Guarino: Yvonne Johnson, Robbie Perkins, Nancy Vaughan and Forced Annexation

October 29, 2011

Yvonne Johnson, Robbie Perkins, Nancy Vaughan and Forced Annexation

(Photo courtesy of Keith Brown, taken in Cardinal area, click to enlarge)

Danny Thompson, who lives in the Cardinal, is still sore about annexation, engineered, he said, by "Mayor Johnson." That's ex-mayor Yvonne Johnson, who's also an at-large candidate this year, and who was sitting immediately to Thompson's left.

Residents were given no say in the matter, Thompson said, and they "still don't have sidewalks, street lights, a city park ..." There was "no planning" done, he said, except to annex.

In fact, the city of Greensboro's historic approach to forced annexation was repudiated in the courts when it was challenged by angry residents of another community over the last year or two.

Previously, Greensboro had a money-grabbing, avaricious approach to annexation. That was back during the days when the Melderec con Simkins crowd was in full control-- Yvonne Johnson, Robbie Perkins, Don Vaughan (and his wife Nancy), and others. Some of us remember the smug, self-satisfied manner in which the city's business was conducted at that time-- as if the entire crowd was inherently wise and beyond reproach.

Thompson is correct to point to Yvonne Johnson, because she was one of the major forces on the city council for a long period of time. And, of course, she served as mayor and was a supporter of forced annexation.

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