The saga of the District 3 seat on the Guilford County Board of Education continues, with the hiring of more attorneys.
The Guilford County school board, at a special meeting Monday, Sept. 11, voted 5-2 along party lines to hire an outside law firm to advise it on how to proceed with the legal question of who should be seated to represent District 3 at the Sept. 19 school board meeting.
School board attorney Jill Wilson advised the board that she needed to concentrate on being the attorney for the school board and her advice was to hire the law firm Poyner Spruill to advise the board on this particular and complicated legal issue.
Wilson said, “Neither the constitutional challenge by Mr. Goebel nor the legislation passed gives you the authority to be the decider.”
She added, “At the end of the day you are not going to pick between these two gentlemen.”
Despite the fact that the school board is not going to decide who represents District 3, Wilson said that the legal question was complicated and, “We have to know how to proceed and at this juncture need advice on how to proceed.”
The North Carolina General Assembly passed a bill that went into effect on Aug. 17 that removed Bill Goebel from his seat as the District 3 Guilford County Board of Education member. According to that law, the executive committee of the Guilford County Republican Party would select the new District 3 school board member, who would be sworn in at the next meeting of the Guilford County Board of Education, which is Tuesday, Sept. 19.
Bill Goebel, through his attorney Chuck Winfree, challenged the constitutionality of that law and maintained that the District 3 seat was not vacant and therefore could not be filled by the nominee of the Republican Party.
Goebel attended the Sept. 11 meeting of the school board but was advised by Wilson to recuse himself from voting on the motion to hire outside attorneys, and Goebel didn’t vote.
What a mess this school board and Jill Wilson have made of this entire issue. And, for no good reason. With a 7-2 Democrat majority, nothing was going to change. In fact, if Michael Logan is the bigot Deena Hayes-Green claims, all the better to seat him for the public to see. Then let district 3 vote him out. Deena and the others effectively disenfranchised the voters in District 3. Imagine if all the facts were reversed, a 7-2 Republican majority and Deena had been appointed by the democrats in her district to fill an empty seat. And a Republican board had “issues” with some of her provocative or offensive comments or merely sharing a post. She and her supporters would be up in arms. You can bet it wouldn’t have dragged out this long. I am so glad our kids are done with the school system.
At taxpayer expense, the Democrats have drawn a meaningless line in the sand for every ounce of control they can muster. And the voters are responsible for this.
At least the lawyers are making plenty of money off this school shennaggagan. They are laughing all the way to the bank. Many will pay to keep the power they love. Look at DC
Why are the school board and Goebel allowing attorneys to get rich off taxpayer money? Poyner Spruill is a high-priced Raleigh law firm that will be richly compensated with taxpayer money. Goebel needs to step aside voluntarily. Goebel, why is this position so important to you that you are willing to allow this farce to continue? The Republican Party did not choose you for the school board seat. You are doing the bidding of Deena Hayes, the Democrates on the school board, and Skip Alston. Those mentioned believe you can be controlled. Michael Logan is anathema to the aforementioned. All the more reason Logan needs to be on the school board. Where is your integrity that you would allow the likes of Deena Hayes, the school board Democrates, and Skip Alston to be your support? I would rather go down with the ship. I disagree with Jill Wilson who is already in deep doo doo for her shenanigans with Deena Hayes. Wilson is recommending an outside law firm because she is glad to extract herself from this mess she helped create and because she is helping another law firm to get a piece of the taxpayer pie. Goebel, give it up and save face, and taxpayer money.
I don’t know Mr Goebel personally, but a person who does has told me that Goebel is a man of good character. That he is willing to side with the democrats on the board against the very plain intent of the state legislature speaks very poorly of him. The legislature has spoken, and they said “bye-bye” to Goebel. It’s time for him to listen.
Of course lawyers are always the answer. Lol
They throw away taxpayer money then complain about not having enough to fix the roof.
These people are a joke. Guilford co is circling the drain.