ASHEVILLE, NC
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if the spineless lily livered city council had better leadership skills they would have gotten rid of Jackson long before now. total wuss he was….zero leadership ability…totally NOT management material in every respect.
That’s not what your good bud Carl Mumpower said:
“Managing city operations in Asheville is like herding sheep, cats and driverless Ubers in the same pack,” said Carl Mumpower, who was on the council at the time it hired Jackson and is now chairman of the Buncombe County Republican Party.
“That Mr. Jackson was able to successfully do so for so long under such a unique parade of elected officials is testimony to his competence and skills,”
Dr. Mumpower is smart but he does not know everything. He is wrong on this statement.
How convenient of government to implement such laws for their benefit…..