Even with the city’s $1 million subsidy, the white tablecloth Mint restaurant on Fayetteville Street will soon bite the dust.  According to VarmintBites and Wake Community Network the Mint is losing its head chef, pastry chef and operations director.  Anyone who has walked by the empty restaurant a lunch time will know why. 

Of course, Mayor Meeker and the other city council members who voted for the $1 million subsidy will blame the bad economy. Meeker and company will never take responsibility for wasting taxpayer money on this white tablecloth boondoggle. They will also never admit that their taxpayer funded subsidy was to support rich elite in Raleigh, the only segment of the community that could afford expensive food in this restaurant. The liberals on the council could never admit that they support policies that take from the poor and give to the rich. 

 Even the N&O “gets it,” or at least gets part of it.  Today’s editorial demands more police for southeast Raleigh to clean up the 300 block of N. Tarboro Street that is plagued with murders and drugs.  Of course, it would ask too much for the N&O to make a link between the City Council spending $1 billion on Fayetteville Street improvements and virtually nothing on police protection for in SE Raleigh.