Mar 03 2010
Vilma Leake, Proof That Anyone Can Be Elected to Public Office
Every now and then I like to do a shout out to Vilma Leake (D) in the form of helping to expose her feeble-mindedness for all to see. Yes, I enjoy picking on an old woman, but this isn’t your typical sweet grandmother smothering you with kisses and baking ginger bread cookies at Christmas. She is a nasty, vindictive individual who can never keep her mouth shut and despises white people from the very core of her miserable being. In short, she deserves the criticism at every opportunity.
The following is an exchange from last night’s Mecklenburg County Commissioners meeting that was recorded by Pundit House, a watchdog group of reporters in Charlotte. As you are reading this bear in mind that this woman helps control a billion dollar plus budget for the entire county and yet has no idea how the county operates.
It was equal parts amazing and amusing watching Commissioner Vilma Leake in action Tuesday night, but mostly it was flat-out scary. At issue was a vote by the Mecklenburg Board of County Commissioners to approve a change in the structure of the Fire Commission and receive an update on the county’s fire service assessment. The following is fairly close to a verbatim discussion of what ensued when Leake jumped into the mix:
“Why are they called volunteer if they don’t get paid?” Leake asked.
“I’m sorry, can you repeat the question, please,” replied an understandably confused Fire Marshal Mark Auten.
“Why are you called volunteer firefighters?” Leake asked.
“We have a number of firefighters in the county that volunteer their time to conduct this service,” Auten ventured.
“But why are you called volunteer and you’re asking for funding?” Leake pressed. “Do we have another agency that’s called firefighters under the auspices of the county?”
At which point County Manager Harry Jones tried to provide some clarification, explaining that the county’s funding helped offset VFD expenses for equipment, fuel, fire trucks and maintenance.
“Does this conflict with our own fire department?” Leake asked.
“The county does not have one,” said Commissioners Chairman Jennifer Roberts.
“We don’t have a fire department?” Leake asked.
“The city has one,” Roberts said.
“The city has one,” Leake said. “So the county is supporting the volunteers and the city is supporting its own fire department.”
“Correct,” Roberts said. “In the city limits of Charlotte they have a fully funded fire department.”
“I’m just still not clear,” Leake said.
Unfortunately, in a representative republic even the meager and the stupid deserve representation and well, Ms Leake is doing a fine job of that.
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Lord knows I tried in 2008. I sincerely hope that Lee Ann Patton can beat Mrs. Leake in 2010. As a citizen of District 2 I feel unrepresented. Ms Leake presents a viewpoint that is so counter to the majority in this district that it is indeed scary. It is time to retire this feeble Commissioner.
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Apparently Velma thinks she is ‘doing her job’ by being negative and (stupidly) questioning things she has taken no time to learn about. Does she even understand the difference in scope and the difference in services performed by the city and county governments yet?
What an embarrassment, an uninformed, knee-jerk emotional bag o’ crap she is.
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I KNOW, she is HORRIBLE and she is my district Rep! She is SO clueless, I admit I am, but she opens her mouth for the whole world to hear it! We SO have to get her OUT of our district! But people in the SteeleCreek area seem to be oblivious to her hatred for whites and inability to undrestand the BASICS! Thanks for publishing our embarrassment! NOW maybe someone will get in front of her and win!
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to TIM MCLEOD…PLEASE TRY AGAIN!
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