Keith at Triadwatch calls WFMY's Justin Quesinberry piece on the scrapped plans to fly elected officials to Washington on a developer's plane a "puff piece." I disagree.
Prior to Quesinberry's story, we had no indication that city and county legal officials had issued opinions that the trip would be inappropriate. Prior to Quesinberry's story, the (Greensboro) News & Record had only reported Walker Sanders of the Community Foundation of Greater Greensboro as saying there were "concerns raised by city staff." It was WFMY's Quesinberry who ferreted out the important facts that those staff were lawyers and those concerns were over legal propriety. Good job, Justin.
agree to disagree but this issue has a lot of legs and i am sure in future these outings to other cities, will get closer scrutiny on how and when local elected officials can go and how is it paid for. Glad to bring out the transparency along with you on this issue.
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