Before I begin allow me to start by saying there has never been an article or story posted to this website that couldn't have been corrected had the person or persons I wrote about been willing to step up and provide the documentation necessary. Marty Kotis did it. Justin Conrad did it. Tony Wilkins has done it time and time again. When I called these men out based on the pathetic state of reporting that was being done by the main stream media which lead myself and others to believe they were in the wrong, they provided me with the documentation necessary to prove themselves right and I posted it to these pages even though I'm an avowed liberal and all three of them are conservatives.
Why? Because my one goal is and always has been truth. I don't do this as a hobby, to seek attention, for power or just to annoy people. I do it because I seek truth and desire to speak truth to power.
I don't have the tools or the assets the main stream media has to investigate these stories. I don't have access to the paid data bases. I don't have teams of lawyers on retainer. I don't have police powers or the ability to issue a subpoena. I can't just make people answer my questions. And even when I submit a public information request to get information that the public has every legal right to know I have no means of knowing if the process is being followed through to the letter of the law or even in the spirit of the law. As a matter of fact: myself and others have documented instances where the City of Greensboro failed to follow the law concerning the PIRT process.
So I resort to techniques that are to say the least, unconventional. And for that reason Greensboro's "leaders" find me appalling. Well get the fuck over it. Had our "leaders" been doing what they were supposed to be doing in the first place I would have never embarked on this mission. The Billy Jones you see today was created by the Greensboro City Council. That's right, you made me what I am today and you have to live with me like it or not.
And with every passing day my audience grows larger. I am the Greensboro Elites' worst nightmare come true. Threaten me in court and you end up like the gangster Rocco Scarfone. Try to use the media to spread your propaganda and you end up like Mayor Nancy Baracat Vaughan. Try to steal from the poor and you end up like Walker Sanders and John Lomax.
Sometimes the truth hurts. Threaten me with violence and I will return fire! Threaten my family and they'll return fire too!
Like I said, had they bothered to provide evidence to the contrary I could have changed every post. They made no efforts, none, zero, nada, zip.
So what's up with the GPAC? It passed despite the fact that Councilman Mike Barber admitted there was fraud involved. Wilkins, Abuizuater and Hightower voted no. The best written account of what took place is without a doubt, Jeff Martin's Blank Check Wilkins and his follow-up, IGMFUPAC Agreement Approved.
The recall process will begin soon as promised.
There is one council member who voted for the PAC that might not be getting recalled depending on the outcome of the investigation. He might be gone before the recall even begins. See #10 if you haven't already seen it. He's another who refuses to help his own case. I realize, in this country we are innocent until proven guilty but the court of public opinion has never worked that way and politicians are always on trial in the court of public opinion like it or not. It's reality, deal with it.
Besides, should leaders not be held to higher standards, to avoid even the appearance of impropriety?
In the meantime, for those of you opposed to GPAC, also known as the Steven Tanger Center for The Performing Arts, I highly recommend you boycott Fresh Market as Steven Tanger is a major stockholder and sits on their board of directors.
Time to turn the screws. I know, some of you think it isn't fair to pick on businesses but it's also not fair for businesses to interject themselves and their money into local politics. And that's exactly what Steven Tanger did with the money he makers from Fresh Market, Tanger Outlets, Burlington Outlet Mall and his other investments. Oh yeah, boycott them too.
And please folks, forward this post to everyone you know.
