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Vote 2009

Meet the candidate: Max Benbassat, at-large

Former New Yorker Max Benbassat has tended bar, sold advertising and been an owner of an import company and a dance studio.

Now that Benbassat has returned to Greensboro to be near his native Burlington, he’d like to add City Council member to his resume.

“People are going to vote for me because they see I am honest and kindhearted,” said Benbassat, who promised to be an accessible council member.

Benbassat said the city needs to support existing local businesses and attract new ones, but he isn’t sure whether incentives are the right way to go.

The city should invest money in expanding the aerotropolis.

However, he was not sure how the council should do that. “I don’t know, but I am wiling to learn and work at it,” he said.

Benbassat would like to the city to provide free wireless Internet
access. He’d also like to expand the city’s bus service — to be funded by advertising on buses and bus shelters.

Check out Benbassat online at his Web site: www.maxbenbassat.org/.