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Mecklenburg County commissioners were surprised Ella Scarborough ran for reelection last year. She finished with more votes than any other Commission candidate.
Mecklenburg County Commissioner Ella Scarborough is an icon in local politics as the first African American woman elected to the Charlotte City Council, in 1987.
But in recent years, Scarborough, who is 75, has been struggling to participate in meetings and follow discussions, according to six current and former commissioners.
They declined to speak on the record because they don’t want to tarnish Scarborough s distinguished career.
Because of Scarborough s health, they said they were surprised she ran for reelection as an at-large candidate in 2020.
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To paraphrase Matthew chapter 7, maybe George Dunlap should take the beam out of his own eye before he complains about the speck in Earnest Winston’s.
Dunlap is chairman of the Mecklenburg County Board of Commissioners. The county is threatening to withhold $56 million from the school board until it comes up with better ways to narrow the achievement gap between white and Asian students and Black and Hispanic students.
The other day, Dunlap took a couple of shots at Winston, the CMS superintendent. He took a low blow by saying that Winston used to just drive around former superintendent Peter Gorman; that image of another Black man being just a chauffeur was a cheap shot.
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