DGI Chair Dawn Chaney gives to Nancy Vaughan, Liaison to DGI, who says what's still broken is now fixed
http://hartzman.blogspot.com/2013/08/dgi-chair-dawn-chaney-gives-to-nancy.html
So right after
Same shit, different day.
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DGI, city appear to be mending fences
"...the city appears to be ready to give Downtown Greensboro Inc. another chance and possibly more funding.
...City Council members are supportive of the changes that DGI has made as well as a 27 increase in funding from the city. DGI is requesting $920,000, which is about 70 percent of the group's budget.
...the city and DGI have been engaged in a months-long, highly public squabble in which the City Council publicly stated that the organization ...did not have the necessary vision for future downtown development.
City Council in February voted to explore alternative marketing options for downtown. Later that month, DGI and the City Council formed a task force to examine the relationship between the two groups and to explore new directions and responsibilities.
Business Journal, May 31, 2013
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DGI Chair Dawn Chaney cuts Nancy Vaughan a check six days before the article is written.
This is what's wrong with Greensboro.
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Here's what you get if you try to look this issue up at the News & Record;
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| http://www.news-record.com/home/779341-63/city-may-dump-downtown-greensboro/ |
Billy Jones; Ed Wolverton Leaves DGI [via a Nancy Vaughan negotiated deal]: Nothing Changes, Apr 19, 2013, about a month before Dawn Chaney's payoff.
"DGI Chairwoman Dawn Chaney, announced today that Downtown Greensboro Incorporated President, Ed Wolverton will be leaving July 1st in an "amicable" arrangement. This comes from the same news report that states:
"The decision comes after a months-long, highly public squabble between the city of Greensboro and DGI, in which the City Council publicly stated that the organization and Wolverton did not have the necessary vision for future downtown development."
Seriously, Ms Chaney, do you take Greensboro citizens for stupid? Ed Wolverton did exactly what the Downtown Greensboro Incorporated Board of Directors directed him to do for 15 years and now that Dawn Chaney and others on the DGI board have been caught with their fingers in the piggy bank, Ed Wolverton gets the boot.
You see, it's evidenced in this statement:
"While the City Council and Perkins have been vocal in their criticism of DGI’s vision, they have been relatively vague about specifics of what kind of new vision and direction they would like to see. Perkins...has provided few other details.
Chaney said that the new vision for downtown could include examining the potential for development of vacant land in downtown Greensboro for additional walkways, retail shops and office buildings."
...The Mayor, City Council, DHG Board and Downtown property owners determine what gets built there, not Ed Wolverton or any other DGI employee.
...With the help of the Tast Force, the DGI board has indeed sealed its own fate.
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How much other peoples money has been funneled to Nancy Vaughan's campaign via Dawn Chaney/DGI bundling is unknown.
Nancy Vaughan then voted for the teen curfew and the club killing noise ordinance.
I counted 22 "donations" on the same day Dawn paid Nancy, and 20 the day before;
http://www.co.guilford.nc.us/elections_cms/docs/2013/midyr/VAUGHAN_NANCY_midyr13.pdf
What is bundling?
"Bundling
One consequence of the limitation upon personal contributions from any one individual is that campaigns seek out "bundlers"—people who can gather contributions from many individuals in an organization or community and present the sum to the campaign.
...Although bundling existed in various forms since the enactment of the FECA, bundling became organized in a more structured way in the 2000s, spearheaded by the "Bush Pioneers" for George W. Bush's 2000 and 2004 presidential campaigns.
During the 2008 campaign the six leading primary candidates (three Democratic, three Republican) had listed a total of nearly two thousand bundlers."
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If anybody reading this thinks this is the way to get positive economic growth for our community with the same cronyism that infects our job growth, it's not going to happen with the same people running the show.
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