Greensboro Intergovernmental Relations Manager LaToya Caesar-Crawford admitted to the City Council that she didn’t know that House Bill 470 was coming up for a vote on Wednesday, April 26.
Caesar-Crawford said she didn’t know because the bill wasn’t posted on the dashboard until minutes before the meeting. However, the City Council in Winston-Salem knew the bill was coming up and sent a delegation to speak against it. Both Greensboro Police Chief John Thompson and Fire Chief Jim Robinson knew and went to speak about particular issues they had with the bill and managed to have the bill amended.
But the Greensboro City Council didn’t know because Caesar-Crawford – hired by City Manager Tai Jaiyeoba to keep the City Council informed of what was happening in the state legislature – didn’t know that a bill to amend the charter of the City of Greensboro against the wishes of the majority of the City Council was coming up for a vote.
It’s a rookie mistake to depend on the legislative website for information about what is happening in the legislature. Like any other legislative body, the way to know what is happening in the North Carolina General Assembly is to have a working relationship with representatives, senators and their staffs.
It appears that Caesar-Crawford has not developed those relationships, which is not a surprise since, judging from her resume, she had little previous experience in government. Caesar-Crawford was a principal with Guilford County Schools when Jaiyeoba hired her an,d according to her published resum,e her professional experience was in education, not in government or politics.
But Caesar-Crawford’s background indicates that along with lacking professional experience in government, she has very limited experience with government at the most basic level – voting.
According to the North Carolina Board of Elections website, there is no LaToya Caesar-Crawford registered to vote in North Carolina. However, there is a LaToya Caesar registered in Guilford County, and LaToya Caesar has voted in one election in the state; she voted in the 2020 general election in Cabarrus County. Newspaper articles show Latoya Ceasar-Crawford went by the name LaToya Caesar when she worked in Iredell County before moving to Guilford County.
According to the voting records on the NC Board of Elections website, Ceasar-Crawford, who was hired as the intergovernmental relations manager for the City of Greensboro on Aug.1, 2022, didn’t vote in the Nov. 8, 2022 general election, but she did register to vote in Guilford County on Nov. 8, 2022. Same day registration and voting is allowed during early voting but not on Election Day.
The available public records also show that Caesar-Crawford didn’t vote in the City Council election on July 26, 2022, or in the statewide and City Council primary on May 17, 2022.
Caesar-Crawford did not respond to phone and email contacts about her voting history.
So it appears that Greensboro has hired someone to handle its relationships with local, state and federal governments who wasn’t registered to vote in Guilford County when she was hired and didn’t vote in the one election held since she was hired.
As noted by Mayor Nancy Vaughan, because of past actions, Greensboro has a tenuous relationship with the legislature and it appears Greensboro’s intergovernmental relations manager is hurting, not helping, that relationship.
Hypocrapsy #101.
Nothing to see here, just another individual on the payroll who has done nothing to add value to Greensboro.
But, but, but- she checks all the relevant boxes….
Not surprised one bit to hear all of this. And you know what , nothing will change because these people don’t care.
She must be going a pretty strong job for you to be this bothered. 🙂
Inaccuracy and lack of factual information seems to be the theme of this publication.
So, why are you reading it?
Prove Mr. Hammers opinion in this publication wrong. If you have facts, share them. If not then you have no reason to comment. Being new in this position is no excuse for an individual who expressed on their resume their experience. Experienced person would not have made a rookie mistake. They would have know and complied. My advise is if Greensboro Intergovernmental Relations Manager LaToya Caesar-Crawford does not know, then ask for guidance from someone who does. No shame in asking, shame in not asking and making excuses.
Why didn’t the city manager do due diligence on Ms. Caesar Crawford before hiring her? Were there others considered? Perhaps the city council should start looking for a new city manager.
Her job was never posted, it was created after the manager was hired and after the the budget was already in place. As council person Thurm stated in the news article, this is an unfunded and expense to the taxpayers that was created out of thin air.
City manager has created a few unposted, unfunded positions. There seems to be one common criteria for hire.
Will the council correct this or just let it go ?
Not surprised at all. Another SNAFU! You voted these clowns in. Enjoy the show!
Old lesson that has yet to be learned: You get what you vote for. And Greensboro/Guilford County are certainly being Flushed.
Pretty obvious case of more guilford county cronyism. Could save a lot of money checking te website ourselves.
This woman was a Principal at a school in Guilford County prior to this. Let that sink in folks! Let me be first to remind her it is our civic duty to vote. I’m betting she had no problem at all giving hypocritical speeches to school children about voting rights and no problem loading them on buses in droves to ride with “impartial” liberal a$$#oles to the polls. Her background is in education? Sounds to me like little miss thing is now getting an education in how government actually works. If it were up to me, she and Toby would both be out before the door could close behind them!
Thought all city jobs have to be posted? Could this be a racially motivated act? Bet if she was white- Hightower and the Eastside city council gang would be yelling.
Glenn Michele kennedy went from a sitting council member to a new job with the city that was never posted and recently Skip did the same with the county 5 new mwbe hires (all black) that were non budgeted or posted. All cronyism
The hiring was political and one of those “it depends on who you know” as the criteria. If I were the City Mgr, I’d find a place for here where she doesn’t engage with other governments, maybe a traffic meter person in the police dept. What a failure of leadership, which is not uncommon in Geekboro.
If she could have voted it would have just been another vote for the Woke Socialist Council that is in place today. I would hope that all of those that voted for this council would stay home next election and let the rest of us place a council that will be more concerned with the tax payers money and well being instead of catering to a leftest agenda that is being catered to today. The first to go would be the city manager, city attorney and all the cronies that they hired.
Yes, yes and yes.
The obvious question is:
– Why did Jaiyeoba bestow a well paid sinecure on this woman? What did she do to impress him?
Does she have a relationship with the city manager. I wonder
Another DEI foul up!