People ask me why am I going about change the way I'm doing it, angrily writing about others and pointing out their flaws instead of making friends with those at the top. They wonder how it is I could have the audacity to attempt to speak at the Mayor's East Greensboro Summit and call the summit The Gathering Of The Trolls when it's no secret to anyone that the Mayor and I are not friends? And the classic, if you want to change the system then why not run for office and change the system from the inside?
Why? Because it's never been done, that's why. Political reform has never been accomplished from the inside. It doesn't work. It's against the laws of physics. Political reformers understand that once you're on the inside you become enslaved to the very system you intended to change. Political reformers understand that holding political office is a conflict of office for the true political reformer no matter where he or she stands on the issues. Look back at history at who promised political reform and who delivered political reform. Politicians promise political reform at every election but never deliver. Political reformers never make empty promises but always give it their best. And in the end political reformers deliver political reform occasionally-- politicians never.
Take Greensboro for example: With the exception of one member of council, the entire City Council's campaigns are majority funded by TREBIC members. While several members have privately expressed support for my Greensboro Economic Plan they know TREBIC members will lose money if it passes and for that reason they are all scared to vote for it. They want to but they don't dare. And who runs TREBIC? Mayor Robbie Perkins and Roy Carroll, that's who.
So there I am, backed into a corner with but 2 choices: Take on TREBIC and Mayor Perkins using all the ugliness that is required to force political reform in Greensboro or give up and go away. I've made my choice, Greensboro, what will the rest of you do? Will we deliver? I don't know. But we'll never deliver if we just go away.
