Recent Jeff Gauger and News and Record related excerpts; Warren Buffett betrayed Greensboro's community

Warren Buffett owns a huge chunk of the financial industry,
and enough of the information dissemination industry to manage 'news' messaging enough
to protect his investments like Clayton Homes and its financing arm

Warren Buffett owns Greensboro's News and Record.

The News and Record didn't report how Clayton Homes rips off poor people.

Jeff Gauger didn't report how Wells Fargo makes money from North Carolina's retirement plans.

The News and Record didn't report how mimicking the federal government's Thrift Savings Plan could save Greensboro's employees more than $500,000 per year, to preserve Warren Buffett's profitability at the expense of their readers.

Jeff Gauger and friends steal hundreds of millions from their readers via lies of omission so Warren Buffett can make more money.

Greensboro's City Council is in on it, including Tony Wilkins, whose cowardice from the right is a complete disgrace.  They fucked their own employees with the help of Jim Westmoreland, Mary Vigue, Connie Hammond and Donnie Turlington.

Nancy Vaughan led the Council into shafting their own employees by letting the financial industry continue to grossly overcharge fees in the City's 457 ICMA-RC retirement plan.

It's inexcusable.

http://greensboroperformingarts.blogspot.com/2016/03/buffetts-berkshire-hathaway-boosts.html
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"Ex-Triad partnership chief has case continued again", Stan Kelly, Wells Fargo and North Carolina's Crony Governments

That's how to get rid of people like Ron Elmer who just lost to Dan Blue
for North Carolina's Treasurer

By not making an endorsement for the NC Treasurer Democratic primary,
Greensboro's News and Record, along with most of the other state papers
fucked hundreds of thousands of municipal employees out of more than $500,000,000 per year
and most don't know.

Stan Kelly knows.

Stan Kelly presided over years of skimming money from retirement plans for Wells Fargo,
was involved in purchasing elected officials with legal bribes
and now, with the help of organizations like the Piedmont Triad Partnership
will continue to fleece North Carolina employees with Warren Buffet's blessing

Joe Killian and Jeff Gauger betrayed North Carolina's employees
for Warren Buffett

Allen Johnson and Doug Clark betrayed North Carolina's employees
for Warren Buffett

http://greensboroperformingarts.blogspot.com/2016/03/ex-triad-partnership-chief-has-case.html

Marty only extracts rent from most of the restaurants on his properties, which the News and Record's Allen Johnson doesn't seem to understand.  But Allen doesn't understand basic economics, so that's what we have for an 'opinion leader'.  

More like a cheerleader of the uneducated variety whom everyone likes to look at anyway.

Doug Clark, Allen Johnson and Jeff Gauger didn't understand or foresee what happened last time the economy tanked, and their jobs are to not know or report as we decline once again.

They, along with the Triad Business Journal, are just cheerleaders for the 1%.

http://greensboroperformingarts.blogspot.com/2016/03/what-is-probably-happening-at-marty.html

What Warren Buffett's newspapers did to North Carolina's employees

http://greensboroperformingarts.blogspot.com/2016/03/what-warren-buffetts-newspapers-did-to.html

Who do you think Greensboro's News and Record is going to endorse?

Greensboro's News and Record is directly responsible 
for North Carolina and the City of Greensboro's employees 
paying more for pension and retirement investments than necessary,
as they have known for years and did nothing

Jeff Gauger has direct personal knowledge
of Elmer's strategy, as I told him on multiples of occasions
and he didn't let Warren Buffett's newspaper report the story

Joe Killian and Susan Ladd know exactly what could have been reported
and wasn't,
and then Joe's wife became a financial industry lobbyist

Jon Hardister barely lifted a finger,
and then failed to act in the best interests of North Carolina employees
by not following through

Tony Wilkins, Nancy Vaughan, Nancy Hoffmann, Sharon Hightower, 
Yvonne Johnson, Mike Barber, MariKay Abuzuaiter and Jamal Fox
with Jim Westmoreland, Donnie Turlington and Mary Vigue's help 
betrayed those they are supposed to represent

http://greensboroperformingarts.blogspot.com/2016/03/sound-familiar-who-do-you-think.html

Mark Sutter and Jeff Gauger betrayed our community's investing class

They shafted Wachovia's shareholders and they know it

I figure they figure it's okay if most everyone else in the news business did the same

It would certainly be nice to have a local paper with some guts

Watching John Hammer disintegrate isn't a pleasant experience

He looked like someone stole his soul at the PAC press conference,
and his reporting on the subject proved it

Being someone's puppet can't be that much fun, 
just ask Donnie Turlington

http://greensboroperformingarts.blogspot.com/2016/02/greensboros-news-and-record-would-be.html

How financially illiterate is our press?

How sold out is Tony Wilkins?

When did Justin Outling choose to sell his soul?

How disappointed can we get with Sharon Hightower?

Marikay...

What is the $78.1 million number based upon Matt Brown?

WTF?

How much will Brady Trane make on the deal?

How much will Lomax Construction make?

David Hagan already got his taste.

Walker Sanders CFGG has already profited.

DH Griffin was paid to knock everything down.

Who get's the construction contracts?

Who makes the RFP decisions?

Is our community this collectively fucking stupid?

Thanks News and Record and Roy's Rhino.

If there's a hell, Roy Carroll, John Hammer, Brian Clarey, Eric Ginsberg
Chuck Womack, Joe Killian and Jeff Gauger etc... should get first class tickets.

You let pay to play crony capitalism take over Greensboro

Fuck you for betraying your profession.

This one is yours Nancy Vaughan and Jim Westmoreland.

Not only did you use a taxpayer owned property as a gift
for Marty Kotis,
you lied your way into a white elephant of a PAC
while Greensboro's press let you off the hook.

Now that you're re-elected going into a global recession,
when the tide of easy money goes out,
you'll be standing naked and alone as those who profited
recede out of sight.

http://greensboroperformingarts.blogspot.com/2016/01/the-stpac-project-currently-budgeted-at.html

Guess who Warren Buffett's News and Record is endorsing and what Jeff Gauger won't allow to be reported?

http://greensboroperformingarts.blogspot.com/2016/01/guess-who-warren-buffetts-news-and.html

This is why the City of Greensboro didn't want to change their retirement plan options, but did anyway with little fanfare, saving their employees money without saying so.

It's why Jeff Gauger, Joe Killian and Amanda Lehmert at the News and Record, owned by Warren Buffet who owns more than 9% of Wells Fargo, didn't report anything on my proposal to save Greensboro's employees money in the plan.

It's why Jeff, Joe and Amanda didn't tell local Wells Fargo clients how they were being lied to in Envision Retirement Plans.

Thousands of investors in our community are relatively getting ripped off by being overcharged, and the News and Record didn't tell anyone after multiples of interviews and provided documentation.

http://greensboroperformingarts.blogspot.com/2016/01/i-flushed-my-stock-broker-career-by.html

Ever been lied to by omission by a local paper 
owned by Warren Buffett?

Any Wachovia shareholders out there
who have been sold a bridge 
by the Winston Salem Journal or Greensboro's News and Record?

What's not that really intriguing
is how a modern day news dissemination outlet
can con an entire community into believing what isn't true.

Mo has yet to reap what he sowed with Say Yes to Education 
and Say Yes Guilford, 
as our local news sources are worthless.

The News and Record and the Rhino Times
are lobbyist driven propaganda machines, 
serving not their readers 
but their advertisers and publisher's best interests.

What you think you're thinking, 
isn't' necessarily what may actually be true, 
but may be what some decide behind closed doors 
to tell you to think,
and you didn't and most probably won't know.

If you think other than what 'they' want you to think, 
they'll label you as unhinged.

etc...

So fuck you Joe Killian, Jeff Gauger and friends

http://greensboroperformingarts.blogspot.com/2015/12/greensboros-news-and-record-doesnt.html

When presented with the opportunity to do right by City of Greensboro's employees, Tony Wilkins, Marikay Abuzuaiter, Nancy Vaughan, Mike Barber, Yvonne Johnson, Jamal Fox and Sharon Hightower supported cronies connected to the financial industry, Jim Westmoreland, Mary Vigue, Rick Lusk and Connie Hammond rather than more than 2,800 employees who are still getting skimmed off of by ICMA-RC, the administrator for the City's 457 retirement plan.

Same thing only different.

When presented with the opportunity to report to the public how the financial industry rips off local investors and retirement plan participants, the News and Record's Joe Killian, Susan Ladd, Stephen Doyle, Jeff Gauger, Margaret Moffet among others including the Rhino Times John Hammer and the Triad Business Journal's Mark Sutter didn't lift a finger for their readers against the parasitic interests who prey upon their readers.

These folks let the banking and investment system steal from you.

And they know it.

And they didn't bother to tell you, as it would upset their benefactors.

Now Mary Vigue is in charge of a legal Ponzi scheme called Say Yes to Education and Say Yes Guilford whose business model skims profits for administrators and vendors meant for college scholarships for Guilford County students with monies donated by local foundations, managed for a profit by the Community Foundation of High Point, and the Community Foundation of Greensboro, who's Walker Sanders lied to get additional taxpayer funding for Greensboro's STPAC with the help of Matt Brown, City Council and City staff, including Rick Lusk.

Rick knew better and went along to keep his job as far as I can tell.

He must throw up a little every time he has to go along with the facade.

http://greensboroperformingarts.blogspot.com/2015/12/why-north-carolina-treasurer-janet.html

Warren Buffett sponsored propaganda this is.

Without disclosing Don and Mayor Vaughan's methane take while Nancy served on the Solid Waste Committee, the News and Record comes out with an advocacy piece without an opposing view.

It's garbage journalism Joe Killian, Allen Johnson and Jeff Gauger.

Where is the chart showing those who received taxpayer benefits and their lawyers and/or agents who also contributed monies to the legislators who voted for the projects?

This kind of non-reporting shows a marriage of government, business and the press, which has become a fascist disease foisted upon our community with the News and Record's active, engaged complicity.

Not much different than Susan Ladd's pro whatever most of our City's elite wants her to be for.

You are promoting higher profits for a few connected businesses at the expense of competitors who didn't purchase some politicians down the street.

The News and Record isn't' a news outlet anymore, but a cheer leading squad for Greensboro's crony capitalists.

Saying Revolution Mills is for or in East Greensboro has been a great example of how you have misled your readers.

Still no reporting of the City's cost lowering exercise in their retirement plan, as it would hurt your benefactor.

Still nothing on Mike Barber's taxpayer take with First Tee of the Triad.

You support the initiatives of crooked politicians, which makes you crooked too.

You didn't tell anyone the math Walker Sanders and Nancy Barakat Vaughan came up with was garbage, which it was/is, especially the extra VIP parking revenue utter nonsense.

You didn't inform the public most of the money committed to Say Yes Guilford is coming in over a series of years, even though they are going to start paying out next year, which appears to be unsustainable.

And we are headed into an economic decline. Remember when I told you in your parking lot of a recession within three years Allen Johnson?

Guess what?

Probably about time to re-remove the archives again, for the fourth time in recent history. That way, you can start all over again, before you start over again, again.

That's the new modern form of professional journalism.

Cover your tracks and most won't remember later anyway.

http://greensboroperformingarts.blogspot.com/2015/12/greensboro-and-oranges-don-and-nancy.html

Eventually, Greensboro's News and Record, who has routinely misinformed and/or misled and/or lied by omission to the public of pay to play by Roy Carroll, Zack Matheny, Mike Barber, Tony Wilkins, Nancy Vaughan, Jamal Fox, Nancy Hoffmann, Yvonne Johnson, the Koury Clan, Jim Melvin, Marty Kotis, Sam Simpson, Mary Vigue, John Lomax, Henry Isaacson, Jim Phillips, George Carr, Dawn Chaney etc... etc... etc...    is going to have to write something about all the corruption at the state level which they will claim to abhor, while completely claiming innocence at the local level.

There is no way Greensboro could be as crooked as it is without the help of a compromised press.

http://greensboroperformingarts.blogspot.com/2015/11/two-more-examples-of-what-news-and.html

Joe, along with the rest of Greensboro's News and Record staff who work for Warren Buffett, who makes money on financial 'Services Brands', chose not to investigate or report on the City of Greensboro's overpriced retirement plan for more than two years, and still haven't, even though the City agreed to lower the cost of the plan with Vangaurd Index Funds.

Now Joe's wife Amanda, who used to cover the City, works for a vendor of the City he is supposed to cover as a journalist, supporting the efforts of the financial industry to overcharge retirement plan participants which her husband refused to report on after he said he would.

Joe told me he would report on the City's overpriced retirement plan and didn't.

I met with the News and Record's Jeff Gauger twice on the subject, he agreed with my contentions, said he would do a story, and didn't, costing thousands of his readers millions per year for the benefit of Warren Buffett.

This is Greensboro, where the public doesn't know shit because our press is as crooked as the crooks they cover with accolades. 

http://greensboroperformingarts.blogspot.com/2015/11/two-more-examples-of-what-news-and.html

You own it Susan, Moffitt, Doyle, Gauger and Killian etc... whether you choose to acknoledge your self confirmation bias or not.
It's amazing how someone who has worked so hard to rig this election for Greensboro City Council incumbents is now castigating the public for not participating in the farce.

The News and Record doesn't report correllations to supporter contributions and Council "incentive" hand outs, doesn't bother to identify objvious conflicts of interest of those it's promotiong to win, and expects more to turn out to participate in a pre-determined outcome.

How about telling the public of Jim Melvin's contributions and bundling relative to his $2 million plus take for his white elephant of a megasite a few miles away from another partially owned by a Trudy Wade supporter which is already certified as a site?

How about informing the electorate of Brooks Pierce's Jim Phillips contributions to the mayor after being hired to lobby for and then file suit on the redistricting bill?

Don't these factoids seem relevant?

The low turnout is party the responsibility of the author of the article.

You own it Susan, Moffitt, Doyle, Gauger and Killian etc... whether you choose to acknoledge your self confirmation bias or not.

http://greensboroperformingarts.blogspot.com/2015/10/you-own-it-susan-moffitt-doyle-gauger.html

"Ex-Triad partnership chief has case continued again", Stan Kelly, Wells Fargo and North Carolina's Crony Governments

"David Powell,  former chief executive of Piedmont Triad Partnership, has had his criminal trial continued again...to an "undetermined point in the future."

Powell was replaced by former Wells Fargo executive Stan Kelly on an interim, then permanent basis.

http://www.greensboro.com/news/crime/ex-triad-partnership-chief-has-case-continued-again/article_a5b2abca-87b8-56af-8898-b0f0c9de154b.html
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04/30/2014 Individual Contribution to NC Treasurer Janet Cowell

Stan Kelly
President, Wealth Management, Sr. Exec
Wells Fargo
932 Kenleigh Cir
Winston Salem, NC 27106-5605

http://app.ncsbe.gov/webapps/cf_rpt_search_org/cf_report_detail.aspx?RID=129749&TP=REC

That's how to get rid of people like Ron Elmer who just lost to Dan Blue

for North Carolina's Treasurer

NC Treasurer Janet Cowell Contributions; "Law Firms Seek Cut of State Pension Litigation" and Pay to Play

http://hartzman.blogspot.com/2014/10/nc-treasurer-janet-cowell-contributions.html

By not making an endorsement for the NC Treasurer Democratic primary,

Greensboro's News and Record, along with most of the other state papers

fucked hundreds of thousands of municipal employees out of more than $500,000,000 per year

and most don't know.

Stan Kelly knows.

Stan Kelly presided over years of skimming money from retirement plans for Wells Fargo,

was involved in purchasing elected officials with legal bribes

and now, with the help of organizations like the Piedmont Triad Partnership

will continue to fleece North Carolina employees with Warren Buffet's blessing

Democrats for state treasurer: 29 percent for Dan Blue III, 15 percent for Ron Elmer and 52 percent undecided.

http://www.newsobserver.com/news/politics-government/politics-columns-blogs/under-the-dome/article65307142.html#storylink=cpy

Joe Killian and Jeff Gauger betrayed North Carolina's employees

for Warren Buffett

A News and Record search for Ron Elmer;

http://www.greensboro.com/search/?nsa=eedition&t=article&s=start_time&sd=desc&d1=1+year+ago&q=ron+elmer

Allen Johnson and Doug Clark betrayed North Carolina's employees

for Warren Buffett

What Warren Buffett's newspapers did to North Carolina's employees;

Sound Familiar?; Who do you think Greensboro's News and Record is going to endorse?

http://greensboroperformingarts.blogspot.com/2016/03/sound-familiar-who-do-you-think.html

Associated Press misleads for Wall Street; "Correction: Primary-Council Of State story"; Don't expect the News and Record to tell anyone in print

http://greensboroperformingarts.blogspot.com/2016/03/associated-press-misleads-for-wall.html

Charlotte Observer; "Our choices for N.C. treasurer"; Where is Greensboro News and Record's endorsement for treasurer?

http://greensboroperformingarts.blogspot.com/2016/03/charlotte-observer-our-choices-for-nc.html

Look who's trying to buy some NC Treasurer candidate Dale Folwell? Robinson Bradshaw pay to play

http://greensboroperformingarts.blogspot.com/2016/03/look-whos-trying-to-buy-some-nc.html

John Hammer endorses Democrat Ron Elmer for North Carolina State Treasurer for proposing what Hartzman proposed for the City of Greensboro's retirement plan

http://greensboroperformingarts.blogspot.com/2016/03/john-hammer-endorses-democrat-ron-elmer.html

What Warren Buffett's newspapers did to North Carolina's employees

Democrats for state treasurer: 29 percent for Dan Blue III, 15 percent for Ron Elmer and 52 percent undecided.

http://www.newsobserver.com/news/politics-government/politics-columns-blogs/under-the-dome/article65307142.html#storylink=cpy

Joe Killian and Jeff Gauger betrayed North Carolina's employees

for Warren Buffett

A News and Record search for Ron Elmer;

http://www.greensboro.com/search/?nsa=eedition&t=article&s=start_time&sd=desc&d1=1+year+ago&q=ron+elmer

Allen Johnson and Doug Clark betrayed North Carolina's employees

for Warren Buffett

Sound Familiar?; Who do you think Greensboro's News and Record is going to endorse?

http://greensboroperformingarts.blogspot.com/2016/03/sound-familiar-who-do-you-think.html

Associated Press misleads for Wall Street; "Correction: Primary-Council Of State story"; Don't expect the News and Record to tell anyone in print

http://greensboroperformingarts.blogspot.com/2016/03/associated-press-misleads-for-wall.html

Charlotte Observer; "Our choices for N.C. treasurer"; Where is Greensboro News and Record's endorsement for treasurer?

http://greensboroperformingarts.blogspot.com/2016/03/charlotte-observer-our-choices-for-nc.html

Look who's trying to buy some NC Treasurer candidate Dale Folwell? Robinson Bradshaw pay to play

http://greensboroperformingarts.blogspot.com/2016/03/look-whos-trying-to-buy-some-nc.html

John Hammer endorses Democrat Ron Elmer for North Carolina State Treasurer for proposing what Hartzman proposed for the City of Greensboro's retirement plan

http://greensboroperformingarts.blogspot.com/2016/03/john-hammer-endorses-democrat-ron-elmer.html

Sound Familiar?; Who do you think Greensboro's News and Record is going to endorse?

"Over the past 15 years, the North Carolina state pension’s funding ratio has deteriorated – falling from 112.8% to 94.8%.  The major reasons for the decline—excessive undisclosed fees and wildly speculative hedge and private equity investing..."

Greensboro's News and Record is directly responsible 

for North Carolina and the City of Greensboro's employees 

paying more for pension and retirement investments than necessary,

as they have known for years and did nothing

Thankfully, for whatever reasons, current North Carolina Treasurer Janet Cowell—having exponentially increased the fees paid to her pals on Wall Street—has decided not to seek reelection.

Can’t imagine where she’ll surface next.

...Mr. Elmer, a CPA, has committed not only to publishing financial statements for the North Carolina state pension fund for the first time in 15 years, but also an independent audit of the pension for the first time – ever.

Jeff Gauger has direct personal knowledge

of Elmer's strategy, as I told him on multiples of occasions

and he didn't let Warren Buffett's newspaper report the story

Elmer has pledged not to take campaign contributions from Wall Street but his goals are bigger than winning the Treasurer’s race without Wall Street’s money.  He plans to end pay-to-play permanently in the Treasurer’s office by firing as many of the external managers as possible, bringing North Carolina’s money home, and managing assets in-house using an indexing strategy.  Finally, Elmer plans to replace the widely-criticized “sole-trustee” power of the State Treasurer with a Board of Trustee structure filled with relevant stakeholders – not Wall Streeters.

Joe Killian and Susan Ladd know exactly what could have been reported

and wasn't,

and then Joe's wife became a financial industry lobbyist

Thus, the next Treasurer won’t be able to dole out million dollar investment contracts to campaign contributors without the full consent of the Board of Trustees who would have to vote to move investments from in-house management back to the outhouse.

Jon Hardister barely lifted a finger,

and then failed to act in the best interests of North Carolina employees

by not following through

Elmer has managed state pension investments for Georgia and California, but more importantly, Elmer has previously managed a $2 billion stock index fund for the North Carolina pension fund.  He has quite literally “done this before” and just wants to “do it across town in the Treasurer’s office and save North Carolina hundreds of millions of dollars annually.”

http://www.forbes.com/sites/edwardsiedle/2016/03/01/finally-north-carolina-has-a-good-choice-for-state-treasurer/#70d0935a79cb
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From; NC District 59 Representative Jon Hardister To; NC Treasurer's Office "pertaining to 401(k) and 457 plans"

http://hartzman.blogspot.com/2014/10/from-nc-district-59-representative-jon.html

Tony Wilkins, Nancy Vaughan, Nancy Hoffmann, Sharon Hightower, 

Yvonne Johnson, Mike Barber, MariKay Abuzuaiter and Jamal Fox

with Jim Westmoreland, Donnie Turlington and Mary Vigue's help 

betrayed those they are supposed to represent

On North Carolina State's 401(k) and 457 "GoalMaker" Target Date Funds

http://hartzman.blogspot.com/2014/10/on-north-carolina-states-401k-and-457.html

North Carolina State 401(k) replaced index funds with higher cost actively managed accounts in 2013

http://hartzman.blogspot.com/2014/10/north-carolina-state-401k-replaced.html

A Few Observations on Share Classes and Wells Fargo Stable Return Fund

http://hartzman.blogspot.com/2014/06/a-couple-of-observations-on-share.html

A Few Observations on Share Classes and Wells Fargo Stable Return Fund

http://hartzman.blogspot.com/2014/06/a-couple-of-observations-on-share.html

"Secrecy in Pensions Triggers Legislative Brawl in North Carolina"

http://hartzman.blogspot.com/2014/10/secrecy-in-pensions-triggers.html

NC State Treasurer Janet Cowell's answer to the following question in 2012

http://hartzman.blogspot.com/2014/10/nc-state-treasurer-janet-cowells-answer.html

"North Carolina Treasurer [Richard Moore] calls Wells’ Wachovia deal ‘highway robbery’

http://hartzman.blogspot.com/2014/10/north-carolina-treasurer-richard-moore.html

NC Treasurer Janet Cowell Contributions; "Law Firms Seek Cut of State Pension Litigation" and Pay to Play

http://hartzman.blogspot.com/2014/10/nc-treasurer-janet-cowell-contributions.html

Crow Holdings Capital Partners LLC and Pay to Play with NC Treasurer Janet Cowell

http://greensboroperformingarts.blogspot.com/2014/10/crow-holdings-capital-partners-llc-and.html

"NC Pension Accused of Pay-to-Play Violations"

http://hartzman.blogspot.com/2014/10/nc-pension-accused-of-pay-to-play.html

And so it goes with the Federal Reserve and Roy Cooper and Janet Cowell again

http://greensboroperformingarts.blogspot.com/2016/01/and-so-it-goes-with-federal-reserve-and.html

The Goodmons, WRAL, Janet Cowell and Roy Cooper, overcharging North Carolina State employees in retirement plans and the Wachovia, Wells Fargo merger

http://greensboroperformingarts.blogspot.com/2016/01/the-goodmons-wral-janet-cowell-and-roy.html

Galliard, owned by Wells Fargo, North Carolina Stable Value Fund Transition Update; May 16, 2013

http://hartzman.blogspot.com/2014/10/galliard-owned-by-wells-fargo-north.html

Why North Carolina Treasurer Janet Cowell isn't running for reelection, and how the City of Greensboro's retirement plan committee betrayed their co-workers

http://greensboroperformingarts.blogspot.com/2015/12/why-north-carolina-treasurer-janet.html

Public Information Request for the State of North Carolina's Treasurer

http://greensboroperformingarts.blogspot.com/2014/10/public-information-request-for-state-of.html

What won't be read in the News and Record; "Members of Congress Demand Investigation Into Predatory Practices at Warren Buffett’s Clayton Homes"

"He walked them through Clayton-built homes on the lot, then into the sales center, passing a banner and posters promoting one subprime lender: Vanderbilt Mortgage, a Clayton subsidiary. Inside, he handed them a Vanderbilt sales pamphlet.

“Vanderbilt is the only one that finances on the reservation,” he told the women.

His claim, which the women caught on tape, was a lie. And it was illegal.

In minority communities, Clayton’s grip on the lending market verges on monopolistic: Last year, according to federal data, Clayton made 72% of the loans to black people who financed mobile homes.

On Greensboro's chapter of "The Tin Foil Hat Brigade"

[Most of us didn't] become a ‘dissident’
just because you decide one day to take up this most unusual career.

Most of Greensboro's chapter

isn't relatively on speaking terms with each other.

You are thrown into it by your personal sense of responsibility,
combined with a complex set of external circumstances.

Plenty of external circumstances for all

You are cast out of the existing structures
and placed in a position of conflict with them.

It began as an attempt to do the right thing, 

thinking most would rise to the occasion

which in reality rarely occurs
and certainly hasn't in Greensboro.

It begins as an attempt to do your work well,
and ends with being branded an enemy of society.

Check

[They don't] attempt to charm the public.

He can offer, if anything, only his own skin
—and he offers it solely because he has no other way
of affirming the truth he stands for.

Most don't get past Netflix 

before going to a low paying job

to pay for more Netflix

or ESPN premium channels

or porn, or phones etc...

His actions simply articulate his dignity as a citizen,
regardless of the cost."

Vaclav Havel

I am very interested in an organized revolt

RecycleBill@gmail.com

revolt

to break away from or rise against constituted authority,
as by open rebellion; cast off allegiance
or subjection to those in authority; rebel; mutiny:

Rebel against your technological indoctrination

and feel the wind blow

or the sun shine

to revolt against the present government.

Declare a mutiny 

against ridiculous higher education and healthcare costs

to affect with disgust or abhorrence

Our healthcare industry 

is a money stealing organization 

full of folks betraying oaths for profit

an expression or movement of spirited protest or dissent

Our local government

is in the business of transferring taxpayer payments

to crony capitalists who feed off unobservant masses

who don't know any better as they don't pay attention, 

and if they did, would be presented with shit for-profit journalism.

uprising, disorder, putsch

a rebellion or uprising against authority

http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/revolt

Page Hits = 712 per day at EZGreensboro.com since September 4th, 2015; 84,039 total

The total number of days between Friday, September 4th, 2015 and Thursday, December 31st, 2015 is 118 days.

This is equal to 3 months and 27 days.

http://www.convertunits.com/dates/from/Sep+4,+2015/to/Dec+31,+2015
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"EzGreensboro.com finally saw over 500,000 readers" - Billy Jones; Thursday, January 22, 2015

On September 4, 2015, the count on the right said 629,259

http://greensboroperformingarts.blogspot.com/2015/09/ezgreensborocom-finally-saw-over-500000.html
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At 2:38pm on December 31st, 2015,
the count is 713,298

713,298 - 629,259 = 84,039 / 712 page hits per day
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As far as I know, neither myself nor Billy Jones
has received any legal objection to what we have posted
concerning corruption in Greensboro and Guilford County
within the time frame,
not that we haven't received threats in the past

Most of our local news outlets are crooked.

Many of our local elected officials are crooked as well,
and our crooked press corps keeps them off the hook.

So there about X amount of folks who read EZGreensboro.com
pretty regularly.

712 x 7 = 4,984 per week

My guess is we have about 1,500 to 2,000 regular readers
who follow local politics.

How about some new year resolutions
involving actions to take some of the crooked out of our town?

Don Vaughan is a lawyer.

We have accused Greensboro's mayor of colluding with her husband
on multiples of occasions concerning the couple's income
from the White Street Landfill's free methane for Wilbur Ross' ITG
while Nancy worked on the City's Solid Waste Commission
without one call for a retraction
and without one report from our crooked local press.

Jeff Gauger, Joe Killian, Amanda Lehmert, Margaret Moffet, Marc Sutter, Roy Carroll, John Hammer, Richard Barron, Allen Johnson, Doug Clark etc... are aware of thousands of local Wells Fargo clients getting lied to on their monthly statements and never reported the information to their readers.

Warren Buffett owns more than 9% of Wells Fargo.

They didn't report how the City gave some of its employees a raise by lowering retirement plan costs.

Its because they have sold out,
just like John Hammer did to Roy Carroll

It's not journalism anymore.

It's just propaganda,
and it has harmed our community.

So to those who have betrayed the citizens of Greensboro and Guilford County,
go fuck yourselves very much for the effort,
and get ready for some more.

Heard Spice Cantina went under...along with a couple hundred thousand Greensboro taxpayer dollars

"A property south of the train tracks behind South Elm Street and the Cascade Saloon was sold in 2008 to what would become Greensboro Parking Group LLC for $1,050,000, with a $52,500 real estate commission, half of which was paid to “NAI”.

NAI, as in Robbie Perkins' real estate company

The most crooked mayor in Greensboro's history

until Nancy Vaughan

In February 2012, Greensboro’s City Council passed a resolution approving a $200,000 loan, $100,000 of which was to construct a parking lot that has been completed, and a second $100,000 for a companion restaurant to Worx. Current City Council members who voted for the loan include Nancy Hoffmann, Yvonne Johnson, Zack Matheny, Nancy Vaughan and Marikay Abuzuaiter.

This is on Nancy, Yvonne, Zack, Nancy and Marikay's heads.

These current City Council Members 

and one crooked Greensboro taxpayer funded lobbyist

are directly responsible for what took place

The developer agreed to, and was required to comply with, specified contractual conditions including; “The second $100,000 of City loan funds will be invested in the last $100,000 of project improvements after confirmation that the developer equity and bank funds have been fully deployed into the project. Architect’s or engineer’s certification of work completed on the project and work remaining to be done will be provided to the City prior to the release of any City loan funds. Committed funds totaling $2,272,860... Capital investment must be complete and in-place by July 31, 2013. The parking lot and restaurant tenant, [Spice] Cantina, are required to create at least 4 new full-time positions [by] July 31, 2013. Developer must confirm that all funds inclusive of the tenant up-fit funds of $179,000 necessary to open the restaurant are available and ready to be invested in the business and present a signed lease ... that will own and operate [Spice] Cantina before the second $100,000 of City loan funds are disbursed. The second $100,000 will be used in the renovation and opening of the restaurant and will be reimbursed ... only after all work is substantially completed on the project. The second $100,000 of City loan funds will be invested in the last $100,000 of project improvements after ... bank funds have been fully deployed into the project. No advance payments shall be made.”

Instead of letting organic  forces of free market capitalism

determined who won or lost, 

Nancy, Yvonne, Zack, Nancy and Marikay

chose to allocate money to Council cronies,

which in my view, is a subtle form of fascism

which hurt unconnected businesses down the street

A member of the Momentum Group, whose principals including Downtown Greensboro Inc. (DGI) board member Nick Piornack, informed three City staff members last week that “75 or 80 percent” of the Cantina was complete.

Natty Greene’s poised to move to Revolution Mill

Natty Greene’s co-owner Kayne Fisher 

has previously said that the company will soon outgrow its production facility...

...Revolution Mill Business Development Manager Nick Piornack 

couldn’t be immediately reached for comment Thursday. 

But it appears that if city council approves both grants this upcoming Tuesday, 

Natty Greene’s is here to stay.

Councilman Jamal Fox, 

who represents the district where Revolution Mill is located, 

said he is confident that the resolutions will pass."

http://triad-city-beat.com

Yet the developers have submitted invoices, and received payments from the City, for all but $1,642.86 of the second $100,000. A guesstimate of the project’s progress appears to be far less than the 75 percent cited.

Greensboro's City Council 

just approved millions for a Nick Piornack connected venture

just like they did for his newly failed restaurant

which stole business from competitors down the street

with City Council's blessing 

and their own tax money

The Momentum Group has been in discussions with City Council member Nancy Hoffmann to develop a couple of properties Hoffmann recently purchased on Lewis Street, which would utilize the lot she voted to fund for patron parking.

Nick Piornack as in Nancy Hoffman's business partner, 

Nick Piornack?

Billy Jones

December 5, 2015 at 4:56 PM

Personal guarantees were required from the investor group that included Piornack, whom Nancy Hoffmann nominated for the DGI board.

Nancy Hoffmann Campaign Contributors 

whom Hoffmann voted taxpayer money/largess for, 

which Greensboro's press won't report;

Marty Kotis, Wayne Abraham, Andrew Brod

(Agnes) Gary Brame, George Carr, Dawn Chaney

Betty Cone, Shirley Frye, John Graham

Chip Hagan, Ross Harris, Cyndy Hayworth

Henry Isaacson, Marc Isaacson, Tobee Kaplan

Milton Kern, (Emily) Ed Kitchen, Deborah Lankford

The Lebauers, Reid Phillips, Nick Piornack

The Samet family, Michael Shiftan, Susan Schwartz

Desmond Sheridan, Barry Siegal, Doris Tanger, Cecilia Thompson

http://candidatereports.myguilford.com/files/1612_DOC080315hogf-08032015134439.pdf

Kinda makes you wonder, don't it?

Previously, Hoffmann consented to allow a tenant to apply for a retail grant for her Elm Street building for electrical work, frame and sheet rock, and plumbing. In my view, the grant, which was funded by a Hoffmann Council vote that allocated monies to DGI, benefited her personal property. At a Council meeting, Hoffmann stated “No taxpayer money was spent on my behalf for the 302/304 South Elm building.”

Think the News and Record 
will report Nancy Hoffmann's connections to Nick Piornack
after not reporting her lying to her taxpaying constituents
for self dealing?

It appears the developers have not deployed the agreed upon private monies before asking for the second $100,000 as required. The capital investment and jobs were not in place by the deadline, and the required lease was signed by Piornack, as managing partner of “Spice Cantina, LLC”, even though Piornack is a member of Greensboro Parking Group, LLC, which is listed as the landlord. The City declined further comment on whether the “up-fit funds of $179,000” for the restaurant were “available and ready to be invested”. Nancy Hoffmann did not reply for comment.

Nancy Hoffmann is a crooked, pay to play politician

among others who serve on Greensboro's City Council

who stole/steal from other's tax money 

and the News and Record won't report it

because the News and Record is in on it, deep,
and they keep letting it happen
along with John Hammer and Roy Carroll.

At an Economic Development Committee meeting on April 11, Marikay Abuzuaiter raised the issue of oversight on various loans, grants and incentives provided by the City, specifically citing the Greensboro Parking, LLC loan, and informed her colleagues that Momentum had not satisfied the requirements of the resolution passed by City Council. Abuzuaiter thinks there may be more unfulfilled, undisclosed contracts.

In December, 2013, the contract was amended by City staff without formally informing City Council, extending the “Time of Performance 7/31/2013, to 12/31/2013”. The document states “The City contact for all matters including request for payment and reporting under this agreement shall be Kathi Dubel. Dubel, like former City Manager Denise Turner Roth, served as a lobbyist for the Greensboro Partnership before working for the City.

The City appears to have extended a noncompliant contract after payments were made and obligations not produced, which now looks like it’s in default."

http://yesweekly.com/article-18090-developer-can%25E2%2580%2599t-pave-over-holes-in-city-loan-contract.html
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Greensboro's News and Record reported none of the following;

Robbie Perkins, Nancy Vaughan, Zack Matheny, Jim Kee, Yvonne Johnson and Nancy Hoffmann just cost taxpayers $586,000

http://hartzman.blogspot.com/2013/09/robbie-perkins-nancy-vaughan-zack.html

It's hard to have a crooked government

without a crooked press corps

at the local paper of record
and Roy's Rhino Times

On Nancy Hoffmann's DGI Self Dealing and Conflict of Interest

http://hartzman.blogspot.com/2014/01/on-nancy-hoffmanns-dgi-self-dealing-and.html

Allen Johnson, Doug Clark, Margaret Moffit, 

Jeff Gauger, Amanda Lehmert, Joe Killian,
Roy Carroll, John Hammer, Mark Sutter, Brian Clarey, Jordan Green, Eric Ginsburg, 

Susan Ladd and Stephen Doyle let this happen

without informing the public of the corruption

Kathy Manning, Randall Kaplan's wife, lobbying for a GPAC and their new hotel, with some Nancy Hoffmann, Dawn Chaney and Nancy Vaughan

http://hartzman.blogspot.com/2013/08/kathy-manning-randall-kaplans-wife.html
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Will Nancy Hoffman vote to fund DGI this evening, after her "final subission" to be DGI's landlord?

http://hartzman.blogspot.com/2013/06/will-nancy-hoffman-vote-to-fund-dgi.html

Sounds like the Lee Comer money and street are a joint Dawn Cheney / Nancy Hoffmann project; Linkfest

http://greensboroperformingarts.blogspot.com/2015/03/sounds-like-lee-comer-money-and-street.html

Lee Comer received taxpayer money

advocated by Zack Matheny, Dawn Chaney and Nancy Hoffmann

to unfairly compete with other businesses downtown

with other businesses downtown's tax money,

and the News and Record thought it was great 

to see crooked politicians hook up their friends

to steal business from the unconnected 

How Nancy Hoffmann, Dawn Cheney and the Isaccson's give everyone else's money to their friends, while stiffing East Greensboro

http://greensboroperformingarts.blogspot.com/2015/02/how-nancy-vaughan-and-zack-matheny-give.html
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City Councilwoman Nancy Hoffmann signs authorization for tenant to receive taxpayer money she voted for

http://hartzman.blogspot.com/2013/10/per-dgis-jason-cannon-city-councilwoman.html
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Zack Matheny and Nancy Hoffmann "Are NOT Prostitutes … They Are Pimps"; An Adaptation

http://hartzman.blogspot.com/2013/11/zack-matheny-and-nancy-hoffmann-are-not.html

News and Record Letter to the Editor on Nancy Hoffmann

http://hartzman.blogspot.com/2014/01/todays-news-and-record-letter-to-editor.html
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"No taxpayer money was spent on my behalf for the 302/304 South Elm building." - Nancy Hoffmann

http://hartzman.blogspot.com/2014/01/no-taxpayer-money-was-spent-on-my.html

Nancy Hoffman's campaign contribution connections to Tuesday's Give Away to Greensboro's 1%

http://hartzman.blogspot.com/2013/10/nancy-hoffmans-campaign-contribution.html

How Greensboro works, Nancy Hoffman edition

http://hartzman.blogspot.com/2013/08/how-greensboro-works-nancy-hoffman.html

From a thread at Greater Greensboro Politics on Nancy Hoffman's Crony Capitalism and Self Dealing

http://hartzman.blogspot.com/2013/10/from-thread-at-greater-greensboro.html

Why North Carolina Treasurer Janet Cowell isn't running for reelection, and how the City of Greensboro's retirement plan committee betrayed their co-workers

http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2015/12/pensions-investment-editorial-savages-trustees-for-failing-to-perform-fiduciary-duty-over-private-equity-fees.html
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When presented with the opportunity to do right by City of Greensboro's employees, Tony Wilkins, Marikay Abuzuaiter, Nancy Vaughan, Mike Barber, Yvonne Johnson, Jamal Fox and Sharon Hightower supported cronies connected to the financial industry, Jim Westmoreland, Mary Vigue, Rick Lusk and Connie Hammond rather than more than 2,800 employees who are still getting skimmed off of by ICMA-RC, the administrator for the City's 457 retirement plan.

Same thing only different.

When presented with the opportunity to report to the public how the financial industry rips off local investors and retirement plan participants, the News and Record's Joe Killian, Susan Ladd, Stephen Doyle, Jeff Gauger, Margaret Moffet among others including the Rhino Times John Hammer and the Triad Business Journal's Mark Sutter didn't lift a finger for their readers against the parasitic interests who prey upon their readers.

These folks let the banking and investment system steal from you.

And they know it.

And they didn't bother to tell you, as it would upset their benefactors.

Now Mary Vigue is in charge of a legal Ponzi scheme called Say Yes to Education and Say Yes Guilford whose business model skims profits for administrators and vendors meant for college scholarships for Guilford County students with monies donated by local foundations, managed for a profit by the Community Foundation of High Point, and the Community Foundation of Greensboro, who's Walker Sanders lied to get additional taxpayer funding for Greensboro's STPAC with the help of Matt Brown, City Council and City staff, including Rick Lusk.

Rick knew better and went along to keep his job as far as I can tell.

He must throw up a little every time he has to go along with the facade.