"As The Troublemaker documented, the company, Greensboro Parking Group, LLC, missed deadlines, became delinquent on their property taxes, had the original contract with the city extended four months after it expired and missed milestones that were to be met before the public funds were given to them. The city gave them the full $200,000 anyway, before the milestones were met—some of it even after the contract extension expired."
I highly recommend you read all of Roch's post as it only gets better... Or worse if your names happen to be Nancy Hoffmann, Nick Piornack or Jim Budd.
Note: Before another stupid, anonymous coward commenter points it out again: Nancy Hoffman partnered with Budd and Piornack to form South End Partners LLC, not Momentum nor Greensboro Parking Group or any of the long list of other fraudulent and/or failed business ventures Misters Budd and Piornack have started to date.
In recent days anonymous commenters have been going about a damage control program seeking to discount entire bodies of work based on simple mistakes. As I have written before: there may well be mistakes in the reporting of what has happened but the actions of Nancy Hoffmann, Nick Piornack or Jim Budd are very much deliberate and represent a long pattern of robbing Peter to pay Paul.
One commenter using the pseudonym Neighborhood Watch accused me of only telling one side of the story but when I offered to allow Neighborhood Watch the chance to tell both sides of the story all I got was insults and more lies.
Then along came another anonymous commenter using the initials, RP whose Modus operandi is to find one mistake, demand a correction and declare the entire body of work to be incorrect. Why if I didn't know better I'd swear RP is Ed Cone. Well here's a little redneck analogy for you RP: If your car has 8 spark plugs and 1 spark plug is fouled the car will still get you to where you want to go. Not as fast, not as efficiently and not as smoothly but it will get you there.
Coming to any blog post and discounting what you read there without following through on the hyperlinks to see the evidence presented is tantamount to driving while blind-- even with 8 good spark plugs you still won't get there-- ever.
Of course, commenters like RP, Neighborhood Watch and the other anonymous cowards attempting to spin this story already know this but they are hoping you don't. They're hoping you'll read their comments without following through the links and be convinced by their words alone, sans any evidence. So with that said I take you to 2 posts by Dang. The first is where James Budd bullied then city employee Jamal Fox, now City Councilman Jamal Fox.
And the second is filled with e-mails showing the special treatment given the Greensboro Parking Group by the City of Greensboro. Now how many strings to you think Nancy Hoffmann pulled to make all that take place?
Seems RP, Neighborhood Watch and the rest had best crawl back into their holes. The #1 sign that something corrupt is going on: City Council isn't talking about it. They've all clammed up. Happens every time until the media pushes the issue.
