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Pay hike raises issue of board's judgment

To all the voters and citizens of Greensboro and Guilford County: Wake up. Demand an explanation from the Democrats who voted themselves a 41 percent pay increase and gave $250,000 to the Civil Rights Museum without public input.

I have been a registered Democrat since I was old enough to vote, and the current Democratic county commissioners are a joke. They seem only to want what is best for them and their special interests with no concern for the voters who elected them. I urge all voters, Democrat and Republican, to get together and rid the county of the current Democratic commissioners in the next election.

As for you, Mr. Paul Gibson, I voted for you in the last election, and that was my mistake. It's certain that Mr. Alston does your thinking for you.

Herman L. Browning
Greensboro

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Yvonne said:

I am also a registered democrat but agree with you on this, Herman. Corrupt politicians come in many sizes, colors and party affiliations.

steve said:

dig up

Norma Rae said:


You are right, Herman, people in this county better wake up and vote out these people! And,yes, Paul Gibson has been a big disappointment. Just another one of Skippy's puppets.

Jay said:

Well said Herman and I totally agree with Norma Rae. The people of this county MUST wake up or things will only get worse. As long as people continue to be robots at the polls, these politicians will continue to screw us.

Allen said:

I've said it before, I'll say it again. When election time comes, get one of Mr. Alston's ballots and DO NOT vote for any of his picks. Unfortunately, we cannot get rid of Mr. Alston because his constituents will vote for him as long as he runs.

truth said:

Sorry, Hugh, but the words "you are a racist" just don't carry the punch they used to carry. Thanks to folks like Skip Alston, they mean little at all.

liz said:

This is just one more reason why our Trudy Wade must remain.

Lilly said:

Yay for Trudy Wade!!

Orchid said:

Boo for Lilly!!!

Orchid said:

Lilly, you got yer dentures fixed yet or you still runnin' round gummin' it?

steve said:

John Wilkes Booth is too badly decomposed to glue him back together, I went with a more contemporary assassin. Oswald got a bad rap, so I'll leave him be. Anyone who doesn't believe in free speech is selling their soul to political correctness. (God bless Biggie, Tupac and Malcolm X)

steve said:

Now that's what I call free speech!

6-Star Gen. Slak said:

Skip Alston has officially given Bruce Davis a promotion to be his new "Cabana Boy".A trip to Hawaii will allow Bruce to learn first hand the duties of his new position.

This promotion will allow Paul Gibson to take over Bruces' old job as Skips' "JOCKEY BOY".

Gibson has already shown that he lacks the big balls it takes to stand up and make decisions on his own.

Gibson should look cute in his little riding pants as he washes Skips' car or spends the afternoon shining Skips' shoes.

Sarah said:

Hey General Slack, don't you mean "the positions of his new duty."

BTW, can somebody tell me what I'm getting for the extra money I'm paying to these incompetent commissioners. I mean the whole lot of them, reps and dems.

Lilly, my teenage son was screwing with you on the AJ letter the other night. I put a foot in his butt for posting the stuff he did using my id. Just so you know in the future, I don't rap or try to. :)

Lilly said:

Thank you Sarah. :)

Sarah said:

Lilly, who is this Orchid?

One other thing on the AJ letter. I did graduate form UNC, but I wouldn't be that immature to go back and forth with insults. I left that in '85.

Now, will someone pleeeeeeease tell me what I'm getting for my money with that Board of Dorks.

steve said:

Allen, Go grab you some lunch. I promise not to be evil for an hour. See you at 1:53!

Hugh said:

I see the liver spined admins at the NR deleted my post where Steve's initial reply to this thread, "dig up James Earl Ray" was exposed as being posted as single words over the next three threads.

Pathetic cowards.

steve said:

Dig up James Earl Ray. Or was it Raoul? Hugh, see you tonight at the "Palms".

Mac said:

Geeze Louise, it took this pay raise to make everyone wonder about the competency of the Commission? Y'all go back to sleep now.

truth said:

Hugh,

I saw it and now it's gone. It's like magic. Don't worry, you weren't the first to have your entire post scrubbed. I'm proud to say that was me. Although I must give Steve proper credit because he was the first to have individual words deleted. (or at least I think he was....)

But why yours this morning was deemed to be more offensive than Orchid's back to back to back to back slams on Lilly, I'm all shrugs.

steve said:

Boo!

steve said:

(it must have been a black orchid)

Lilly said:

Yup Hugh it's funny how they delete certain posts, but check out the ones "orchid" did in the teacher pay article.
I guess the rules of whatever do not apply to this "orchid" person.
I was personally attacked, slandered, and I don't appreciate the cyber police of the N&R allowing certain people to do whatever they want and others they censor.
I find no humor in those posts, even if they weren't directed at me personally.
So N&R cyber police you better start enforcing your "policy", which btw does not come up when you click on the link, (you might wanna fix that) or else you might find yourself in a meeting with your attorneys. :) That might not be a bad idea anyway.. go sit down with them, discuss the liability issues with this forum and the censoring of some and not others.

Lilly said:

Thats what I'm talkin bout "truth".
steve.. if it was a black orchid, it sure didn't represent very well. :)

Orchid said:

Lilly is soooo ugly...the doctor slapped her mama when she was born!

Orchid said:

Amazin how the loud-mouth, know-it-alls who don't have a pot to pee in are always the first to claim they're gonna SUE!!! Guess they figure that's the only way they're possibly ever gonna get a pot to pee in! Yer honor, that Orchid called my client Lilly an ugly name! The stress from all this ugly-name-callin' has caused my client, Lilly, much pain and sufferin'! On top of everything else, my client, Lilly, has no teeth and therefore she has been confined to her mobile home and surrounding trailer park with only Pabst Blue Ribbon beer to drink and potted meat product to eat. Her 86 Ford Escort has a busted timing belt and 4 bald tires. Her old man ain't paid the child support for her 4 yungins in over a year! So...yer honor...you can well see why my client, Lilly, who runs her mouth to everybody, but can't take any lip back, could make nice use of someone else's hard-earned money as a settlement for all the pain and sufferin' she's dealt with as a result of bein' called all these ugly names. Thank you.

Tired of lies said:

People...focus...focus. Can we get back to the subject at hand and save the insults for the politicians?

truth said:

Well, I thought the redneck joke about being married 3 times and still having the same in-laws was pretty funny. The rest were kind of downhill after that.

truth said:

I bet if the jokes were directed at ignorant black people instead of rednecks, they would have disappeared faster than you can say ni

steve said:

truth, I tried your theory out today and you are 100% right. Ni!

Lilly said:

Keep digging your whole.

Orchid said:

Lilly, go back to watchin' Springer...

steve said:

Lilly,

Please ignore this bastard. You'll be the bigger person if you do. You are loved by 90% of us here, don't let the other ten get you down.

Lilly said:

Ok steve, I will. I'm glad YOU STILL love me. TY.

Another One said:

Hey Orchid, are you really Skippy in disguise?

And Lilly, no one in this God-for-saken state enforces their "policies". They make them in the hopes that everyone will jump when threatened and they expect us to squeal on each other. There are no "natives" with any balls.

Joe Schmoe said:

Look after the first couple, it was funny. Now it's becoming monotonous. I think we get the point that Orchid doesn't like Lilly. One consolation is that Orchid doesn't have much of an imagination and will get to the end of the Big Redneck Joke Book. Then she'll run out of things to write.

Tired of lies said:

I've already asked Lilly if she was married, so she knows I love her!! ;o)

Lilly said:

awwww bless your hearts. :)
You guys are fun, and I love you too. :)

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