When discussing the Greensboro Aquatic Center's community projects Jim Key said,
"It was a bit controversial, but I just happened to have been the deciding vote to approve the aquatics center," Kee said. "Just wanted to throw that out there."
Might I remind Jim Key that here in District 2 on Sykes Avenue we have the beautiful Peeler Recreation Center located less than 1/4 mile from Jim Key's house where we already have not 1 but 2 newly refurbished swimming pools, one of which is indoors, that could have been used to teach swimming lessons to second grade school children in District 2 without busing them all the way across the City of Greensboro. Pools that aren't even normally in use during the regular school year. Teachers could then combine a trip to the Mc Girt-Horton Public Library next door and make it a learning experience as well.
But no, Jim Kee isn't thinking about what best serves our children, he's thinking about justifying his previous actions in serving the developers and elites.
And if the neighborhoods near the GAC are lacking in recreation centers where children can learn to swim, wouldn't building more recreation centers to serve Greensboro's children have been a more worthy cause than an aquatic center? I know the Heath Community is begging for a recreation center the City of Greensboro is refusing to provide, suggesting instead, parents and Parks & Rec employees teach classes in a park that has ZERO restrooms.
In other parts of the city you can be arrested for peeing on the ground but the City of Greensboro encourages residents of the Heath Community to teach their children to do just that.
Might I remind you that T. Dianne Bellamy-Small represents the Heath Community and along with Kee, Perkins, Zack Matheny and Nancy Vaughan all supported the building of the aquatic center but cannot come up with the money for restrooms for the children of the Heath Community here in East Greensboro. I wonder why that is?
Jim Kee doesn't want to represent Northeast Greensboro, Jim Key wants to represent Greensboro's elite developers-- he just happens to need East Greensboro and Greensboro's poor and working class to do it. Just like all the rest of them.
Like I said, Nancy, it is about the nail! It's all about the nail.
