Steve Mensing, Editor/Waitsel Smith.com/Waitsel Smith
♦ I love Christmas and we’re about to revisit one of the greatest Christmas stories of our time: “Frosty Beats City Hall” where Lane Bailey, then Lenoir’s city manager duked it out with a giant inflatable Frosty the Snowman and was humiliated. This misadventure probably led to his being chosen as the next city manager fall guy in Salisbury’s notorious city hall.
The RFP staff is amused by Salisbury’s City Manager in failing to answer perfectly legal public information requests about all that’s happening in Salisbury’s city hall. Right now Lane has about as much job security as the soon to be former Police Chief Rory Collins had several weeks ago. We’d love to send Lane Bailey a public information request about why retired city of Salisbury employees allegedly lost their health benefits. Gosh we’d hate to think this is true. Hopefully its just a gap. In all the many articles we’ve read about Stockton, California, Detroit, and other cities that went bankrupt, one of the first signs of collapse was the trimming of retired city employee benefits.
In the tank town of Lenoir, N.C. best known for its poverty, cronyism, crime, and major league struggles with unemployment since the furniture and woodworking industry left, Lane Bailey chose to battle local tree farmer Larry Smith and his seasonal “Frosty the Snowman” a giant inflatable advertisement for his tree farm. In the photos of Smith’s tree farm “Frosty the Snowman” actually appeared to enhance THAT neighborhood. Then Lenoir City Manager Bailey, who stated that “rules are rules”, thought otherwise. City Manager Lane Baily made regional headlines by doggedly defending an arbitrary Lenoir’s ordinance against “Frosty the Snowman”.
Waitsel Smith’s: “Frosty Beats City Hall”:
http://www.waitsel.com/america/Frosty_Beats_City_Hall.html
