..is that they become elected. Case in point - a Mrs. Jackie Wagstaff as told by the Washington Times:
Candidate touts 'hip-hop agenda'
Durham mayoral candidate Jackie Wagstaff donned bright-orange Chuck Taylor shoes and large gold earrings to announce her "hip-hop agenda" for City Hall.
Mrs. Wagstaff said she would use "gangsta" culture and rap music to appeal to disaffected youth, luring them away from crime with the offer of free studio time to record songs. T-shirt giveaways would serve as another enticement.
If elected, she would hold monthly meetings with her "hip-hop Cabinet," streetwise teens with insights on how to improve Durham.
"You can always take something bad and find something positive," said Mrs. Wagstaff, 46, who recently adopted the nickname J-Dub. "Gangsta to me is an organizational structure -- not organized crime, but organized good."
It seems that Mrs. Wagstaff has a little gangsta background herself:
Mrs. Wagstaff, a former City Council member who has served the past three years on the school board, survived a 2002 effort to remove her from office after pleading guilty to two misdemeanor counts for doctoring check requests from the nonprofit North East Central Durham Reinvestment Inc. She also has been evicted several times for not paying rent.
Fo shizzle...
The Durham School Board is racist and ineffective. The biggest issue is that the administration does not respond when parenets seek their assistance in solving problems. Mrs. Wagstaff is more in tune with what every day people experience. Does it make you a gangster if you do not pay your rent? If that be the case advocate to build more jails.
The situation with signing of checks was misrepresented in that Mrs. Wagstaff was told by a city employee to sign the document. The children , many of whom had never traveled out of the city, were scheduled to take a field trip.
Maybe it's a RobinHood situation but Mrs. Wagstaff did not put one penny of that money in her pocket. The children went on a previously planned and much awaited field trip. I know that it might be hard to believe but there are plenty of people that have not been exposed to life outside of their neighborhood. Several years ago I went on a field trip to the beach with a group of women from a housing project. As we traveled down a country road one of the women yelled "look at that big lawnmower" we all turned to look out of the window and lo and behold the lawn mower was actually a TRACTOR. We all laughed and corrected her but while it was funny it was also very, very sad.
Please seek out the truth and not pass judgement without knowing all of the facts.