Does Zack Matheny Have a Napoleon Complex?

It was interesting to see that Zack Matheny felt a need to complain to the media about Danny Thompson's campaign ads.  After all, they are both Republicans; and we are even supposed to believe they are both conservatives.  Are we not?

Zack spent the first three years of his time on the city council as a member of the Melderec con Simkins majority.  Over the last nine months or so, he has dipped his toes in the waters of conservative governance under pressure from the local GOP and perhaps C4GC. 

Of course, it seemed from afar that he never really wanted to vote on the landfill issue very much.  And in fact, when push came to shove over the last several weeks, it became clear he would not vote in favor of reopening the landfill to residential trash if Waste Industries was brought up for a vote.  That had the effect of killing any possibility of switching vendors in order to salvage the effort.

We are led to believe that he is somehow "controlled" by his employer-- a huge real estate concern-- and therefore could not vote on the landfill.

From the earliest days of this city council session, it has been apparent that Matheny, for some reason, has felt the need to undermine Danny Thompson.  It began with his childish insistence upon sitting next to the mayor at council meetings even though he is only a district representative.  It seems there has been a need to drag someone else down in order to boost himself up.

Now, he appoints himself to sit publicly in judgment of Thompson's campaign ads, even though the two men are not running against each other; and even though they are nominally members of the same party.  Somehow, we are to believe that it is Matheny's role as an incumbent District 3 candidate to judge openly other people's campaigns.

Surely, the News and Record loved publishing the story.  Unlike many of their recent local stories, they made this one available online without a hitch.

When Thompson voted for the budget, he voted for many of the things cited in the campaign ads, and helped make them happen.  One of his opponents this fall, dear Nancy Vaughan, voted against the budget.  So she voted against all those things.  He was part of the majority that passed the budget, and she was not.

I don't know whether Matheny intensely dislikes Thompson; or if he merely has felt threatened by him.  But Zack is now behaving, once again, like a Perkinette.  He is falling back in line.  The Melderec con Simkins tool is re-emerging.

It appears that the local Republican party leadership has a problem on its hands once again.  Perhaps it is long past time for them to usher Matheny toward the friendly confines of the local Democratic Party-- where he belongs.

Update: Triad Watch raises questions about Matheny's involvement in a land deal off HW 68; and asks about some of Zack's campaign donations and reporting.

Comments

[Abner Doon]

What are your thoughts on the ethics
of campaign finance and Zack's role on the Zoning Commission?

Is it OK for David Craft to have been paying our leaders
while gaining a City contract?

Is it OK for Roy to cut big checks
and try to get another $4 million out of Greensboro's coffers
while hiding behind an LLC?
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Everest, if you don't answer
you are lying.

If you do...?

[Everest]

Reading your "posts" is exhausting....does anyone - you included - have any idea what you're saying, or what your point is? You remind me a bit of Obama, who refuses to believe that perhaps people just don't buy what he's selling. It must be that you're not "selling" it right, because the thoughts that people don't actually agree with you would be too much for lil' Abner to bear....

Perhaps people HAVE looked at the facts Abner, and simply disagree with you. Have you polled all citizens in D3 to ask them what they think of Matheny's contributions? You've been railing on about it for years, yet continue to believe that the "news" about his contributors has just not gotten out - do you at all hold the opposite of that out as a possibility?

I don't think corporations - nor unions - are people...but so what? Does that mean corporations should have no advocacy rights? (could you be anymore dramatic about them pushing causes that kill people?) I'm all for Glass-Stegall's return - it's repeal, next to Fannie Mae/Freddie Mac was the key to the financial crisis. And I am on the side "as most conservatives", as my history on this blog would attest. I just think the conspiracy theories surrounding G'boro politicians is off the rails - and on this blog, intellectually inconsistent.

[ab]

You just lied.

[The Duke of Guilford]

Napoleon was doing pretty good till he invaded Russia. Is Zack advocating that?

[Joe Guarino]

At least for purposes of this election, Duke, he is probably well insulated from the consequences of invading Russia. For the voters of District 3 to vote against him, they have to understand who he really is.

[conservativewatcher]

Zack exemplifies what a Little Man with a big chip on his shoulder looks like.

[Joe Guarino]

CW, indeed, he has been behaving like a very small man.