Showing posts with label Greensboro City Council. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Greensboro City Council. Show all posts

Saturday, July 8, 2017

CANDIDATE FORUM FOR DISTRICT 2 CITY COUNCIL

Greensboro City Council District 2 Representative, Jamal Fox has resigned.

Citizens of District 2 are invited to hear from candidates for the District 2 seat.

A candidate forum will be held on Thursday, July 13, 2017, 6:30 pm, at
                                                                                                                               
Laughlin Memorial Church
1417 Huffine Mill Rd.
Greensboro, NC  


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Friday, April 21, 2017

Illegal Gambling In Greensboro? With Updates.

Ever heard of Fish Tables? They're an arcade game designed primarily for gambling and no less than 3, perhaps more, have opened up right here in East Greensboro. Vice.com has a very detailed article on their history titled, Why Cops Are Raiding Arcades Over A Fishing Game.

One is located at a property I'm sure you'll remember. It's the same property on Martin Luther King Drive when employees working for Rocky Scarfone bleached the parking lot and altered video tape in an attempt cover up a shooting at Mr Scarfone's club there.

Another is located on East Bessemer Avenue.

And the third that I'm aware of is located in the so called, "grocery store" on Phillips Avenue at Lombardy Street. You know, the grocery store owned by those nice Pakistani merchants who own Kim's on Phillips Avenue and dozens of other convenience stores, hotels and motels throughout the Piedmont Triad.

Perhaps you remember when those same nice Pakistani merchants sold the Greensboro Inn to the City of Greensboro to make room for the performing arts center or when the Greensboro City Council voted to give them the shopping center on the corner of Phillips and Elwell, free of charge plus give them $2 Million Dollars to fix it up?

Could it be that fine upstanding Greensboro business people are opening up gambling operations in the poorest parts of our city?

And could it be that the Greensboro Police Department and Guilford County Sherriff's Department are turning a blind eye because the owners are prominent local citizens?

You tell me?


Update: Just learned of another on Summit Avenue where O Henry Barbecue used to be.


Update 2: A reader sends a photo of another in the Price Place Shopping Center on West Market. Arcades were never so popular in Greensboro. By the way, who owns Club Orion?




Update 3: Two more locations, Lawndale @ Cone and Cone Blvd near Walmart. These businesses are obviously targeting poor neighborhoods.


Update 4: Again Two more locations Battleground Plaza on Battleground Ave. and the curb market on Lawndale Drive across the street right before you get to the Target Shopping Center.


Update 5: June 12, 2017 Greensboro Police take action.


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Tuesday, April 5, 2016

"Greensboro City Council to consider resolution against HB2" and Greensboro Mayor Nancy Vaughan's conflict of interest and links

"At its regular meeting, the council will consider a resolution opposing House Bill 2. While such a resolution has no legal weight, a number of cities across the state are considering similar resolutions to express their opposition and draw greater attention to problems with the law."

My sympathies to those wronged,
but the issue raised concerns a conflict of interest of an elected official
who is supposed to represent all the haters and the lovers equally
and it appears as though there is a problem

"The new law will ...roll back the ability of the city to hold its contractors to the same standards.

The city’s Human Relations Commission will no longer have the authority to handle local non-discrimination claims filed for any reason, including race, age and religion.
The law also removes the ability to sue in state court for any form of employment discrimination, forcing those with claims to go through the more expensive and complicated federal court process."

Mayor and Council:

...What must be considered is if a conflict of interest exists 
either under N.C.G.S. §§160A-75 or 14-234, 
or the City of Greensboro’s Charter, or the City’s Conflict of Interest Policy.

...Direct or indirect benefits are considered under the City’s conflict of interest policy 
and typically involve financial interests for the Councilmember, 
his or her immediate family, their partner, 
or an organization which employs or is about to employ the member, family member or partner...

Mujeeb

S. Mujeeb Shah-Khan
CITY ATTORNEY
OFFICE OF THE CITY ATTORNEY

"Mayor Nancy Vaughan, who is also executive director of LGBT advocacy group Guilford Green Foundation, was a key speaker at the rally."

http://www.greensboro.com/news/local_news/greensboro-city-council-to-consider-resolution-against-hb/article_3ef6b4f9-a14a-5988-97d0-a030c9a5af3c.html

If the state invalidated the ordinances,
how can Nancy Vaughan advocate for the reversal
if she is also serving as a paid lobbyist for an LBGT group?.

NC § 138A-36; ...no public servant...authorized to perform an official action requiring the exercise of discretion,
shall participate in an official action by the employing entity if the public servant
...may incur a reasonably foreseeable financial benefit
...which financial benefit would impair the public servant's independence of judgment
or from which it could reasonably be inferred
that the financial benefit would influence the public servant's participation in the official action.

...(c)        A public servant shall take appropriate steps
...to remove himself or herself to the extent necessary,
to protect the public interest and comply with this Chapter,
from any proceeding in which the public servant's impartiality might reasonably be questioned
due to the public servant's familial, personal, or financial relationship with a participant in the proceeding.

A participant includes (i) an ...employee, agent, officer, or director of a business,
organization, or group involved in the proceeding,
or (ii) an organization or group that has petitioned for rule making
or has some specific, unique, and substantial interest in the proceeding.

How can Nancy Vaughan respond as Greensboro's mayor
if she also is being paid to represent Greensboro's LBGTQ community?

On the possible motives to have voted for and/or signed HB2 into North Carolina law

 http://greensboroperformingarts.blogspot.com/2016/04/on-possible-motives-to-have-voted-for_3.html

 Interesting HB2 thread at Tony Wilkin's Facebook page

 http://greensboroperformingarts.blogspot.com/2016/04/interesting-hb2-thread-at-tony-wilkins.html

 Is Blue Cross and Shield of NC going to ask for their $5,100 back from HB2 enabler/bigot Senate Pro Tem Phil Berger?

 http://greensboroperformingarts.blogspot.com/2016/04/is-blue-cross-and-shield-of-nc-going-to.html

 HB2, The Good, The Bad and the Ugly

 http://greensboroperformingarts.blogspot.com/2016/04/hb2-good-bad-and-ugly.html

 If Bank Of America's PAC gave Pat McCrory $5,100 on 2/5/2016, should they as for their money back?

 http://greensboroperformingarts.blogspot.com/2016/04/if-bank-of-americas-pac-gave-pat.html

 Is Koury Corp's Stephen Showfety (Koury Convention Center and Grandover CEO) going to ask Phil Berger for his money back?

 http://greensboroperformingarts.blogspot.com/2016/04/is-koury-corps-stephen-showfety-koury.html

 Roy Carroll's John Hammer on HB2; "NC Restrooms: Same As They Ever Were"

 http://greensboroperformingarts.blogspot.com/2016/03/roy-carrolls-john-hammer-on-hb2-nc.html

 A few Trudy Wade Campaign Contributors who haven't asked for their money back as far as I know

 http://greensboroperformingarts.blogspot.com/2016/03/a-few-trudy-wade-campaign-contributors.html 

 Why did Fidelity investments contribute money to North Carolina Senator and Kingpin Phil Berger on 3/17/2016? For HB2?

 http://greensboroperformingarts.blogspot.com/2016/03/why-did-fidelity-investments-contribute.html

 Is Greensboro's Don Brady going to ask for his Jon Hardister contribution back, or is he one of the businessmen supporting HB2?

 http://greensboroperformingarts.blogspot.com/2016/03/is-greensboros-don-brady-going-to-ask.html

 HB2; Pat McCrory, Phil Berger, Jon Hardister, John Faircloth, John Blust and Trudy Wade appear to be psychopaths

 http://greensboroperformingarts.blogspot.com/2016/03/hb2-pat-mccrory-phil-berger-jon.html

 Bigots; North Carolina State Senators Trudy Wade and Phil Berger; Bigots; NC Representatives John Blust, Jon Hardister and John Faircloth

 http://greensboroperformingarts.blogspot.com/2016/03/bigots-north-carolina-state-senators.html

 “We didn’t see this coming,” Republican House member John Hardister told Triad City Beat." after voting for HB2, which Brian Cleary didn't mention in the article

 http://greensboroperformingarts.blogspot.com/2016/03/we-didnt-see-this-coming-republican.html

 Greensboro's News and Record covering for John Blust and John Hardister who voted for the anti-gay North Carolina legislation

 http://greensboroperformingarts.blogspot.com/2016/03/greensboros-news-and-record-covering.html

 Joan Monaghan Williams‎ to Nancy Barakat Vaughan; March 25 on the Transgender issues

 http://greensboroperformingarts.blogspot.com/2016/03/joan-monaghan-williams-to-nancy-barakat.html










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