In yesterday's News & Record, Amanda Lehmert writes,
"On Tuesday, a majority of council members agreed to let voters decide in November whether to build the proposed $60 million center.
That may seem like a win for people who want to see the center built. But it’s the last thing Perkins wanted. "
That's because Perkins is the only GPAC clown smart enough to understand that their support after having spent over $300,000 of City tax dollars to promote the project comes to less than 1% of Greensboro's overall population. Gonna be hard to pass a bond with 1% of the population behind it and no more taxpayer money to promote the idea.
The Mayor's next effort will be to reintroduce the subject of using non voter approved bonds, hotel-motel taxes, the general fund, internet sweepstakes and other tax funded means to support the project. Should that effort fail he will pitch the idea that another study needs to be funded so that the money for the study can be diverted to advertising in one form or another. You can also expect Walker Sanders and the Community Foundation of Greater Greensboro to look for ways to fund GPAC advertising under the table as doing so openly fails to meet the foundation's charter.
Ross Harris' reputation as a marketing consultant is destroyed except for the fact that the News & Record-- the largest recipient of GPAC monies to date-- conveniently lost all its online archives just last week. Conspiracy theories, tin foil hats? The last time the News & Record conveniently and forever lost its online archives was when they were proven to be accomplishes in the illegal firing and subsequent slander of Greensboro Police Chief David Wray to which the City of Greensboro has already paid over $157 Dollars and continues to pay to avoid being sued.
And while I've very unhappy that our tax dollars are spent in this manner, I'm very happy that my friend, David Wray, is getting his due.
