Sen. Trudy Wade’s bill restructuring the Greensboro City Council —originally SB 36 —has –as only the N&R can put it– “taken a strange and dramatic turn,” never mind the fact that “it is not rare for bills to be combined in the legislature,” as Rep. Jon Hardister, R-Guilford explained to our local paper of record.
Wade’s SB 36 has been rolled into the HB 263, the bill restructuring the Trinity City Council. The state Senate is scheduled to vote today on that bill, and if approved will go back to the House for an up or down vote.
Probably don’t even need to mention the N&R doesn’t like this, so I just showed. Still, editorial writer Doug Clark says:
Why are so many people disgusted by politics? Because of actions like those of state Sen. Trudy Wade (R-Guilford) and her powerful allies.
….Greensboro and Trinity shouldn’t be linked in a single bill making council changes to both. That’s an insult to the residents of both cities and to the House members who represent them.
Instead of using the legislative process to bring about any positive change, Wade and her allies are twisting it to serve their own purposes. They’re demonstrating politics at its worst.
Wade said —according to the Rhino — “it’s been reported that the mayor said that the council has lost its focus. I hope this bill will help bring in some new leadership and the new council will find its focus.”
Greensboro Mayor Nancy Vaughan admitted last week that the council has indeed lost focus. Reducing the council from nine members to seven ostensibly would help the council regain focus.
