Government
Greensboro is governed under a Council-Manager system. As of December, 2011: John Martin (R) is the mayor. The City Council Members are: Yvonne J. Johnson (D), Mayor Pro-Tempore, At Large; Nancy Vaughan (Unaffiliated), At Large; Marikay Abuzuaiter (D), At Large; T. Dianne Bellamy-Small (D), District 1; Jim Kee (D), District 2; Zach Matheny (R), District 3; Nancy Hoffmann (D), District 4; and Trudy Wade (R), District 5. The Mayor and Council Members serve two-year terms, with elections held biennially.
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“The only government that I recognize—and it matters not how few are at the head of it, or how small its army—is that power that establishes justice in the land, never that which establishes injustice.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
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—George Bernard Shaw (1856–1950)
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—Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882–1945)