In an undated letter Charlotte's Mayor Vi Lyle attempts for a 3rd time to address the senseless violent murder of 23 year old Iryna Zarutska.
Her words are decidedly different yet still she can't read the room.
Our city is hurt, our lives forever altered, our faith in our public officials destroyed. Because her first response was from her stone cold heart and now nothing she will say can remove that stain and our understanding of her true feelings.
Her first callous woke response with all the liberal cashless bail blame the victim defund the police talking points was universally condemned.
The second revision met immediate condemnation by the President, Sectary of Transportation, and the US Attorney General.
The 3rd revision is no less troubled and obviously more disingenuous than her 1st and 2nd attempts.
I will let you decide.
Increase security with the same idiots who peacock 55 year old women who can't find their ticket but ignore the piss smelling bum sleeping across the seats?
ReplyDeleteWith the kind of budget increase she describes the security on the Light Rail should be A-1. So one has to ask what did CATS do with the money? It is easy to talk a good game about being tough on crime especially when the collective city govco has now gotten its ass in a crack and has allowed the situation to deteriorate to the point of a cowardly murder to occur on the choo-choo. Sorry but you can’t have people like Vi and Ms Watlington and Braxton Winston and let us not for Lawanna Mayfield and Tiawana Brown. All of whom would love nothing better than see the Police Dept defunded. Of course there was Lil Rotney the crooked elf that wasn’t qualified when he was hired. Then of course there is the judiciary / magistrates and the DA who all made court a joke. This has been a long time coming. Charloot wanted be ATL so bad they are reaping what they sowed.
ReplyDeleteAll true BUT Myers Park and Eastover precincts voting for Mayor Li Viles does not help the city. THEY seem to love her and so called Republican Ed Driggs appears to be cut of the same cloth as Mayor Lie Viles. Voters never show up in the primaries to vote for others with an 8% turnout. I will be shocked if Sheriff Hollywood McFadden is not re-electied by the same crowd. It is just sick and too few seem to really care.
DeleteHow much money could be made if the fares were enforced? Enough to not need raising taxes to pay for more unenforced fare-based transportation?
ReplyDeleteNot even close. That thing cost a fortune. Without Fed funds and property taxes, it’s dead
DeleteWhere’s JJ? Like seriously
ReplyDeleteDude “checked” out once he got paid. He’s doing job interviews just in case DiJulius Group falls through. Who knew you could run a police department the size of CMPD from your cell phone?
DeleteWhere are the fucking police around uptown in general? Quit with the staffing excuses and get some warm bodies out here! I will dig up Vicki Foster’s grave and put her skelton in a uniform by the bus station if it make an impact.
ReplyDeleteShe’d still manage a way to draw multiple retirement checks, or and off duty pay. And not shoot anyone.
DeleteI’m happy to see her die after all the scams she ran here. All that scamming and then she dies at 55.
DeleteKarma.
.Good to see Charlotte finally made national news for all the wrong reasons. A senseless killing on the Lynx train, and now the whole country gets a front-row seat to what City Council’s years of inaction have done. This city wanted to be like Atlanta, but congratulations, we’ve leapfrogged right past that and now we’re the new Chicago.
ReplyDeleteThe Mayor? A joke. Her entire strategy has been to hide, say nothing, and hope no one notices how clueless she really is. If you’re incompetent, silence only works so long. Open your mouth and the truth spills out.
Charlotte’s government is an embarrassment. The city’s image is trashed, and it won’t recover unless real action is taken. But that won’t happen as long as the same brain-dead voters keep putting the same clowns in power to protect their handouts. This place is circling the drain, and it’s only going to get worse.
I’m SO GLAD I retired from Charlotte. The place has spiraled so much in just a couple years. JJ played the city and won. I don’t hate him, I’d have done the same thing! Managing from a cellphone? Hell, I do it too! What are they going to do? Fire him? Nope, he has a Separation Agreement in place. That all that payout was from the jump, nothing more. He was going to get let go and it was a way for him to save face. CFD is no better with their command staff. Only one person up there has any respect and that not by much. The rest are stump turtles.
So the "powers that be" we can assume developers and contractors put Lyles on notice that her gravy train was about to run out of track if she didn't get her act together and salvage the Blue and Gold line extensions because Trump and the Sectary of Transportation was about to shitcan the whole light rail expansion deal.
ReplyDeleteAs they say that escalated quickly.
YES!
DeleteThe FBI is investigation at the order of Trump and New York is covering this story.
Vi looks like a dumb ass for her first statement.
Yeah her second attempt too. She needed a cooling off to get it somewhat right. I have read the above a couple of times. The condolences to the family seem forced. She is just sorry that she allowed the city to deteriorate to this point and it “Happened on her watch”. Bad enough her “legacy” now includes a fake membership at the country club a double secret not so secret payout to JJ “I can’t figure out how to dress myself” Jennings.
DeleteOh even with the tax, extension is dead. Feds paid a huge portion of the last rounds. Not in this admin, nope. Even Lil Antony Foxxx couldn’t squeeze this extension in.
DeleteAnd do you think surrounding cities and counties want CATS dropping this off in their yards? So Red Line is already dead and go ahead and kill the whole Silver Line thing too.
I don't think Union County will allow Charlotte to back up their trash truck and dump this shit in their yard. They see the huge mess that has been created.
DeleteDoes anyone have any thoughts on how many of these violent repeat offenders are walking the streets in CLT? Less than a 100? More?
ReplyDeleteIf you knew the juvenile records, the number would stun you.
DeleteGo uptown at 9pm and tell every homeless person "you're an asshole" and you'll find out quickly how many pf "them" are walking the streets. Westover has them walking in the middle of Tryon and South during the day yelling at cars.
DeleteWhat a joke.
ReplyDeletevi lyles....dimite....
ReplyDeleteBLACK FATIGUE!!!
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