In an interesting letter to the editor in today’s N&R, Bill Knight of Greensboro uses Mayor Yvonne Johnson’s “endorsement” of Barack Obama as a call for partisan city government:
Our mayor, speaking for the city of Greensboro, saying the Obama visit would allow Greensboro a role in securing our party’s nomination. Say what? I thought Greensboro’s government is nonpartisan.
This rekindles a thought I have harbored for some time now, particularly since I made a run for City Council last year. Would a change to partisan government help move Greensboro from its stagnant position by challenging a status quo power structure that calls the shots in tandem with the powerful Simkins black voting bloc?
Say what you will about the county commissioners, they seem to have accomplished more in an open government setting than the City Council is capable of doing.
