Quotes from the City Council's two-day retreat
"I respect them, but I don't like them."
- Mayor Keith Holliday on open meetings and public records law, during a discussion on how to skirt those laws.
Yvonne Johnson: "First off, there are no dumb questions."
Mike Barber: "I disagree with that. There are dumb questions."
"The public is saying, 'Why pour more money into this when we haven't seen anything done?'"
- Tom Phillips on the International Civil Rights Center and Museum
"It seems like what they've been doing hasn't worked."
- Goldie Wells on the museum's fund-raising efforts.
"If you want to write the obituary for Greensboro, let us drop out of that third spot."
- Barber on the potential for Greensboro to drop from the state's third biggest city after the 2010 Census.
"I think we need to address it, because Goldie (Wells) is going to keep bringing it up until we do."
- Holliday on Wells' efforts to force council members to discuss the Truth and Reconciliation Commission's 400-page report on the 1979 Klan/Nazi shootings.
"It's the same little three black folk who are on the council."
- Wells about the council members who are willing to discuss the commission's findings, referring to herself, Johnson and Dianne Bellamy-Small.
"I've just been a little bit distressed because I think everything has been so secretive."
- Sandra Anderson Groat on her impressions of the city's "upper staff."
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Thank you Ms. Banks. These quotes clearly indicate the character, mentality and priorities of the members of our City Council.
Posted on January 24, 2007 11:56 AM