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Council member Ed Driggs apologizes at Monday s council meeting.
City council member Ed Driggs apologized Monday night for remarks he made at a county Republican meeting last week that were critical of the city s 2040 Comprehensive Plan and people involved with it.
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Axios Charlotte reported Monday that Driggs called the 2040 Plan an attempt at a socialist takeover of Charlotte. And he said he and the council s other Republican, Tariq Bokhari, had been able to stall the plan’s progress because “smart people can outmaneuver dumb people.”
Driggs admitted he said those things but said it was out of frustration.
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