Hooray for Rakestraw
Go, Mary Rakestraw, go! And your supportive colleagues as well!
At last we have someone prepared to call on the city manager, Mitchell Johnson, for his resignation. Actually, I am amazed that he has not tendered it before now.
It is also amazing how the gossip around Greensboro centers around the continuous survival of this man as our city manager.
When we look at the totally undiplomatic handling of police Chief Wray, who obviously had cause to investigate members of his force, we wonder how it is that Johnson is still there.
Wray had "just cause" to investigate certain officers and it should have been left to him to handle it in a businesslike manner without interference. But this mess does not just stop there.
I trust that the council has the moral fiber to call for Johnson's dismissal and put a stop to this debacle ... unless, of course, he jumps the gun and resigns.
To say I am disgusted with the handling of this entire debacle is an understatement of what I really think!
Robert G. Bell
Greensboro
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Yet another relative of Rakestraw writes a letter of support! What a joke.
Posted on February 27, 2008 4:44 PM
How can you expect a dumb ass to resign when he is allowed to get away with the mess he covers up by going after others jobs. Needless to say, liberal conservative, maybe you should walk in the shoes of those of us who have been screwed by such a corrupt system and then you would be better qualified to call the shots. I quite agree, that David Wray, as a professional in doing his job for more than 20 years, obviously was able to see that there were problems under his command that needed addressing. What would you say that Bellamy has done? NOTHING!!! I know, I have been to him more than six times, and I have a personal inside scoop on the corruption and the coverup that Linda Miles and Johnson conspired to carry out. Maybe an investigation should be done on Mitch Johnson's job performance since this facade of bs started and what lies at the bottom of the coverup, but the lawyers who control the city council and Mike Barber. There will never be justice until there is reform within the city of Greensboro and its police department that is corroded with corruption and drugs in its current staff. Even a dumb person knows that as long as drug lord police officers are reinstated, then how long do you think it will be before crime is eradicated from the streets of Greensboro and those persons who spend their lives working are robbed or killed all for a drug con to steal and kill and then be let loose back into society by the courts and those judges who condone drugs and cop killers. Take it for what it's worth.
Posted on February 27, 2008 9:45 PM
How can you expect a dumb ass to resign when he is allowed to get away with the mess he covers up by going after others jobs. Needless to say, liberal conservative, maybe you should walk in the shoes of those of us who have been screwed by such a corrupt system and then you would be better qualified to call the shots. I quite agree, that David Wray, as a professional in doing his job for more than 20 years, obviously was able to see that there were problems under his command that needed addressing. What would you say that Bellamy has done? NOTHING!!! I know, I have been to him more than six times, and I have a personal inside scoop on the corruption and the coverup that Linda Miles and Johnson conspired to carry out. Maybe an investigation should be done on Mitch Johnson's job performance since this facade of bs started and what lies at the bottom of the coverup, but the lawyers who control the city council and Mike Barber. There will never be justice until there is reform within the city of Greensboro and its police department that is corroded with corruption and drugs in its current staff. Even a dumb person knows that as long as drug lord police officers are reinstated, then how long do you think it will be before crime is eradicated from the streets of Greensboro and those persons who spend their lives working are robbed or killed all for a drug con to steal and kill and then be let loose back into society by the courts and those judges who condone drugs and cop killers. Take it for what it's worth.
Posted on February 27, 2008 9:45 PM
How can you expect a dumb ass to resign when he is allowed to get away with the mess he covers up by going after others jobs. Needless to say, liberal conservative, maybe you should walk in the shoes of those of us who have been screwed by such a corrupt system and then you would be better qualified to call the shots. I quite agree, that David Wray, as a professional in doing his job for more than 20 years, obviously was able to see that there were problems under his command that needed addressing. What would you say that Bellamy has done? NOTHING!!! I know, I have been to him more than six times, and I have a personal inside scoop on the corruption and the coverup that Linda Miles and Johnson conspired to carry out. Maybe an investigation should be done on Mitch Johnson's job performance since this facade of bs started and what lies at the bottom of the coverup, but the lawyers who control the city council and Mike Barber. There will never be justice until there is reform within the city of Greensboro and its police department that is corroded with corruption and drugs in its current staff. Even a dumb person knows that as long as drug lord police officers are reinstated, then how long do you think it will be before crime is eradicated from the streets of Greensboro and those persons who spend their lives working are robbed or killed all for a drug con to steal and kill and then be let loose back into society by the courts and those judges who condone drugs and cop killers. Take it for what it's worth.
Posted on February 27, 2008 9:46 PM