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Five candidates owe taxes

This year’s crop of candidates for City Council include all kinds of characters – a developer, a chef, a community organizer.

And you can add another thing to a few candidate biographies: debtor.

Five candidates for City Council have overdue vehicle taxes, according to Guilford County records.

Here’s who they are and what they owed as of Thursday, when the records were reviewed:

• Jorge Cornell, at-large candidate: $214 on three cars. Bills were due August 2003, August 2004 and November 2008.
• Danny Thompson, at-large candidate: $15.17 for one car registered to his business. Bill due May 2009.
• T. Dianne Bellmay-Small, District 1 candidate: $2.28 for one car. Bill due February 2001.
• Luther Falls Jr., District 1 candidate: $58.47 on one car. Bill due May 2009.
• Daron Sellars, District 1 candidate: $481.01 on one car. Bills due January 2005 and July 2006.

All the candidates said they were unaware they owed money and will take care of the bill.

Cornell and Sellars said the bills were for cars they no longer own. Bellamy-Small’s bill is so small it has been accruing one penny worth of interest every month. Falls said he just learned about the bill recently and will pay it on July 31.

It’s worth mentioning that all 33 candidates for City Council get a gold star for paying their local property taxes on time, according to tax records. All the candidates are up-to-date in that area.