I was in the Costco checkout line today when the older woman in front of me casually looks over my purchases.
“Is that Ménage à Trois?” she asks.
I gulped. What did she just ask me?
“The wine,” she said. “Is that Ménage à Trois?”
Ah, the wine! I turned the bottle around to show her the Chilean label.
For an instant there I thought she was hitting on me!
As part of the N&O’s profiles of candidates for Raleigh Mayor, the newspaper ran another story taking another look at Billie Redmond’s dealings on Wake County’s Citizens’ Facilities Advisory Committee, a citizen’s committee tasked with deciding how to spend bond money. As you recall, as co-chairperson of the board Redmond enthusiastically supported a proposal to overspend $4 million of taxpayer money on property for an Apex school, knowing the deal would net her company a cool quarter-million in commissions. Fortunately, the Commissioners torpedoed the deal and put a new policy in place that all property must be appraised first.
In today’s article, Redmond inexplicably still thinks that was a great decision:
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