3. Tommy Greene:
Tommy Greene has had probably the longest run of scandals of anyone in this list. Starting way before the merger and for many years later. Tommy Greene also worked at Cleveland Community College where he retired from in late 2015 as Vice President of Finance. When Greene retired, that position was not filled, even to this day.
Tommy Greene’s first major scandal as a school board member was way before the school merger. Greene was on the original County School Board and went on a School Board Retreat to New Orleans along with other school board members. Including Connie Goforth Whitiker. When the retreat was over and it was time to go home, Tommy and Connie were nowhere to be found amongst the Board members heading back to Cleveland County. Basically Tommy was leaving his wife and Connie was leaving her husband back in Cleveland County and their adultery together was now public knowledge. Anyway, Connie was the first of the two to face re-election to the school board. Connie lost. Tommy’s term was up two years later and apparently Cleveland County voters had forgotten about Tommy and Connie’s adultery on the taxpayer paid trip to New Orleans. Tommy won re-election. Later to serve on the merged School Board and even served as chairman. What a role model Tommy and now Connie Goforth Greene were for the children of Cleveland County? Their adultery certainly put the seal of approval on adultery for the Cleveland County School Board, Principals and Teachers for years to come. Right down to this very day adultery among CCS Board members, Administrators, Teachers, Principals, etc. is a protected sin at CCS. Even into Courthouse cases that you will soon be told about.
But scandals were not over for Tommy Greene and the School Board. Tommy Greene was chairman of the school board AND VP of Finance at CCC when all the recently discovered credit card fraud scandals began to surface at CCS. All this right under the nose of the financial guru in charge at both CCS and CCC. All these credit card fraud cases were covered up by the Cleveland County District Attorney’s Office and the CCS Board who even hired an outside auditor to conduct an audit of documents that knowingly had been purged of examples of fraud and then CCS announced the audit did not find any problems. Proof of this was inadvertently blurted out by School Board member Kathy Falls at a school board meeting when Falls forgot to keep her mouth shut about how the audit was rigged. No other board member said a word and frowned at Falls. Falls then got the message to keep her mouth shut.
Tommy Greene was also a Bully, not quite as bad as Bully Glover, with his threats to have citizens removed from School Board meetings. Glover actually had citizens removed, Greene only threatened to do so. I guess I will have to continue to call Phillip Glover “Bully” and Tommy Greene “Bully Lite.”
Last, but not least, Tommy Greene was allegedly recruited to run for the School Board this year by Jo Boggs, now a Republican (RINO), after the Kathy Falls lawsuit resulted in an extension of the filing period. All this stuff is what caused this costly Democrat Primary Election in the first place along with big lawyer bills for taxpayers to have to pay. Tommy Greene’s under the table associations with Jo Boggs ought to disqualify him from citizens votes during the Democrat Primary on September 12, 2017. Early voting starts August 24th.
4. Coleman Hunt:
Coleman Hunt was a long time Principal (Now retired) within Cleveland County Schools. Mr. Hunt started his education in the segregated school system in Cleveland County and ended up at Crest High School when it opened in 1967, ending segregation in Cleveland County. Mr. Hunt excelled in football and won a scholarship to Gardner Webb, where he was a standout player in football and wrestling. Mr. Hunt then joined Cleveland County Schools as a coach and a teacher, working his way up to Principal. Mr. Hunt retired just a few years ago as Principal at Washington Elementary School after eleven years of service at Washington.
Mr. Hunt appears to have no previous political experience that I can find and no multiple and major scandals associated with him as bad as the three candidates noted above. However, Mr. Hunt has been criticized for his lack of promoting diversity, especially for passing over well qualified and better qualified minority teachers for fast tracking into a Principal position and promoting Jo Boggs’ daughter instead.
Also, I can not find any campaign information on Mr. Hunt’s reasons for running for the School Board, what his priorities are and whether or not he would be effective in finding and fixing the problems that are well known within CCS.
The allegations that Mr. Hunt was recruited to run for the School Board to help the political and career aspirations and planned schemes of School Board Member Jo Boggs and Boggs’ daughter earned Mr. Hunt this position on this list.