On the Greensboro Partnership, DGI, the News & Record, Greensboro's City Council and conflicts of interest

If the Greensboro News & Record Editorial Board Member Robin Saul,

is a Board Member of the (partly publicly funded) Greensboro Partnership,

which gave the Quarter Cent Tax Committee $10,500

whose Action Greensboro gave the Bonds for Schools Committee $70,000,

should the paper disclose Mr. Saul's conflict of interest,

when reporting on Greensboro Partnership Greensboro Partnership

agreeing to pay 25% ($19,500) of the cost of a federal lobbyist?

Resolution authorizing the City Manager

to enter into a contract with Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP

to represent the City of Greensboro priorities

to Federal elected officials and agencies.



Greensboro City Council Agenda Item #38

Why would the Greensboro Partnership let the City of Greensboro

pay 75% of a lobbyist bill?



Why does the Greensboro Partnership want to pay

for 25% of a lobbyists bill?



Could some members of the Greensboro Partnership and DGI

personally benefit from the public financing of a lobbyist?



If some members of the Greensboro Partnership and DGI

would not personally benefit from the public financing of a lobbyist,

why would who want to pay for 25% of the bill?



Have some members of the Greensboro Partnership and DGI

directly benefited from taxpayer largess before?



Have many members of the Greensboro Partnership and DGI

funded the political campaigns of those who may vote

to fund a lobbyist that may benefit members of the Greensboro Partnership and DGI?











Notable Downtown Greensboro Contributors

Greensboro Partnership, $25,000.00

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Should Downtown Greensboro Inc. use taxpayer dollars

to lobby the City of Greensboro for more taxpayer dollars?

Triad Watch

Thursday, May 20, 2010

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Joseph M. Bryan Foundation, $11,000.00

Cemala Foundation, $10,000.00

Bell Foundation (Steven D. Bell), $5,000.00

Brown Investment Properties, $1,500.00

Greensboro Regional Realtors Association, $1,210.00

Cone, Elizabeth W., $1,000.00

Elm Street Center, LLC, $1,000.00 (downtown hotel)

The Carroll Companies, $550.00

Milton Kern & Co., Inc., $250.00

Signature Property Group, Inc., $250.00

Schwartz, Susan, $125.00

Brown III, Chester H. & Martha, $100.00

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He who oppresses the poor to make more for himself

or who gives to the rich, will only come to poverty.

Proverbs 22:16

Notable Downtown Greensboro Board Members



Brenda Jones Fox, Guilford County



Mayor Bill Knight



Rashad Young, City of Greensboro



Mike Winstead, Guilford County Commissioner, TREBIC

who has contributed to both Zack and Robbie

Dan Lynch, President of the the partly publicly funded Greensboro Partnership

whose Action Greensboro gave $70,000 to promote the bond vote in 2008

and gave $10,500 to promote the Quarter Cent Tax Increase in 2010,

the Greensboro Economic Development Alliance,

whose board members include Linda Shaw,

who recieved campaign contributions from Roy Carroll and Richard Beard

right before AMEX bought their Guilford County real estate,

and Nancy Vaughan,

who recieved campaign contributions from Downtown Greensboro Board Members

Milton Kern, (downtown hotel)

Randall Kaplan, (downtown hotel) whose patner George House is on the Board

and Frank Auman, whose partner Seth Coker is on the board.



Amelia Parker, executive director of the International Civil Rights Museum



Betty Cone, who worked for former Mayor Johnson’s campaign



Robbie Perkins, 09/21/09, $100 Elizabeth W. Cone



Susan Schwartz, board member of the Children’s Museum,

which received $100,000 from Greensboro’s 2010/11 budget

that was set to cut crossing gaurds and loose leaf collection

but then amazingly ended up spending $1 million more than last year.



Robbie Perkins 09/17/09 $100



Zack Matheny, 09/13/07, $75



Zack Matheny, 09/09/09, $100



Milton Kern, (downtown hotel)

who contributed to Zack Matheny's 2007 political campaign.

Al Leonard, Carroll Companies, Trebic, Center Pointe

who works for Roy E. Carroll III, a major campaign contributor

and board member of the Greensboro Partnership



Robbie Perkins 10/13/09 $250 Roy



Robbie Perkins 10/19/09 $100 Vanessa Carroll



Jim Kee 10/27/09 $100 Vanessa Carroll



Jim Kee 10/27/09 $250 Roy



Jim Kee 10/27/09 $100 Alvin Leonard, Carroll Companies



Zack Matheny 10/23/09 $100 Alvin Leonard, Carroll Companies



Zack Matheny 10/23/09 $250 Roy



Zack Matheny 10/23/09 $100 Vanessa Carroll



Linda Shaw, 09, Roy Carroll, $500



Roy E and Vanessa Y Carroll's

North Carolinians for Leadership in Government PAC

gave Zack, Diane, Robbie, Trudy, Kirk Perkins, Paul Gibson, Yvonne, and Sandra

$1000 each in 2007.

Better is a little with righteousness

than great income with injustice.

Proverbs 16:8

Seth Coker, Signature Property Group, Trebic,

who’s partner Frank Auman is a major political campaign contributor.



Seth Coker, Robbie Perkins, 10/18/09, $100



Seth Coker, Zack Matheny, 08/06/09, $100



Frank Auman, Zack Matheny, 08/28/07, $500



Frank Auman, Zack Matheny, 08/11/09, $500



Frank Auman, Robbie Perkins, 09/15/09, $250



Frank Auman, 09/28/09, Mary Rakestraw, $500

The art of government

consists of taking as much money as possible from one party of citizens

to give to the other

Voltaire

Henri Fourrier, President/CEO/Director of Marketing/Communications

Greensboro Area Convention & Visitors Bureau

The same Henri Fourrier

who sold Greensboro’s electorate on an Aquatic Center

with a non-independent, non third party “hypothetical”

that will most likely cost Greensboro millions

in principal, interest, operating and maintenance costs

and who won't release information

documenting how the Visitors Bureau came up with

a $5.8 million dollar econonomic impact number

for an upcoming swim meet?

Why would the “Consultant”

who created a $14,337,210 hypothetical economic impact “projection,”

say only debt free competitive swim centers work?

Questions for America, December 3rd, 2009

E. Durant Bell, Bell & Company, Zack Matheny’s employer,

who's family and other employees have made 12 campaign contributions

to Zack and Robbie since 2007.

When buying and selling are controlled by legislation

the first thing to be bought and sold are legislators

P J O'Rourke

Kimberly Brown



Chester Brown, TREBIC

Who's family has contributed to Zack, Robbie and Trudy's campaigns.

Fascism should more appropriately be called corporatism

because it is the merger of state and corporate power

Benito Mussolini

George House, Downtown Hotel,

Partner Randall Kaplan is a Greensboro Partnership board member



John Lomax, TREBIC

who has contributed to Zack and Trudy's campaigns

A democracy will continue to exist

up until the time that voters discover

that they can vote themselves generous gifts from the public treasury

From that moment on

the majority always votes for the candidates

who promise the most benefits…

with the result that every democracy

will finally collapse due to loose fiscal policy…

…nations always progressed through the following sequence

From bondage to spiritual faith

from spiritual faith to great courage

from courage to liberty, from liberty to abundance

from abundance to complacency

from complacency to apathy

from apathy to dependence

from dependence back into bondage

Unknown

Notable Greensboro Partnership Board Members



Mr. Randall Kaplan

Capsule Group, LLC



Mr. J. Edward Kitchen

Bryan Foundation



Mr. Charles E. Melvin Jr.

Smith Moore Leatherwood LLP



Mr. Jim Melvin

Joseph M. Bryan Foundation of Greater Greensboro



Mr. Stephen D. Showefty

Koury corporation



Mr. Arthur Samet

Samet Corporation



Mr. R. Steve Bowden

R. Steve Bowden & Associates