Will Saner Heads Prevail Eventually? Let us pray.
Posted in Greensboro City Council
Feb. 29, 2008 at 23:35
by BrendaBee
I had started to blog on the latest installment of Cops in Black and White by Jerry Bledsoe as follows: We had heard of this interrogation before, but this time Bledsoe recounted the shock, bewilderment and the beginning of the pain of being betrayed that David Wray was feeling. He was under attack and so was his closest staff members. He was watching this dedicated veteran group of police officers who had served Greensboro well for many years being accused and persecuted by a pack of lies, and being turned from a cohesive group of professionals into a group of individuals suspicious of each other and others and acting defensively.These men had devoted their lives and entire careers to Greensboro and now that retirement with the benefits they had earned was so near and they were really too old to start over they were being bombarded with lies and betrayal from their superiors for no reason that they could fathom.
Not knowing where I wanted to go from this point I broke to read some blogs. It was Joe who set the next course for me when he stated, "Most of us have had the experience of being betrayed. It is an awful thing to go through. But a betrayal this public, at this high a level, and at this degree of inappropriateness could only be made possible by very weak political leadership. And unfortunately, that is what we have had in Greensboro; and that is why the GPD fiasco occurred."
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"..very weak political leadership" Oh yes. And a very weak political leadership that is continuing even after elections because the people voted back into office the previous weak members and a couple more of dubious character.
Zack Matheny is young and from time to time he shows good instincts until his handlers get to him and yank on his chain. He has been bought and paid for and hasn't yet realized that politics in Greensboro is changing and the old guard is being challenged. If he has hopes for a political future he really should start doing things his way and not as he is told.
Robbie Perkins took an at large seat on name recognition unfortunately. This man is slime personified. He was behind the cover up and costly Project Homestead fiasco. He was behind the blasphemy that is a shopping center at the corner of Old Battleground, Battleground and Horse Pen Road. He was all for the attempt to put a huge drug store in the already traffic jammed Cornwallis and Lawnsdale intersection. He is Mitch Johnson's cheer leader and takes every opportunity to shout down anyone who questions anything Mitch does. Now he has brought back up the city buying the polluted and over priced Canada Dry property next to the Coliseum. A motion that was approved 7 to 0. He brought this up at the end of the meeting right after the one sane opponent to the purchase, Mike Barber, had left the meeting. (Did I mention slime?)
The one and only thing the last City Council did right was vote not to purchase this property even tho Mitch Johnson has assured the owners that the city would pay their inflated price. Now it is back because of Robbie Perkins and the developers who own him. His idea is to add the property to the Coliseum complex. I might remind you that the Coliseum is costing the tax payers $2 million a year for upkeep. Of which $325,000 of this is given as the salary of Mr. Brown to manage the complex (the highest paid city employee). One would think for this kind of money the city could hire a manager who could at least make the Coliseum pay for itself, if not make a profit.
Oh well here we have a slimy politician pushing the purchase of a polluted over price piece of property to add to a white elephant money hole managed by an incompetent who I am sure couldn't get a job as dog catcher anywhere but Greensboro.
Dear Lord, but as Joe says we did and do surely have weak leadership in our City Council that allows these things to go down. Now I can't help but wonder just what is going to happen to Greensboro as a city. Surely no large corporations are going to want to relocate or start up here with the way things are. Companies take a close look at the way cities are run and the nature of the political climate before putting their money on the line I assure you. Our growth and jobs and prosperity will surely suffer. Decent people are getting out of the police force as soon as they can get jobs elsewhere. I know I would be on my way out the door because in that atmosphere lying low just won't be safe enough. That of course will leave the residents of the city even more at the mercy of criminals.
I know from a couple of my neighbors who are city employees that many in other departments are looking for other jobs, and naturally these are the cream of the crop as the lazy and incompetent have it made with a government job. There seems to be no end to what two slimy little petty people as Mitch Johnson and Linda Miles have been allowed to get away with doing, and only a handful of us even making any noise about it. In fact, even some of whom I consider "good" people are willing to see this injustice prevail and "move on" just to have the outward appearance of peace while the criminals operate under cover and under protection of those who are supposed to be protecting us.
I guess I am now at the point of being with David Wray and his command staff in hoping and wanting to believe that "saner heads will prevail". But so far there are no saner heads in Greensboro so I can't see any hope except for the Feds coming in and cleaning out the mess. Will this possibly happen in time? BB