the hyperinflation of the early 1920's and current events

"Over most of Germany
the lead was beginning to disappear overnight from roofs.

Petrol was syphoned from the tanks of motor cars.

Barter was already a usual form of exchange;
but now commodities such as brass and fuel
were becoming the currency of ordinary purchase and payment.

A cinema seat cost a lump of coal.

October Forclosures in Guilford County: 394, up from 261 in September, during which 306 homes sold

Ron Paul on the present

"Nothing has been solved
...by offering up the productivity of Americans as a sacrificial lamb.

Mayor Robbie Perkins Already Lying To The Public With Interview on News 2

HAT TIP NEWS 2 DIGTRIAD

Soon to be Mayor of Greensboro Robbie Perkins is already trying to manipulate the process by lying to the public in a interview with News 2  video embedded above. CLICKHERE to a link to the online report with a title"Greensboro Mayor Elect Robbie Perkins Talks About City's Future" In the online post this is what he is lying about :

"When it comes to the White Street landfill situation, Perkins said, "we ought to tell the manager to save us some money and come up with a way to help with solid waste that doesn't including opening White Street and look at regional solutions."
Perkins added High Point is five years away from being out of space and Winston-Salem is about 13 years. So he believes the area is prime for finding a solutino together."

As you can see we have Mayor Perkins trying to say to the public in this interview that High Point N.C. is 5 years away from being out of space when it comes to landfill capacity . It took one call to the High Point Public Services Assistant Director in Richard McMillan to make Mayor Perkins fact on High Point trash become a complete false statement because Richard McMillan stated to me that the High Point landfill has 3 other phases to go and the life of the landfill in High Point is over 25 plus years left.

These are the type of statements that if stated enough will become fact but are complete falsehoods by politicians like Mayor Perkins but we need a local media who will ask the tough questions or to do a little research into these statements to make sure they are correct. One call did it for this blogger and hopefully we will see a retraction of the mayors statement on talking about regionalism and other municipalities .

We are not even one week into this new era in Mayor Perkins of Greensboro and already he is lying to the public in this interview. This will be a fun 2 years if these are the statements coming out of the mayor's mouth.

The following...

Zugswang

Zugzwang is when a chess player at a disadvantage

is forced to choose between two or more moves,

all of which end in a severely weakened position.

Mark Hartzman

Should somebody give Jordan Green a journalism award for his reporting on this?

It’s hard to cry over spilt milk.

If the state legislature decides

they’re going to put a program out of business,

then they’ve got the authority to do that."

Robbie Perkins

Amanda Lehmert on what's next for rental inspections

John Mauldin on Europe: Listen up City of Greensboro and Guilford County

John Hammer on the Simkins PAC, Purchased Endorsements, and Greensboro's City Council Election results.

"...All eight candidates endorsed by the powerful
George C. Simkins Jr. Memorial Political Action Committee,
which is called the Simkins PAC, or just "the PAC,"
won on Tuesday night.

Two years ago seven of eight candidates
endorsed by The Rhinoceros Times won.

When you look at the vote totals
for the predominantly black precincts in east Greensboro
where the Simkins PAC endorsement letter is circulated,
it's hard to see how anyone endorsed by the Simkins PAC can lose.

...The Simkins PAC endorsed eight candidates for the City Council
and all eight won.

Didn't the Greensboro News & Record finish eight for nine,

only because they couldn't endorse TDBS?

Chairman of the Simkins PAC Steve Bowden,
...said the successful message of the Simkins PAC was,
"Stop the divisiveness."

Didn't Steve Bowden serve on three committees

including the taxpayer funded Greensboro Partnership

that gave money to the 1/4 cent tax increase initiative?

But it is hard to see how an all-black group
that endorses candidates who pay a fee for the endorsement
and sends its endorsements to voters
in predominantly black precincts is ending divisiveness.

How much did who pay the Rhino times for political advertising,

and how is that different from what the Simkins PAC did

relative to who gave the Rhino how much?

The Simkins PAC endorsement letter
was being handed out at polls in east Greensboro,
but once you crossed the imaginary line into west Greensboro
you didn't see anyone handing out Simkins PAC endorsement letters.

John

Scott Yost on PART: Why did MV Transportation terminate the contract?

"...the Guilford County commissioners
...voted unanimously to offer the county's $5 million annual transportation contract
to the Piedmont Authority for Regional Transportation (PART)...

Mary Rakestraw on the incoming Greensboro City Council

Awsome City Council election comment thread with John Robinson, Joe Guarino and Spagnola

On demanding nothing and...

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Orson Scott Card on Greensboro's election and the White Street Landfill

WOW

What does Allen Johnson, Doug Clark and Robin Saul of Greensboro's paper of record say after an intentionally manipulated election, "Don't mention the $40 million plus the city has lost, or the $7 million annual loss going forward?

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Dear Greensboro and Guilford County: "Property Tax Receipts Are Going Negative, And Local Finances Will Be A "Renewed" Source Of Weakness

 

Ongoing Conversations with News & Record Executives: Signs, Election, etc..., and some other GN&R links that may be of interest

Mayor Robbie Perkins Congrats and It Will Be A Fun 2 Years of Triadwatch Blogging For Example

and

and

and

and

and

Fun with John Robinson

I believe all City Council Contenders should go downtown tomorrow night...

After the game,

the king and pawn go into the same box.

Italian proverb

We are all Greensboro

Life is a kind of chess in which we have often points to gain,

competitors or adversaries to contend with,

and in which there is a vast variety of good and ill events…

By playing at chess…we may learn foresight, circumspection and caution.

Benjamin Franklin

Could living for the moment
be the only way to live happily ever after?

We are never so happy nor so unhappy as we imagine.

La Rochefoucauld

If positive thought outperforms negative,
can faith in open doors be better than fearing them closed?

I am he as you are me

and we are all together.

John Lennon and Paul McCartney

Do the most good, in the best way, with as many people
for as long as possible.

Don’t cry because it's over.

Smile because it happened.

Dr Seuss

Forget what you give, value what you get,
return what you borrow, replace what you break,
and forgive quickly.

The true measure of a man

is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.

Samuel Johnson

Have as much fun as soon as possible,
with the least amount of risk, for as long as you can.

If the RUCO Advisory Board was stacked with Robbie Perkins' associates, why wouldn't he vote against their recommendations, knowing that his political campaign backers and TREBIC, which his company funds, would vote to kill RUCO, leaving Robbie the East Greensboro Vote?

Pre election unanswered City of Greensboro Information Request, not answered since September 26, 2011

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,
...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 related political contributors
who make money on taxpayer funded City of Greensboro business contracts 

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

is City of Greensboro staff inhibiting transparency

before a City Council election to create a particular outcome?

Should Greensboro News Industry employees who can influence “unbiased” news reporting, serve on committees that advocate for increased taxpayer indebtedness, with registered lobbyists?

Should the Greensboro News and Record
be involved with the Downtown Area Consolidated Plan Committee

and the taxpayer funded Greensboro Partnership?

John Hammer on Robbie Perkins, Mayor Knight, Jim Kee, Small and the White Street Landfill

W.E. Heasley on how Greensboro and Guilford County taxpayers are milked by our political and business elite

"The "1/4 cents makes sense" organization
wanted the additional revenue to fund activities X.

Bellamy-Small and Hardy: A comparison of endorsements from the Carolina Peacemaker, Yes Weekly and the GN&R

"Bellamy-Small, 59, also is an enigma who can be brooding,
distant and unresponsive.

Hardy, 35, ...takes similar positions as Bellamy-Small on most of the issues
but prefers addressing them with a more open, collaborative style.

...A finance manager by trade,
Hardy rightly suggests that such an approach
would benefit economic development in District 1,
which has traditionally lacked many of the amenities
that are givens in other parts of the city.

He says more young professionals like him and his wife
are consciously choosing to live in east Greensboro.

Bellamy-Small, on the other hand, is a study in contradictions.

She makes myriad public appearances
but at times can be nearly impossible to reach.

She is notorious for not returning telephone calls
and sometimes agrees to answer media questions only by faxes or email.

She initially filed to run for mayor before withdrawing
and filing to run instead for re-election in her district.

The only explanation she provided was in a letter to a local weekly,
the Carolina Peacemaker,
that spoke in vague generalities and left largely unclear
the reasoning behind her decision.

Attempts to reach her at the time for further explanation were fruitless;
neither of her two phone numbers had working voice mail.

Some constituents cite similar frustrations with reaching her,
and fellow council members of all political stripes
have at times found her off-putting and difficult."

Greensboro News & Record

T. Dianne Bellamy- Small - INCUMBENT

She has been a voice of reason on the council

amid a flurry of fellow council members

who have systematically ignored the concerns of hard working, t

ax-paying east Greensboro residents.

Bellamy-Small is unbossed and unbought

and that’s how we like our political leaders.

Carolina Peacemaker

"Bellamy-Small satisfies a number of our criteria for a council member,
she refuses to return our calls regardless of the subject
— an unacceptable practice for a public official,
and a dealbreaker when it comes to our endorsement.

Challenger Donnell "DJ" Hardy has big shoes to fill,
but we are confident that he will rise to the challenge.

We are attracted to a number of his economic ideas
that draw from what has worked for other cities
rather than betting everything
on attracting outside businesses through incentives,
which has led to mixed results.

Hardy is a team player but not at the cost of abandoning his district’s needs,
while Bellamy-Small approaches council as a lone ranger prepared for a battle.

Hardy may have some fights ahead of him as well,
but we expect he will attempt to find the middle ground
between other council members and propose forward-thinking solutions.

On the campaign trail, Hardy has repeatedly spoken of his aim
for an “urban renaissance” in Greensboro,
and his interest in supporting entrepreneurs
through a venture capital fund that would support 10 start-up businesses annually
out of which two would hopefully have staying power.

Hardy’s challenge is to be more transparent and communicative
than his predecessor."

Yes Weekly

Day before Election Linkfest: Still no answers from Ed Cone, Tony Wilkins or Allen Johnson

Still having fun here

$449,511.19 Wasteful Spending of Taxpayer Money on Public Notices in Paid Print Media

Ever wondered if some Greensboro Political races were rigged
by those who want to keep undisclosed taxpayer subsidies?

Guess who “generally” meets on a monthly and “likely” quarterly basis?

"Downtown Area Consolidated Plan Committees

The Core Team will be responsible for managing and directing the planning process.

Members represent major economic stakeholders
will thoroughly examine and develop specific draft proposals
and recommendations.

The group will also serve to lead advocacy efforts to implement projects from the plan into the future.

The Society of Professional Journalists Code of Ethics Preamble

The last time the local bloggers and press couldn't answer some simple questions, so the issues were ignored as the public went on uninformed of what is actually happening

What does Greensboro's electorate know about what is actually happening?

“You shall not bear false witness against your neighbor.”

Exodus 20:13

Do they know which Greensboro City Council members
fraudulently sold a $20 million swimming pool to the electorate
to put some of the 99%'s heads on the 1%'s beds down the street?

Do they know which Council members put renters more at risk
by transfering rental water and sewer liabilities from the 1% to the 99%
that will now cost Greensboro's taxpayers more than $500,000 per year?

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

Does Greensboro electorate know which people they are voting for
eliminated proactive inspections on student rental properties?

If they can get you asking the wrong questions,

they don't have to worry about answers.

Thomas Pynchon

Do they know about the $50 million obligation
for unfunded retirement liabilities was just dropped in the city's lap
that no one seems to mention
as they make promises that cost more money?

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

Do they know Greensboro is sitting on a $300 million
pile of cash
that some City Council members want to spend
to make themselves a legacy with
with other people's money?

Were white northern college students enlisted for voter registration drives,
only after murders of black civil rights volunteers
went relatively unreported by law enforcement and news organizations?

Do they know they may be reelecting leadership
with the worst track record for bringing in new jobs
of any large city in North Carolina?

If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it,

people will eventually come to believe it.

The lie can be maintained only for such time

as the State can shield the people

from the political, economic and/or military consequences.

Joseph Goebbels

Dear Tony Wilkins: Did Matheny and Perkins stack the RUCO Board?

Please tell the truth Fec

You do not become a ‘dissident’
just because you decide one day to take up this most unusual career.

You are thrown into it by your personal sense of responsibility,
combined with a complex set of external circumstances.

You are cast out of the existing structures
and placed in a position of conflict with them.

It begins as an attempt to do your work well,
and ends with being branded an enemy of society.

…He does not attempt to charm the public.

He offers nothing and promises nothing.

He can offer, if anything, only his own skin
—and he offers it solely because he has no other way
of affirming the truth he stands for.

His actions simply articulate his dignity as a citizen,
regardless of the cost.

Vaclav Havel via Fec

I, George Hartzman, Call on Greensboro Editorial Board Members Robin Saul, Allen Johnson and Doug Clark to Correct what is Most Likely an Intentional Misrepresentation in the Greensboro News & Record Mayorial Endorsement

Perkins supports...a proactive policy for rental-unit inspections...

which was overturned last summer in the General Assembly.

Lying liars lying about Robbie Perkins and RUCO

Mayoral Candidate Robbie Perkins and Local Crony Capitalist Roy Carroll There is more to Discover

Bill O'Neill from WXII News Channel 12 did a segment on the candidates for Mayor of Greensboro. Here is a link to the video CLICKHERE . In the video at around the 1:12 mark, 1:24 mark and the 2:02 mark you will see Robbie Perkins working at his desk or work desk. Online it states that the company Robbie Perkins is a partner at is located at 101 west friendly avenue which is the Bank of America building but a closer look from the video clearly you can see from the office window that this office is located in the Center Point building owned by local crony capitalist Roy Carroll. At the 2:02 mark you can see the tower from the west market street united methodist church building which looks like it is across the street from the building Robbie Perkins is getting interviewed from.

Nobody wants to talk about this relationship between Robbie Perkins and local developer Roy Carroll than me and it is time this conflict gets more scrutiny because as we see in this video it looks like robbie perkins is lying about where his company is located because in video it looks like a office in Roy Carroll's building not at 101 west friendly avenue.

Robbie Perkins and Rolls Royce Parody

Robbie Perkins and Rolls Royce Parody
by: nogordongecko



TRIADWATCH PARODY

What George Hartzman almost finished saying to Guilford County's Commissioners Thursday night

Notable members of the 1/4-Cent Makes Sense Steering Committee include Patrick Danahy, President and Board Member of the taxpayer funded TREBIC MEMBER Greensboro Partnership, 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 board members include Linda Shaw and Nancy Vaughan who wanted City of Greensboro to fund 75% of a federal lobbyist to benefit Partnership members.

Robbie Perkins' $1.65 million pocket lining for the Agapions?

"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.

Doug Clark's Fekcud Up View of the World and Abner Doon's Response So Far

Our flagship state university will do this,

or else slip from the nation's elite.

Right now, it is undervaluing the higher education

and academic experience it offers.

It's got to start catching up.

Doug Clark

Representative and Apologist of the 1%

As the parent of a 17 and 14 year old
who is about to send them to college
and pay more for less,
I find your rhetoric offensive.

Fec - "some mind-warping logic" on Robbie Perkins and the White Street Landfill

"And here’s some mind-warping logic for you.

The social retards are up in arms
because Danish failed to recuse Perkins for being in cahoots
with one of the putative vendors.

Ed Cone's RUCO Linkfest all found at Ed Cone's Word Up: Please answer the question Ed

http://edcone.typepad.com/wordup/2010/09/ruco-primer.html

http://edcone.typepad.com/wordup/2011/04/undoing-ruco.html

http://littleurbanity.blogspot.com/2010/08/ruco-facts-and-figures.html

http://edcone.typepad.com/wordup/2010/08/ruco-1.html

http://edcone.typepad.com/wordup/2010/08/ruco-meeting.html

http://edcone.typepad.com/wordup/2010/07/ruco-meetings.html

http://edcone.typepad.com/wordup/2010/09/ruco-support.html

http://yesweeklyblog.blogspot.com/2010/07/ruco-task-force-meeting-rescheduled.html

http://blog.news-record.com/staff/scoopblog/2008/10/the_great_ruco.shtml

http://yesweeklyblog.blogspot.com/2010/07/hairston-apartments-test-case-for-ruco.html

http://yesweeklyblog.blogspot.com/2010/08/vaughan-its-councils-job-to-set-policy.html

http://edcone.typepad.com/wordup/2010/08/ruco-meetings.html

http://edcone.typepad.com/wordup/2011/06/local-control.html

http://www.news-record.com/content/2011/06/08/article/rental_inspections_bill_passes_committee

Abner Doon, Danny Thompson, Robbie, Hoggard, Zack, Ed Cone, Spag, RUCO and Tyler Durden on The Question for Ed Cone: Did Robbie and Zack Stack the RUCO Board?

Ed Cone said...

By "pull a Danny Thompson,"

do you mean "accept 40% of his total campaign contributions

from the DH Griffin family,

while the family's business was up for the landfill contract?

'Cause I know you concern yourself greatly with that kind of stuff,

and your silence on this particular matter has been baffling.

November 3, 2011 4:55 PM

Abner Doon said...

"By "pull a Danny Thompson,"
do you mean "accept 40% of his total campaign contributions
from the DH Griffin family,
while the family's business was up for the landfill contract?"

Yes.

Did Robbie and Zack stack the RUCO Board?

November 4, 2011 12:30 AM

Ed Cone said...

not that i know of.

if you have information, post it.

November 4, 2011 12:45 PM

Dear Ed Cone again:
Did Matheny and Perkins stack the RUCO Board?
Please answer the question Ed.

Ed Cone said...

I don't know what their intentions were, George.

I do know RUCO died in Raleigh,

and the Council under Mayor Knight didn't speak up loudly to save it.

Whether or not that would have made a difference I can't say,

but we don't have a two-person City Council.

Tell us what you think, or people will continue to ignore you.

Spag said...

"Tell us what you think, or people will continue to ignore you."

That's is too funny coming from Ed,
who when asked to explain himself
regarding something he has written
starts whining and dodges giving an answer by saying
"this isn't about me".

November 5, 2011 5:23 PM

Ed Cone is never going to write a blog post

that holds Perkins to the same standard

that he is holding Thompson and Rakestraw to.

Everyone with a brain knows that Robbie Perkins

has far more conflicts and is greased far more by people

who have a lot more business before the City Council

than Thompson or Rakestraw have.

Ed Cone['s]..., trick is to convince everyone else that he isn't biased

and is "just being reasonable".

The most effective advocates are the ones who can convince others

that they aren't advocating.

...media types know this and demonstrate it every day.

His post isn't really about the problem between donors and candidates

because if it was, he'd have far more harsh words for Perkins

instead of none at all.

That's just subterfuge for the real point of his post...

But being that honest would reveal the trick.

Tyler Durden

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

David Hoggard on Robbie Perkins and RUCO: How is Greensboro's press and some bloggers 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

Dear Ed Cone again: Did Matheny and Perkins stack the RUCO Board? Please answer the question Ed.

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

Robert Aiken... Mayor Johnson...2/19/2008
Greensboro Landlords Association, TREBIC,
reapointed by Robbie Perkins

Howard Frank Auman, III...Perkins.... 4/19/2011
Signature Properties, TREBIC,
Owner of very many apartment units
Perkins and many other campaign contributor

Willena Cannon...Wells/..12/2/2008
Greensboro Housing Coalition

Dawn Chaney...Rakestraw...8/2/2010
Landlord, TREBIC

Ronald Bryan Nelson...4/19/2011 (date reappt)...Perkins
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

"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

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

seconded by Mr. Sims.

The vote was tied 6-6.

(Ayes: Dellinger, Nelson, Placentino [Brown Investment Properties], Chaney, Sims, Perkins.

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

The vote died due to lack of a majority.

...John Lowder, Executive Director of the Triad Apartment Association,
stated that it was a misrepresentation that the real estate industry representatives
were trying to eliminate the program.

MINUTES OF THE
GREENSBORO RENTAL UNIT COA ADVISORY AND APPEALS BOARD
REGULAR MEETING
OCTOBER 14, 2010

If Robbie Perkins voted to limit or do nothing for RUCO

three times, how can he say he was for the preservation of RUCO Ed?

ROBBIE PERKINS 10/02/07 Chester H. Brown Jr.
Brown Investment Properties Real estate management TREBIC MEMBER


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

ROBBIE PERKINS 10/04/07 NC Realtors PAC Real estate

ROBBIE PERKINS 10/04/09 Marshall Alan Tuck
Samet Construction Developer TREBIC MEMBER

ROBBIE PERKINS 10/12/09 Steve Bell, [Zack's Employer]
Bell Partners Property management

ROBBIE PERKINS 09/14/07 Chester Brown Brown Investment
Properties Property management TREBIC MEMBER

ROBBIE PERKINS 09/14/07 Jon Bell Steven D. Bell & Co. Property management

ROBBIE PERKINS 09/14/07 Steve Bell Steven D. Bell & Co. Property management

ROBBIE PERKINS 10/07/09 NC Realtors PAC NC Realtors PAC Real estate

ROBBIE PERKINS 10/18/09 Jonathan Seth Coker
Signature Properties Real estate TREBIC MEMBER,
[Partner Frank Auman on the RUCO board]

ROBBIE PERKINS 10/14/09 Bobby Akin, [RUCO board 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

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

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

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

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

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

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 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

ROBBIE PERKINS 09/17/07 Seth Coker Signature Property Group
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

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

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

ROBBIE PERKINS 09/17/07 Durant Bell
Steven D. Bell & Co. Real estate management

Ed, do you think all these folks wanted to preserve RUCO?

Do you think all these contributors connected to the RUCO board

gave Robbie and Zack money to increase regulations for rental properties?

Matheny and Ovittore: The News & Record Editorial Board sells out to Greensboro's Real Estate Industry without mentioning massive conflicts of interest?

"Jay Ovittore ...has been a constant source of irritation for the incumbent...since.

Ovittore, 38,...a decided underdog,
he’s a fierce competitor who has clearly gotten under Matheny’s skin.

“I’m not owned and operated by real estate interests,” Ovittore said...

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

Matheny, 38, shot back: “I’m honest.
You may disagree with what I say but I’m honest.”

Dear Ed Cone: Please answer the question - Did Robbie and Zack stack the RUCO Board?

Robbie Perkins and Roy Carroll Texting During Council Meeting, Parody

ROBBIE PERKINS AND ROY CARROLL TEXT MESSAGING EACH OTHER

TRIADWATCH PARODY ABOVE

The above parody is fictitious but we all need to remember that we did have sitting council member Robbie Perkins text message to China local developer Roy Carroll during a council meeting  in regards to a issue with property off of horse pen creek road, texts are below . Rumor has it that Roy Carroll is going to bring up the 4 million dollars for water and sewer in January 2012  that has been tabled from the City of Greensboro agenda. Here is a link to that report titled "Pulled Agenda Item #31 Local Developer and Crony Capitalist Roy Carroll Wants $4,176,775 in Ecomonic Incentive Grant and Loan" CLICLHERE

Perkins Texts

 The report below is from December of 2009

Above you will see the text messages from Greensboro City Council member Robbie Perkins to local developer Roy Carroll. During council meeting on December 15, 2009 it was discovered that Robbie Perkins was texting back and forth to Roy Carroll about a situation involving a court case which is totally a separate issue and a condemnation of Kotis properties to put in water and sewer to Roy Carroll's property off of horse pen creek road.

The first issue that needs to be addressed is should council members be text messaging during council meetings? The answer should be NO because the council members need to be concentrating on who is speaking to them and the case in front of them and not text messaging their friends or in Robbie Perkins case your TREBIC which stands for the Triad Real Estate and Building Industry Coalition buddy.

The second issue is to see if Greensboro City Council member Robbie Perkins is also Roy Carroll's leasing agent for this property off of horse pen creek road? If Yes ,then the councilman needs to recuse himself from yet another case that comes in front of the City of Greensboro. Here is a post from the past where both Robbie Perkins and Roy Carroll are tied together CLICKHERE on the center city pointe in downtown Greensboro.

To understand the above text messages in the first text message it talks about a person by the name of winfree, that happens to be Kotis Properties lawyer in Chick Winfree. The third text says that is has been tabled till January 5, 2010.In the fourth text it states that "Al" has been giving me the play by play. Al is probably, Al Leonard who is Vice President Carroll Commercial Construction Company and Carrolland Company.And the last text seems like Robbie Perkins saying to Roy Carroll to go toe to toe with Kotis Properties. The "Terry" in the last text is Greensboro City Attorney Terry Wood.

Did Zack Matheny pull a Danny Thompson?

On Nancy [Mary] Rakestraw's campaign filing

News & Record: "Cone Health has $2.2 billion impact on economy" Is Cone Health about to ask Greensboro and/or Guilford County for taxpayer money?

The world is ruled

only by consideration of advantages.

Friedrich von Schiller

Ex-Greensboro City Manager Rashad Young Speaks with Alexandria Mayor William Euille

From youtube we have ex Greensboro City Manager Rashad Young speaking with his new boss in Alexandria Mayor William Euille during a government program called  "Mayor Euille Today". What a novel idea in having the mayor have his own public access program on local government.

If TREBIC endorsed the quarter cent tax increase, why wouldn't they endorse a restaurant tax?

“When government comes unduly under the influence of business,
the tendency is to develop an Administration
which closes the door of opportunity;
becomes narrow and selfish in its outlook and results in oligarchy
[but on the other hand] when government enters the field of business
with its great resources,
it has a tendency to extravagance and inefficiency,
but having power to crush all competitors,
likewise closed the door of opportunity and results in monopoly.”

US President. Calvin Coolidge, November 1925

If insanity is repetitively doing the same wrong thing, why should who vote for the folks that led us into this mess, hoping they can lead us out?

http://www.uncg.edu/bae/cber/tbi/sep11/guilford.html

Highlights of Googling "Skip Alston" and RUCO: David Wharton, David Hoggard and Ben Holder

"Skipped?

White Street Landfill: Greensboro News & Record Editorial Pre Election Hypocracy?

"Editorial: It's a dirty job, but ...

How did a taxpayer funded, 40 year, zero interest loan for the Bessemer Center get done?

City staff members said the loan is risky.

The city would be the second lien holder,

meaning the bank would get paid first if the project failed.

And if the city already has more than $1 million invested in the property

in redevelopment work done so far.

“It’s a hard-to-develop area,” City Manager Rashad Young said.

“Council has to make a decision

about what level of risk they are willing to accept to move forward.”

Amanda via Sam

Vernon Powell contribution to Zack Matheny on 9/15/2011: $100

George Carr contribution to Zack Matheny on 9/19/2011: $200

Macarthur Sims contribution to Jim Kee on 9/22/2011: $200

Pre-Primary Unaudited Greensboro City Council Campaign Finance Reports

City of Greensboro: PUBLIC INFORMATION REQUEST

"Your public information request

for documents related to Landport Project

have been referred to the proper department for response.

"TEPCO finds sign of fresh nuclear fission at Fukushima reactor"

"...there may be signs of fresh nuclear fission in the No. 2 reactor

at its quake-damaged Fukushima Daiichi power plant

Gas samples taken Tuesday from inside the reactor's containment vessel

'may contain radioactive xenon, a gas typically generated by nuclear fission"

Kyodo

A response to an email from Greensboro City Manager Denise Turner Roth on an unanswered public information request

“The information we gave you in response are the complete result of e-mails

which respond to the public record search criteria you provided.

As I noted previously,

we did not repeat portions of the search we had conducted previously

or provide duplicates of the information we already provided to you.”

Denise Turner email to George Hartzman

November 1, 2011

Second sentence contradicts the first.

This was supposed to be a search of Marlene Sanford’s emails.

Were Marlene’s TREBIC and any other lobbying emails searched or not?

"Why Isn't Anyone Talking About Writing Off 3 Trillion Euros of Bad Debt? "

Robbie Perkins and Roy Carroll Show Me The Money, A Look at The Future of Greensboro, Triadwatch Parody

TRIADWATCH PARODY VIDEO.

The above parody video depicts mayoral candidate Robbie Perkins as the agent for local crony capitalist developer Roy Carroll who says "show me the money" just like what we witnessed where he wanted over 4 million dollars the past few months for a water and sewer deal the is now dead on arrival, here is that post CLICKHERE

Still no answers........

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