Robert Harrington

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Charlotte City Council · City Council Special Meeting on 2026-06-18 12:00 PM - Mayoral Candidate Interviews - Jun 18, 2026 · 18 Jun 2026 meeting

And I think that raises...

I would imagine the public would have questions about that, and I think it brings opportunities, right?

Because I have served in a number of positions from the North Carolina Bar Association to leading the board of the Charlotte Mecklenburg Public Library System, and so I've got a good deal of experience in the

around the public sector and in the public sector.

But I would expect that to be a question and I think the answers are that I've had good experience working with city and county and library and also working with private sector.

I think it dovetails, Councilmember, with what I said just now.

I think we are in a time where, you know, sort of

Bringing all of those experiences to bear, particularly in this interim period, would be helpful.

I don't have political aspirations beyond this, and I think we've all said, of course, that we will not run for mayor, but I think this interim period gives us an opportunity to work internally.

some within the council to make sure that all the council members' voices are being heard and that the council members feel that their voices are being heard, and then moving out from there, making sure that the public believes that there is a free flow of information and of viewpoints.

I think my experiences up to now and my life experiences helped me to do that, and I'm eager to bring those skills to bear on the current situation.

Thank you.

Yeah, I guess I would start, Councilmember, with my experience.

So I have spent my career here in what I would call the business sector.

I mean, I have been a practicing attorney handling primarily business matters.

I've also been heavily involved in the community, and that goes from, I think the first organization I was involved in here was probably Friendship Church.

The second, probably right around the same time, was within Segal Avenue Partners, which is now Freedom School Partners.

So I have spent...

my career, certainly the last 30 years of it, bridging those gaps and making plain to partners on both sides of those issues.

I won't say that divide because I don't want to concede that there's a divide, but in those different pockets of the community, the need to work together.

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