Your new Greensboro City Council
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The counting is done. Here is your new City Council, Greensboro. The throw-the-bums-out initiative was only moderately successful. Only one incumbent city council member was defeated. Three of the new council members are hardly new faces, one is a former city council member and two are former county commissioners. The mayor is new, but she's been a council member for years.
How do you like what you've done?
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The people have spoken and the results speak for themselves. This will be a very interesting City Council. Hopefully, they will not turn into the "New County Commissioners" and we can see some civility between all of the strong personalities. Yvonne Johnson is a great choice for mayor and she will try her best to be a bridge-builder but it will be hard with that bunch. Mike Barber is joined by Robbie Perkins as the two-most wanting to be Mayor(or who thinks they are the most important and most self promoting) and Mary Rakestraw is a caricature of a public official. But, all in all a very strong council.
Posted on November 7, 2007 8:52 AM
Shame Diane Bellamy Small did not to lose her seat to a much better choice, Tonya Clinkscale. I guess Ms. Small giving away all those free bus tickets paid off for her. Looks those folks made it to the polls.
Posted on November 7, 2007 12:16 PM
Better choice...Tonya Clinckscale???? What do you actually know about her? Nothing, no one does, she is a phantom candidate. Done nothing, no experience, no knowledge; bad choice for the district.
The only reason she got any votes was the anti-incumbent attitude in the City of Greensboro.
By the way, the bus tickets Bellamy-Small gave out went to homeless people and single parents, so are you saying it is a shame that they voted? No, Shame on you.
Posted on November 7, 2007 2:49 PM
why is it that joe spencers garagewas moved off of grove st and guess what mrs bellamy there is a herd of indigent mexicans movinf more junk in as i speak .the vehicles were moved from 1701 grove st where a garage was half ass built junky as hell and junk cars are in the garage yard and both sides of the street
i would bet there was no bldg permit on this site.mrs bellamy this needs to be takencare of i understand you want to clean up glenwood so you need to get off the couch and go to bat
Posted on November 18, 2007 6:17 PM