"Editorial, May 5: ‘Go out, ... get it done’" Greensboro News and Record Editorial Board

"Mayor Robbie Perkins has said he wants to see DGI take a more active and aggressive role toward recruiting new companies to locate downtown."

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To line the mayor's pockets with lease commissions?
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"The last thing the city needs right now is a City Council that is working at cross purposes with downtown boosters."

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The same DGI who exchanged proposals to lease Nancy Hoffman's building, as Mrs. Hoffman voted to allocate money to DGI to pay for it, coincident with the News and Record not bothering to report it?

Seems pretty cozy.

If DGI has refused to tell Denise Turner Roth disclose where $184,000 in contributions to the Downtown Greensboro Foundation originated, and Dawn Chaney is DGI's chair, and Nancy, Zack and Robbie don't have a problem with the lack of transparency, and now the GPAC fiasco of the donor list and the question of where the other $200,000 remains unanswered, how are downtown boosters are in bed with City Council?

Dawn Chaney is Don Vaughan's client.

More after the jump

If Robbie is on the board of DGI, with TREBIC member Dawn Chaney, who is on the committee to fix DGI, who was also on the RUCO task force which the Editorial Board can't admit got rid of the rental ordinance, and is now on the post RUCO study committee, how is it the Editorial Board thinks DGI is at odds with City Council?

"City representatives included in reaching the agreement were Greensboro Mayor Robbie Perkins, Councilmembers Yvonne Johnson, Zack Matheny and Nancy Vaughan, and City Manager Denise Turner Roth.

DGI was represented by members of its executive committee, including Chair Dawn Chaney."

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So Dawn Cheney is also on the executive committee for The Greensboro Landlord Association, was on the Greensboro Downtown Economic Development Strategy Project Committee, Community Stakeholders and Advisory Group, chairs Greensboro's Redevelopment Commission and now she’s on the committee to fix DGI, with Zack, Robbie and Nancy Vaughan.

Dawn is buddies with Betty Cone and Cemala's Susan Schwartz.

How much does Grassroots Productions owe in back taxes to the City?

Now Grassroots is getting funding through the Community Foundation?

The News and Record runs Milton Kern's call for more taxpayer money after taking taxpayer money for his property, on the same day the Editorial Board calls for more taxpayer money for downtown?

Cross purposes?

This is pathetic.

The paper that won't report DGI and Action Greensboro accounting irregularities waxes propaganda.

The News and Record is part of the problem.

How long was the News and Record saying the GPAC had how much in commitments?

The News and Record shills for the cancer infecting our downtown.

I wonder if they even realize what harm they have done to our community by propping up some taxpayer sucking parasites.

Shame on Action Greensboro, DGI etc..., for their misleading accounting practices and self dealing with everyone else's money.

These are purposeful omissions.

This is the paper who the city depends on for political endorsements.

Why would a business want to locate where crony's own the place with the help of the NandR and the local paid off political leadership.

This is who didn't inform the city of Robbie's personal issues during the last election.

This is who still hasn't reported Robbie's owing federal back taxes when he ran for mayor.

Remember how the Editorial Board didn't call out Bellamy Small for covering Robbie's flank?

Some could have looked it up, but the NandR decided to erase it, so most will go to the polls with less information than last election, especially with the Rhino gone.

This is who shamelessly promoted the GPAC, which now looks like a total farce.

This is who deleted the paper's history twice inside of a decade.

This is who has forfeited the trust of their readers.

Some on city council are paid for pawns of Greensboro's elite.

The NandR is in on it.

Greensboro cannot emerge from this cronyism without fixing this.

Why would businesses looking to open up in Greensboro want to work in an environment without a level playing field?

We are losing jobs because of this.

We are losing economic growth because of this.