INCUMBENT
4311 King Arthur Place, 27405
Age: 66 (Oct. 26)
Campaign website: yvonnejohnsonformayor.com
Occupation and employer: Executive director, One Step Further
Previous elective experience: Elected mayor in 2007, has served on city council since 1993, including six years as mayor pro tem
Civic volunteer experience: Member, Malachi House board of directors; helped found Summit House and helped bring Delancey Street to Greensboro; first president, Women’s Resource Center; chairwoman of the board of Trustees, Bennett College; Piedmont Triad Partnership; Downtown Greensboro Inc.; Transportation Advisory Committee; liaison, Willow Oaks and Southside; has served on the boards of Foster Friends, Sports Dreams and the Greensboro Arts Council; member, Greensboro Urban Area Metropolitan Planning Organization Transportation Advisory Committee
Education: Masters in guidance and counseling, NC A&T University
What is the city and state of your birth? Greensboro
Paid consultants working on your campaign: None
Campaign managers: Gabrielle Beard and Jacqueline Kpeglo
Money raised (Sept. 22): $31,497
Money spent (Sept. 22): $29,761
Core positions: Public investment in infrastructure, development of siteready land and tax incentives • Develop waste-to-energy technology at White Street Landfill, but opposes reopening it to household waste • Inclusion and respect for diversity • Support for green spaces and infill development
Quote: “You would think that... there would be a level of respect and civility.... You can have all the rules of conduct you want. And you can have people speak twice on an issue. You can have people speak for two minutes at the end. But if someone wants to be contentious and nasty, that doesn’t wipe that out. So my suggestion to the people of Greensboro is to select the people that you want to represent you based on knowledge and character and civility.” — Greensboro Neighborhood Congress candidate forum, Oct. 8
Bill Knight
214 Ridgeway Drive, 27403
Age: 71
Campaign website: www.knightformayor.com
Occupation and employer: Retired CPA
Previous elective experience: Candidate for at-large council seat in 2007
Civic and volunteer experience: Board of directors, Greensboro Opera; Parks & Recreation Commission; board of directors, regional engineering firm; former positions held: president, Hamilton Lakes Lions Club; board of directors, Greensboro Jaycees; executive committee, Greater Greensboro Open Golf Tournament; finance committee, Goodwill Industries; honorable discharge, US Coast Guard; treasurer, Congressman Howard Coble
Education: BA in economics, UNCG
What is the town of your birth? Leaksville
Moved here: 1952
Paid consultants working on campaign: Bill Burckley
Campaign manager: Self
Money raised (Sept. 22): $15,211
Money spent (Sept. 22): $8,068 Core positions: Bringing
back a business focus to city government • Receptive to proposals for
privatized waste disposal operation at White Street Landfill
• The city should pay legal costs and issue an apology to former police Chief David Wray and his associates
• Would convene CEOs for advice, make sure real-estate and development community is heard on zoning matters
Quote: “I would like to be sure going forward that as we select new administration into the police department command group that we’re doing it based on ability and qualifications. We have had one chief selected because of race. We’ve had another interim chief — don’t know what his…. We had another chief who was basically forced out on racial issues. And we have a chief today who, in my opinion, is there primarily because of race.” — Piedmont Triad League of Women Voters candidate forum, Sept. 15
CHALLENGERSandra Anderson
INCUMBENT
Groat D
Residential addr.: 505 Daybreak Square N., 27455
Age: 64 Campaign website: None
Occupation and employer: [Incomplete]
Previous elective experience: Serving second term as mayor pro tem
Civic and volunteer experience: Family Life Council, Senior Services of Guilford, Inasmuch, Homes 4 NC, Grace United Methodist Church
Education: Coursework, Greensboro College
What is the city and state of your birth? Sweetwater, Tenn.
Moved: 1966
Paid consultants working on campaign: None
Campaign manager: Martha Faw
Money raised (Sept. 21): $4,745
Money spent (Sept. 21): $4,025
Core positions: Establishing
a 10-year vision that is periodically revisited • Adding more police
officers • Favors allowing police lawsuits to play out in court to
bring closure
Quote: On decision to fire City Manager Mitchell Johnson: “I met with the city manager on a regular basis every Friday morning for a year and publicly supported him. I was not coerced by anybody. But over a period of that year I really just had questions. I just couldn’t get a hundred percent behind him, not because of anything directly to do with the police department. But our city council was divided and a lot of that division was to do with him. And he was just a lightning rod there.” — Guilford County Unity Effort candidate forum, Sept. 22
Gary Nixon
8 Landsend Drive, 27408
Age: 67
Campaign website: None
Occupation and employer: Former owner of engineering company Finkbeiner, Pettis and Strout
Previous elective experience: None
Civic and volunteer experience: Member, Rotary Club of Greensboro; board of directors, Greensboro Symphony Orchestra
Education: MS in engineering, Cornell University; BS in civil engineering, University of Akron
Party registration: Democrat (nonpartisan race)
What is the city and state of your birth? Akron, Ohio
Moved here: 1988 (has been working here since 1980)
Paid consultants working on campaign: None
Campaign manager: Mac Cheek
Money raised: Less than $3,000
Money spent: Less than $3,000
Core positions: Favors
pursuing a regional solid waste solution rather than reopening the
White Street Landfill to household waste • Favors mediation and
settlement over litigation in police controversy • Favors tax
incentives for small- and medium-size businesses, and more rational
approach to resurfacing roads
Quote: “You probably don’t know that 47 percent of the budget — $421 million for the city of Greensboro — is used for water resources, transportation and debt service: my areas of expertise. My approach to resolving differences of opinion will make the city council more effective. In my professional career I helped many communities to create and implement regional approaches to needs…. I’d like to leave you with a thought — that my vision is to create an atmosphere for a unified and progressive city while providing taxpayers with affordable infrastructure, basic services and recreational facilities.” — Guilford County Unity Effort candidate forum, Sept. 22
CHALLENGER
Marikay Abuzuaiter
3601 Brassfield Oaks Drive, 27410
Age: 55
Campaign website: www.vote4marikay.com
Occupation and employer: Owner, Mahi’s Seafood Restaurant, co-owner, curb markets and apartments
Previous elective experience: Ran for at-large seat for Greensboro City Council in 2007
ivic and volunteer experience: Currently
serving on Greensboro Human Relations Commission, co-chair of the
International Advisory Committee, member of Montgomery/Wells Housing
Committee; charter member of LYFE (Love, Youth, Faith and Empowerment)
anti-gang initiative, member, Concerned Citizens of Northeast
Greensboro; member, East Market Street Merchants Association; member,
Greensboro Landlords Association; graduate, Greensboro Citizens
Academy; graduate, IMPACT Greensboro
Education: Bachelor’s degree, Greensboro College
What is the city and state of your birth? Plant City, Fla.
Moved here: 1972
Paid consultants working on campaign: None
Campaign manager: Jo Isler
Money raised (Sept. 21): $2,400
Money spent (Sept. 21): $3,760
Core positions: City
must stop dumping of “screening” (used condoms, tampons, etc.) in White
Street Landfill • More should be done to welcome immigrants and
refugees • Many fees on small business owners are onerous and should be
reduced
Quote: “I guess I think sprawl is a problem in Greensboro. I’m a big proponent of infill development…. Infill development would be trying to take — anyone driving around Greensboro — all the empty shopping centers — my restaurant is, personally, in one right now. All the empty shopping centers, all the areas inside, and we need to perhaps promote these to businesses and perhaps provide a form of incentives to businesses who would go in and fix the shopping centers up. That is a kind of infill development that can only create jobs inside Greensboro.” — Guilford County Unity Effort candidate forum, Sept. 22
CHALLENGER
Robbie Perkins
1612 St. Andrews Road, 27408
Age: 54
Campaign website: www.robbieperkins.com
Occupation and employer: President, NAI Piedmont Triad
Previous elective experience: Served on city council 1993- 2005, 2007-present
Civic and volunteer experience: President of the board of directors for One Step Further; board of trustees, Bennett College; board of trustees, Piedmont Authority for Regional Transportation; member, Greensboro Urban Area Metropolitan Planning Organization Transportation Advisory Committee; member, Heart of the Triad Steering Committee
Education: MBA, Duke University
What is the city and state of your birth? Richmond, Va.
Moved here: 1979
Paid consultants working on campaign: None
Campaign manager: Ross Harris
Money raised (Sept. 28): $4,930
Money spent (Sept. 28): $1,273
Core positions: Council
should set policy but avoid micromanaging staff • Opposes reopening
White Street Landfill to household waste, and believes proposals to do
so have been divisive • Strong supporter of regional approach to
economic development, and investing in infrastructure to attract
corporate employers
Quote: On the White Street Landfill: “I don’t like the tenor of that discussion and the way it’s being framed in this community. This issue has torn the guts out of this city. The city council made a decision — Ms. [Nancy] Vaughan was a part of it, and I was a part of it — to not open the White Street Landfill to municipal solid waste. And it wasn’t based solely on the numbers. It was based on the fact that it was the right thing to do for this community.” — Guilford County Unity Effort candidate forum, Sept. 22
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Nancy Vaughan
CHALLENGER
902 Sunset Drive, 27408
Age: 48
Campaign website: www.electnancyvaughan.com
Occupation and employer: Community volunteer
Previous elective experience (including election campaigns): Served 2 terms on Greensboro City Council from 1997 to 2001 before retiring
Civic and volunteer experience: Piedmont
Triad Airport Authority; Greensboro Housing Development Partnership;
Greensboro Beautiful; Junior League; Brownie leader; board of trustees,
Greensboro Day School, co-chaired domestic violence task force for two
years
Education: High school graduate, Roger Ludlowe High School, Fairfield, Ct.; attended Fairfield University for two years
What is the city and state of your birth? Hasbrouck, NJ
What year did you move here? 1988
Paid consultants working on campaign: Bill Burckley
Campaign manager: Self
Money raised (Sept. 21): $17,721
Money spent (Sept. 21): $8,348
Core positions: •
Opposed to reopening White Street Landfill to household waste •
Candidates for elective office should disclose their financial
interests • City needs full airing of the facts in police controversy.
If the city is guilty of institution racism, address it; if not, the
city should be vindicated
Quote: “The RMA report has basically been discredited. We need to address that. We need to get our money back on that report.” — News & Record, Sept. 7
Luther T. Falls JR.
1603 Lansdown Ave., 27401
Date of birth: 55
Campaign website: None
Occupation and employer: Life and health insurance agent, Western-Southern Life Assurance Co.
Civic volunteer experience: Secretary
and marketing director, Watchful Network Inc.; Wiley Community Panel (a
partnership between Wiley Elementary and Degussa-Stockhausen; founding
member, St. Stephen United Church of Christ; secretary of board of
trustees and assistant superintendent of Sunday School, St. Stephen
United Church of Christ; past chairman, Greensboro Community Resource
Board; Alpha Phi Fraternity Inc.
Education: MBA in marketing and international business, Katz Graduate School of Business at the University of Pittsburgh
What is the city and state of your birth? Greensboro
Paid consultants working on your campaign: None
Campaign manager: Kassinda Ross
Money raised: Less than $3,000
Money spent: Less than $3,000
Core positions: District
1 needs a representative with business connections • Would establish a
youth task force to work with him • Neighborhoods should be proactive
and cooperate with police to enhance public safety
Quote: “My neighborhood, when I was growing up, the neighbors looked out for each other. And if that didn’t work, then we called the police. I went to Bluford, Lincoln and Dudley. That’s my village. And they did very good with me.” — YES! Weekly, Sept. 23
CHALLENGER
Danny Thompson
6410 Spyglass Drive, 27410
Age: 47
Campaign website: www.votefordanny.com
Occupation and employer: Owns and operates Comfort Keeper, a home healthcare company
Previous elective experience: Student council at Asbury College
Civic and volunteer experience: President,
Triad Retirement Living Association; board member, Summit Rotary Club;
former member, Guilford County Commission on Aging; 1992 graduate of
Leadership Greensboro; loaned executive for United Way; ambassador for
Greensboro Chamber of Commerce; Sunday school teacher, Friendly Hills
Church
Education: Bachelors degree with major in psychology, Asbury College; nationally certified geriatric care manager
What is the city and state of your birth? Greensboro
Paid consultants working on campaign: None
Campaign manager: Self
Money raised: Less than $3,000
Money spent: Less than $3,000
Core positions: Favors
infrastructure investment, zero-based budgeting, cutting taxes, selling
naming rights to coliseum, incentives for small business
•
Would like to see more representation of gays and lesbians and people
of different ethnicities on city’s boards and commissions
• Opposed to reopening White Street Landfill to household waste
Quote: “Economic growth, to the greatest extent, is at the whim of a developer or a business owner that wants to build or to transfer or to develop. The city council can go a long way in helping in development of under-utilized, undergrowth areas by providing incentives to developers, whether it’s a major grocery store chain or whatever, by saying, ‘Look, we have a group of people in our city that don’t have a grocery store on the east side — a large supermarket — so what would it take, Food Lion, Harris Teeter, Lowe’s, for us to work with you to get a supermarket in there?’” — Guilford County Unity Effort candidate forum, Sept. 22
CHALLENGER
Nettie Coad
706 Martin Luther King Drive, 27406
Age: 73
Campaign website or blog: www.vote4nettie.com
Occupation and employer: “Mother, wife (husband deceased), friend, churchgoer”
Previous elective experience: None
Civic and volunteer experience: Chair, Greensboro Redevelopment Commission; Greensboro Health Disparities Collaboration; Boy Scout leader
Education: Graduate, Dudley High School; management supervision coursework, GTCC; organizing instruction, Marin Institute
What is the city and state of your birth? Anderson, SC
What year did you move here? 1938 or 1939
Paid consultants working on campaign: None
Campaign manager: Quentin L. Richardson
Money raised (Sept. 21): $5,194
Money spent (Sept. 21): $4,872
Core positions: Redevelopment
and revitalization of struggling neighborhoods• Educating citizens on
institutional racism • Efforts to help homeless can have unintended
consequences and destabilize poor neighborhoods • Proponent for
diversity on city boards and commissions
Quote: “I’m going to serve the people, because people matter. And not only do I bring the skills, but I understand how it works. I know where resources are, and how to advocate and bring them to this city for people. I’ve worked with students at all the colleges here in Greensboro, so I have a rapport. I know where the newcomers are. I know where the needs are. And I bring a spirit of collaboration, integrity, that I can work with the council, that we can work together as a team to address the concerns and the issues for the citizens of Greensboro.” — Guilford County Unity Effort candidate forum, Sept. 8
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Jim Kee
4301 Lord Jeff Drive, 27405
Date of birth: 51
Campaign website: www.votejimkee.com
Occupation and employer: Kee Development Corp.
Previous elective experience: None
Civic volunteer experience: Mayor’s
Steering Committee (a citizens’ board that advises Mayor Yvonne
Johnson); board of directors, Greensboro Historical Museum; previously
served on Board of Adjustments and as chairman of the Firemen’s Relief
Fund
Education: BS in economics, NC A&T University
What is the city and state of your birth? Garysburg, NC
If not Greensboro, what year did you move here? In 1977 to attend college, returned in 1989 and has lived here since
Paid consultants working on your campaign: None
Your campaign manager: Jessica Foster-Bragg
Money raised (Sept. 21): $6,267
Money spent (Sept. 21): $3,100
Core positions: Would establish citizen boards for economic development, public safety and environmental safety
• Favors collaborative process, incentives, efforts to attract investment to northeast Greensboro
• Takes partial credit for closing White Street Landfill to household waste, and opening McGirt-Horton Library • Favors hiring additional fire and police officers
Quote: “We’re planning to revamp Phillips Avenue from Huffine Mill Road to Summit Avenue. We’re talking millions of dollars that we’re asking the city to invest. We’re going to tear down Claremont Courts. I met with Tina Akers-Brown, and she says the Greensboro Housing Authority will be getting federal stimulus money to do that. If the city council approves it, Phillips Avenue will be totally different. Lives will be totally different Hopefull, if we have the right people on council, they’ll approve it.” — Concerned Citizens of Northeast Greensboro meeting, June
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Dianne Bellamy-Small
3211 Delmonte Drive, 27406
Age: 57
Campaign website: www.bellamysmallforcouncil.com
Occupation and employer: Trainer. ECAC/NCPIRC
Previous elective experience: Currently
serving third term on Greensboro City Council; candidate, Greensboro
School Board; 24 years experience as an election official; survived
2007 recall election; president, NC Black Elected Municipal Officials
Civic and volunteer experience: NC
state youth advisor, NAACP; Guilford County Coalition on Infant
Mortality, Baby Basics program; Greensboro Historical Museum, Real
McCoy exhibit; Greensboro Public Schools, School Safety Task Force;
Negro League Baseball Recognition, Greensboro Red Wings; Mayor’s Task
Force on Drugs; Greensboro Education and Development Council Community
Advisory Board; class leader, Challenge Greensboro; Friends of Vance
Chavis Lifelong Learning Center; member, St. James Presbyterian Church
Education: BA, music/English, UNC-Chapel Hill; post-graduate studies at UNCG and Duke; Challenge Greensboro; Triad Leadership Network, political fellow, IOPL, fall 2004
What is the city and state of your birth? Winston-Salem
Moved here: 1976
Paid consultants working on campaign: None
Campaign manager: Tim Vincent
Money raised: Less than $3,000
Money spent: Less than $3,000
Core positions: • Southeast Greensboro deserves greater share of infrastructure funding
• Supports current police administration, but city manager has right to override chief on personnel decisions
• Opposed removal of public-art benches in Warnersville, also advocates for homeless
Quote: “What you saw there was a person given an opportunity to be able to have her 15 minutes of fame, with some people pushing her that have not been in that community. I’m very disturbed about it; I’m upset about it…. On the side where she lives there are trees. There were two brothas sitting up under a tree, and they were smoking a cigarette, and it was not a Newport. So now we’re gonna root up the trees? Come on, we gotta do some common-sense kind of things, and stop being the victims of bully politics.” — Greensboro Neighborhood Congress candidate forum, Oct. 12
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CHALLENGER
George Hartzman
2506 Baytree Drive, 27455
Age: 42
Campaign website: www.questionsforgreensboro.com
Occupation and employer: Vice
president investments, Wells Fargo Advisors; president, Think
Professional Education; teaches financial ethics, economics and life
strategies to CPAs
Previous elective experience: None
Civic and volunteer experience: Recreational softball coach
Education: BS and philosophy, Frostburg State University, Maryland
Party registration: Unafilliated (nonpartisan race)
What is the city and state of your birth? Livermore, CA.
Moved here? 1992
Paid consultants working on campaign: None
Campaign manager: Self
Money raised (Sept. 21): $4,675
Money spent (Sept. 21): $914
Core positions: Pass “pay-to-play” ethics reform to establish “cooling off” period for campaign contributions from people with business before city council • Exercise restraint in authorizing bond referenda • Reroute, redesign or don’t build northern segment of Urban Loop Quote: “You have these people who are wanting to do business with the government, and they’re paying for their election. And then they get elected and they put a proposal in front of the people that they paid to get elected. And then the people who got elected vote for the thing that the person wants to have passed. It’s a conflict of interest…. Why aren’t we looking at not letting the people who are contributing to elections not being able to do business with the city for X amount of time before and after they give the money?” — Greensboro Neighborhood Congress meeting, Sept. 12
Zack Matheny
INCUMBENT
205 W. Newlin St., 27408
Age: 36
Campaign website: www.mathenyforcouncil.com
Occupation & employer: Bell Partners
Previous elective experience: Elected to District 3 in 2007
Civic and volunteer experience: 40
Leaders Under Forty Award; adv. board member, UNCG Business
Administration; fundraising chair, Greensboro Bicentennial; executive
committee member, Chrysler Classic of Greensboro; executive, Gso United
Way; Chamber Operating Group and Member Services Council, Gso Chamber
of Commerce; Civil Rights Museum Golf Tournament Organizing Committee;
member, Gsoo Sports Council; Future Fund Steering Committee; Community
Foundation of Greater Greensboro; K for Kids; comm. chair, Can’t Wait
for the Ballpark; , Gso Opera Board; past Master Plan Oversight
Committee member, Downtown Greensboro; Big Brothers, Big Sisters;
Prelude Steering member and 2005 Vanguard fundraising chair, United
Arts Council; Citizen Advisory Board member, Guilf. County
Comprehensive Plan Update; zoning commission member
Education: BS, NC State; series 7, 63 and 66 and insurance licenses
What is the city and state of your birth? Shelby
Moved: 1999
Paid consultants: None
Campaign manager: Elizabeth Rankin
Money raised (Sept. 21): $17,685
Money spent (Sept. 21): $7,529
Core positions: Fiscal
responsibility as part of budget process that did not raise taxes or
increase fees • Responsiveness through neighborhood meetings, and
transparency through recording closed-door sessions of council
• Make sure city staff and nongovernmental allies do a good job of marketing Greensboro to outside corporations
Quote: “I won’t apologize for all the support that I’ve gotten because I volunteered extensively throughout this community. I’ve worked on the boards and commissions of this city.... Because if you get to know the constituency and you work hard, you will get contributions from a myriad of people. And that’s what I’ve done. And I don’t think somebody that doesn’t work hard, that doesn’t volunteer and get to know his constituency... should be rewarded with taxpayer dollars when they didn’t work.” — Gso Neighborhood Congress candidate forum, Oct. 12
Mary Rakestraw
101 E. Avondale Drive, 27403
Age: 61
Campaign website: www.maryrakestraw.com
Occupation and employer: [Incomplete]
Previous elective experience: Serving first term on city council, at- large; served two terms on the Guilford County Commission, 1996-2004
Civic and volunteer experience: Currently
serves as city liaison to the Piedmont Triad Council of Governments;
Friends of the Library Advocacy Committee; Guilford County Agricultural
Advisory Board; board of directors, Summit House; board of directors,
American Red Cross, Greensboro chapter; NC Association of County Boards
of Social Services State Board; advisory board, Court Watch of North
Carolina; Sunday school teacher at First Baptist Church; board member,
Housing Partnership Coalition; member, Kiwanis Club of Greensboro; Paul
Harris Fellow, Crescent Rotary Club; Leadership Greensboro; Other
Voices; adopted a 5 th grade class at Cone Elementary
Education: Certificate in French, University of Brussels
What is the city and state of your birth? [Incomplete]
If not Greensboro, what year did you move here? [Incomplete]
Paid consultants working on your campaign: [Incomplete]
Your campaign manager(s): [Incomplete]
Your treasurer: Phyllis P. Gibbs
Money raised (Sept. 21): $7,495
Money spent (Sept. 21): $3,570
Core positions: Regain
citizens’ trust and respect for police department • “Watchdog over the
taxpayers’ dollars” • Opposed to involuntary annexation
Quote: On former interim City Manager Bob Morgan’s reinstatement of Officer AJ Blake: “I can tell you that I am still feel somewhat concerned with this because I feel that Chief [Tim] Bellamy has been under fire, and a review board made this decision for the termination of Officer Blake. And then it went to Chief Bellamy who also upheld that recommendation. Now, when this was overturned, or his decision was overruled it concerns me because he looked like, well, who’s running the police department? And it looks like his credibility was compromised as well as his decision-making ability.” — Greensboro Neighborhood Congress candidate forum, Oct. 12
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Art Boyett
810 Carriage Crossing, Unit A, 27410
Age: 67
Campaign website: www.boyettforcitycouncil.com, boyettforcouncil.blogspot.com
Occupation and employer: Retired accounting professor, Guilford College
Previous elective experience: None
Civic and volunteer experience: Community theater
Education (highest degree attained and name of institution): Doctorate in accounting, Texas Tech
What is the city and state of your birth? Americus, Ga.
What year did you move here? 2005
Paid consultants working on campaign: None
Campaign manager: Self
Money raised (Sept. 24): $1,551
Money spent (Sept. 24): $1,506
Core positions: Strictly limit closed-session meetings on personnel matters to uphold transparency
•
Make Greensboro “an example of municipal efficiency, effectiveness,
balanced economic growth, as well as civility, racial harmony and
beauty”
• Lack
of civility among elected officials threatens government’s credibility,
and lack of openness between government and citizens escalates mistrust
Quote: “I believe that the city of Greensboro can be a shining light for this region, this state, the whole nation. We have tremendous resources here. We have tremendous people here. We have tremendous educational facilities. We have wonderful cultural programs. We have a beautiful area. All it takes is for the citizens and their government to take hold of what we have and produce a wonderful city.” — Guilford County Unity Effort candidate forum, Sept. 22
CHALLENGER
Trudy Wade
INCUMBENT
1 Creswell Court, 27407
Age: 58
Campaign website: www.trudywade.com
Occupation and employer: Principal and owner, Jamestown Veterinary Hospital
Previous elective experience: District 5 representative on Greensboro City Council; at-large seat, Guilford County Commission, 2000-’05
Civic and volunteer experience: American
Veterinary Medical Association, NC Veterinary Medical Association; Vet.
of the Year, Guil. County Animal Shelter; Outstanding Board of Health
Award, Association of NC Boards of Health; president, American Business
Women’s Association; director, Association of NC Boards of Health;
Friends Home Board of Advisors; Greater Gso Community Health
Partnership; Gso College Board of Visitors; Gso Red Cross Board; chair,
Gso Board of Health; chair, Guilford County Board of Social Services;
Guil. County Economic Development Council; Moses Cone/Wesley Long
Community Health Foundation; Women’s Hospital of Gso Educational
Advisory Board; NC A&T University Federally Funded College Student
Training Program
Education: Doctorate in veterinary medicine, Tuskegee Institute, 1980; bachelor of science in biology, Greensboro College, 1975
What is the city of your birth? Greensboro
Paid consultants working on campaign: [Incomplete]
Campaign manager: [Incomplete]
Money raised (Sept. 22): $16,575
Money spent (Sept. 22): $17,323
Core positions: “Honesty, integrity and accountability in city government” • “Ending the out-of-control increases in taxes and user fees” • Equitable funding for roads, parks and other capital spending for District 5
Quote: “I just want to bring Mitch in and let’s hear from Mitch and his attorneys. I think the majority of us have already made a decision.” — Greensboro City Council closed-session meeting to fire former City Manager Mitchell Johnson, March 3
Joel Landau
6 Collwood Court, 27409
Age: 58
Campaign website: www.joellandau.com
Occupation and employer: General manager, Deep Roots
Previous elective experience: At-large candidate for Greensboro City Council in 2005 and 2007
Civic and volunteer experience: Impact
Greensboro, Neighborhood Committee (2008); co-chair, Greensboro
Community Sustainability Council; member of executive committee and
issues and bylaws committee, Greensboro Neighborhood Congress; former
member, Greensboro Planning Board; member, Cool Cities Greensboro
chapter; board of directors, Brandywine Homeowners Association
(2002-2005); board of directors, Resources for Artful Living
(2001-2004); board of directors, Appalantic Federation of Cooperatives
(1990-1992), board of directors, Citizens for Waste Reduction and
Recycling (1989); board of directors, Deep Roots Cooperative
(1981-1989, 1990-1994)
Education: BS, Cornell University School of Industrial and Labor Relations
Party registration: Democrat (nonpartisan race)
What is the city and state of your birth? New York City
What year did you move here? 1981
Paid consultants working on campaign: None
Your campaign manager: Nick DiVitci
Money raised (Sept. 28): $4,090
Money spent (Sept. 28): $2,421
Core positions: Economic and environmental sustainability, including waste reduction and limiting sprawl
• Provide positive options through recreation centers to prevent crime
• Supports Greensboro Neighborhood Congress’ initiatives with regard to restoring protest petition, renewing RUCO and making city more responsive to public records requests
Quote: “I think we need to change our current development patterns. Sprawl — which I define as developing land at a faster rate than the population is growing — it uses up precious resources. It makes it harder to do mass transit, which we all say we want to do, but you can’t do it when you’re sprawling…. I’d like to see us have a sustainable, green economy, one that has jobs that are going to be around for awhile and that meet the changing needs of the world and the country in terms of what’s happening with markets, energy efficiency and such.” — Guilford County Unity Effort candidate forum, Sept. 8
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