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"How long will the good people of our community have to keep forking out millions of our hard-earned dollars to these poorly managed projects?"

As long as we put up with it and keep voting these people into office.

The latest from the International Civil Rights Museum has me very puzzled. It is said that the foundations of the building are not safe and that a major repair job must be done before anything else can go forward.

How long has that building been there? No one noticed until a few months ago that there was some kind of foundation problem. I see someone angling for a big time Federal grant to line their personal pockets with. How many years has the "museum" been in the "we are gonna" stage?

I have much admiration for the honor and dignity of the sit-in movement. Those brave men didn't know if a lynch mob was going to pull them off those stools and skin them alive. The conduct of those four men not only gave America a pang of conscience, it also gave many others the courage to stand up for equal treatment of all black Americans.

The museum would be better served if these crooks were denied any further financing. Sell it to Bill Cosby, Oprah or Michael Jordan (let's do something truly proactive!). Let's do whatever it takes to retain some of the good from the original cause.

"How long will the good people of our community have to keep forking out millions of our hard-earned dollars to these poorly managed projects? It makes one wonder why Skip Alston is always involved in them. For this he gives himself a raise. Give me a break.:
*applauding wildly* Very well said. Skip needs to GO DOWN...........................

Skippy will suck money out of this community (and local government) as long as we get on our knees every time he plays the race card.
His game is extortion, a la Jesse Jackson. That money pit of Woolworth's is shameful. Millions of dollars and nothing to show for it.
Where's the money, Skippy?

What's interesting to me is that I used to go down town and shop in that Woolworth's right up until the time they shut the doors. Millions and millions of dollars later, the building no longer is fit to be occupied. Things that make you go hmmmmmmmmmm.

Complain all you want but there is very little that can be done to change the political power structure in Guilford County , short of returning to the At Large system and making Council elections partisan. The District system gives us City Council members and County Commissioners for life. This tyranny is made possible by a coalition of solidly minority district seats plus a few fools like Paul Gibson who vote to give us larger and larger goverment and tax increases year after year to feed this monster plus fund some of Alston's pet projects like the Civil Rights Museum. By the way, in case you missed it two of our Guilford County Representatives in Raleigh, " Way Too " Pricey Harrison and Alma Adams, got the state to give Skippy and Earl another $100,000.00 to squander on that money pit. Kay Hagan, who has ambitions beyond the NC legislature, and who is outright owned by Skip's crowd, chimed in and said she thought this was a good use of the peoples money. Yikes and they are scrambling to balance a budget down there !

Yes Mr. Frye, there was Project Homestead and St. James II. Don't forget about Earl Jones and his Community Action Project. When finally audited after being at the trough all those years he couldn't account for beans. The state turned of the spigot on his personal piggy bank.
Jones cried racism and filed suit in federal court.Insofar as I know Jones is still delinquent on his employee withholding taxes with the IRS unless Skip got the county to make good on the debt for his pal Earl.

Then there is Mayor Pro-Tem Yvonne Johnson who was taking public monies for her "One Step Further " while her deadbeat lawyer husband was owing the state and federal tax departments hundreds of thousands of dollars.

What we have here is a scum filled swamp that needs draining. Vote Republican.

wow solon, i hope you have educated the masses with that post. At least I had no idea about Mayor Pro-Tem's hubby.
I agree, lets drain the swamp.
I think steve and "truth" will be good divers.
I'll hang out on the boat and direct. :)

Could all of this be Bush fault ? He gets the blame for everything else. Are could this be the DEMOCRATS buying votes with our hard earned TAX DOLLARS?