Action in Greensboro costs taxpayers plenty
In Jim Melvin's letter (Feb. 28), it was nice to hear that VF Corp. is doing well in a competitive market and hence making a contribution to Greensboro, along with several other major corporations.
However, Action Greensboro had nothing to do with VF relocating its headquarters here. Its chairman was from here and wanted to return. Sorry, Jim. Nice try.
As we all now know, Action Greensboro was founded to be a cheerleader for a new stadium and only that. Its attempt to meld it into the Chamber of Commerce is proof. And in keeping with Melvin's penchant for cheap, we did not get a free ballpark, will not get a free park with water downtown, and if he thinks Bellemeade Village will be free, he's out of touch.
The vacillating pols he's influenced recently are tax-happy, so his schemes once again will come out of our collective pocket. Does he have any ideas he can afford?
Bob Guertin
Greensboro
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"As we all now know, Action Greensboro was founded to be a cheerleader for a new stadium and only that." Horse-hockey. Action GSO was founded mostly as a result of careful analysis of the McKinsey Report's findings, which can be found here in PDF format:
http://www.actiongreensboro.org/documents/reports/McKinsey1.pdf
As for why VF relocated here, Mackay McDonald is a big Action GSO supporter. Jim Melvin didn't claim cause and effect; your attempt to imply that he did is disingenuous.
Action Greensboro "melded" into the Chamber? Pshaw. It's part of the Partnership. Get your facts right.
Everyone mentioned in Bob's letter is working very hard to bring jobs to the area and grow the faltering economy, Jim Melvin especially. What's the beef? Economic development? Rejuvenated downtown> Are CAVE dwellers that negative that they rant about a new beginning and egad! the harbinger of success?
Posted on March 5, 2005 10:02 AM
Poor Bob. He stood up for what he believed on the stadium, which is admirable, and lost in a fair fight...but now he can't move on, and accept good news as good news, and there is so much good news in Greensboro these days.
Posted on March 5, 2005 7:20 PM
I'll repeat what I said before. Mackey is a supporter of Action Greensboro but is also instrumental in the laying off of thousands of American employees. He siphoned money out of VF, left, and then returned to siphon more. All to feather his nest. I could care less about baseball, but Mackey didn't move here because of baseball OR Action Greensboro. He relocated here because wages were lower and this area was the center of the textile industry. VF relocated here many YEARS ago. Not recently. So any ties to Action Greensboro were not there regardless of what Mackey supports now.
Posted on March 7, 2005 10:18 AM
Bob: Stop breaking those pills in half; take the whole pill.
Posted on April 14, 2005 3:28 PM