{"id":2793,"date":"2021-10-08T21:11:44","date_gmt":"2021-10-08T21:11:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/?p=2793"},"modified":"2021-10-08T21:12:11","modified_gmt":"2021-10-08T21:12:11","slug":"carty-finkbeiner-meets-with-community-members","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/index.php\/2021\/10\/08\/carty-finkbeiner-meets-with-community-members\/","title":{"rendered":"Carty Finkbeiner Meets with Community Members"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Ray Wood, Tina Butts, former Mayor Carty FinkbeinerSojourner\u2019s Truth Staff<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

In a meeting organized by Tina Butts, founder of The Movement, mayoral candidate Carty Finkbeiner held a question and answer session with about a dozen Toledoans at the D.O.B., on Bancroft and Upton, to discuss community issues such as the recent spike in violence and the ongoing difficulties Black citizens encounter in their dealings with Toledo officials of all stripes.<\/p>\n

\u201cI need you to help put the right person in place and change our neighborhoods,\u201d said Butts as she introduced Finkbeiner. \u201cHelp get this man back in charge. We have less than four weeks to change downtown.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"\"Butts went on to defend Finkbeiner\u2019s actions in the past when, as mayor, he took actions to address crime and violence, noting that he spent time reaching out to the Black community for input and to advise them of his plans.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf you don\u2019t have much, you do what you need to do,\u201d said Finkbeiner opening his comments. \u201cThe person who has nothing, needs something, needs to know he is part of the team, needs to increase his self-worth.\u201d<\/p>\n

Segueing into his past while working for the Equal Opportunity Planning Association when Wayman Palmer was his boss and mentor, Finkbeiner spoke of the lessons he gleaned from those early days.<\/p>\n

\u201cI want everyone to have equal fair opportunities to be successful and color should have nothing to do with that,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

Finkbeiner informed his listeners of the way in which he had worked with Black advisors and colleagues as mayor in the past, such as Juanita Greene, Perlean Griffin, Theresa M. Gabriel, Pete Culp, Calvin Lawshe and Mike Bell. He also noted that typically his senior staff was usually 50\/50 male female.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m not proud of the Caucasian\/White legacy in the United States,\u201d he said of the centuries of oppression people of color \u2013 Native Americans and African Americans, among others \u2013 have faced.<\/p>\n

Finkbeiner, who served three terms as Toledo mayor, spoke of his time out of office as well, describing how he alone among Toledo politicians, opposed the area\u2019s efforts to sell the water plant for a mere fraction of what it was worth \u2013 a sale supported by such entities as the Chamber of Commerce.<\/p>\n

As for Toledo\u2019s youth, Finkbeiner said: \u201cI would like to see more trading programs \u2013 like at the old Macomber Whitney, instead of sending kids to colleges and coming back full of debt that they can\u2019t afford.\u201d<\/p>\n

In her follow-up remarks, Butts noted of Finkbeiner\u2019s candidacy, \u201che is going to get the job done,\u201d as she urged the attendees not only to vote, but also to get out in the community and bring others to the polls.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In a meeting organized by Tina Butts, founder of The Movement, mayoral candidate Carty Finkbeiner held a question and answer session with about a dozen Toledoans at the D.O.B., on Bancroft and Upton, to discuss community issues such as the recent spike in violence and the ongoing difficulties Black citizens encounter in their dealings with […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,17],"tags":[],"wf_post_folders":[77],"class_list":["post-2793","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economy","category-local"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2793","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2793"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2793\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2797,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2793\/revisions\/2797"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2793"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2793"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2793"},{"taxonomy":"wf_post_folders","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/wf_post_folders?post=2793"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}