Incumbent: Tony Wilkins
Challengers: Sal Leone, Tanner Lucas, Tammi Thurm
Wilkins was the first one of the three City Councilmen to be appointed--except in his case he had to overcome a hostile effort by then-Mayor Robbie Perkins to prevent him from being appointed after Trudy Wade got elected to the State Senate in 2012.
The incumbent is the biggest obstacle to the arts community hands down. First, he wrote a Facebook post in 2013 that inaccurately described a routine done by Foxy Moxy at the inaugural East-West BBQ Fest. The truth was that the performance was at a tent that was clearly marked as "adults only."
The second incident happened at the beginning of this year when he called the Fire Department on Geeksboro before the Idiot Box held "A Trump Roast." It's clear to me that the county's GOP bigwigs didn't appreciate the comedy club poking fun at the most humorless president in decades and needed to slow the momentum of the Idiot Box and Geeksboro.
Leone advanced to the primary election four years ago. His anti-East Greensboro slam won't win him any friends on that side of town given that this is his fourth run for Greensboro office (his last one was the anticlimactic '15 mayoral race).
Lucas has some good ideas but the district skews older demographically, so I'm giving the edge to Thurm.
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