Nonprofit Corruption At City Hall
Dear Editor,
How come no one sees the corruption in allowing city councilmembers such as Yvonne Johnson to sit on boards that receive funds from city. Oh, of course, it’s OK because they recuse themselves when voting occurs. So the way I see it, the way it works is: “I’ll recuse myself when voting on my pork projects but (wink wink) I’ll support your projects when they come up for vote. Greensboro, how come we allow this? What does the News & Record say? Nothing. Just another Democrat rag.
Russell W. Gibson
Adopt A New Best Friend
Dear Editor,
Saturday, Aug. 26, was National Dog Day. I would like to encourage everyone to go to a local animal shelter and adopt a dog or two.
You can save a life and make a friend.
Everyone should have at least one dog.
Chuck Mann
Mr.Gibson,
There are homes for sale in PG.
Yeah I’d move but my Interest Rate is way low.
Hey Russell, glad you woke up but don’t expect an answer to your honest and excellent question.
If there is one frequent writer who always seems to me to post thoughtful, well-reasoned, concise, non-inflammatory, common sense opinions on complicated, divisive issues, it is Chuck Mann. Never met him. Don’t know him. But I would buy him a beer just to hope that some of his patience and logic would rub off on me.
Well, Russell, 1) I agree with everything you said and 2) she might be the right race.
@Russell W. Gibson – “Just another Democrat rag.” And yet….you read it. AND write letters to it. Hmmmmm…..
Maybe YOU’RE a Democrat, ever think of that? I mean, I’M a Democrat but you don’t catch me watching or writing to FOX News Corp. Speak your truth, Russ, you’ll feel better. Come on out of that closet.
If I wrote a conservative letter to the N&R it wouldn’t get published.
Yes, that’s the truth. Maybe that’s why the paper is almost gone. They left their home in GBO to produce a paper in Winston-Salem. They even cut the thickness of the paper to save money, all for nothing. They “could” get back readers if 1) they didn’t charge for on-line viewing, and 2) hired a few more convervatives versus the liberal columnists, or at least published conservartive viewpoints. . . .but they won’t do either so they will go by the way side.
My best friend is my wife. If she looks like a dog, you need to tell her, not me.
Oh, you crack me up, Miller !
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Cheers!
I did she woofed at me
Come on Miller…as we use to say in the military before a mission, “no guts, no glory”
LOL
Russell, you don’t seem to get the gist of why Yvonne and others are getting $$$$ from the city for creating these 501(C)3 non-profits. It’s all about the $$$$ the city can give away for those who vote for and support the entrenched establishment. As the old saying goes. . . “you scratch my back, and I’ll scratch yours” mentality in local government, heck . . .in all of government.
You probably also don’t know that some of Yvonne’s relatives are probably in on the scam as well serving as “consultants” and employees. The 501(C)3 “charities” have to provide results of the “grifting” of funds from the city, so you can get information on them as a public record. Wonder how much $$$$ has gone into retirement accounts for all these 501(C)3 organizations?
Maybe there needs to be an “48 Hours” investigation into these politicians and how they have manupilated the cities/counties in return for votes.
Too many conflicts of interest on the Greensboro City Council. Yvonne Johnson needs Zack Matheny’s support for her wasteful “Cure the Violence Program” and Zack Matheny needs Yvonne’s Johnson support for his “Downtown Greensboro” entity. Although they proclaim to excluse themselves from voting on their individual entities, are there truly no conflicts. Would love to know how many times their votes on other City Council issues have offset each other! They both need each other and this is a perfect storm for corruption?
There has never been a better example of corruption than that of Mr. Skip Alston our Chairman of the Guilford County Board of Commissioners. No way should he serve on a Commision that negligently funds his “Civil Rights” entity nor allows one to fund one High School Booster Club (Dudley got $50,000) and not give the same funding to all the High School Booster Clubs in Guilford County.
It smells in Greensboro and Guilford County and these issues must be addressed!
Jim Donaldson