Now that the election is over, I can detail the peccadillos of Incumbent and Rival. Not that I couldn't talk about them before. It's just that I wanted to focus on MyCandidate's positive qualities rather than the opponents' negative ones.
Incumbent, aside from having held office and been in City Hall for 27 years, has done nothing for us. He rides on our ward's immigrant loyalty to the Liberal Party. And that he arranged for personal, dedicated parking spots in front of the houses of some people by getting them handicap permits, whether they were handicapped or not.
During his time, he's collected 30 properties, made a sweet deal with a chartiy to fund his office, extorted payments for facilitating restaurant licences and home expansion permits, got his assistant pregnant, got thrown out of the house by his wife.
He rarely shows up for council meetings, and when he does, he votes against the community. He voted against the streetcar right of way, he voted to cut millions in funding to our ward, and he almost lost our park to developers either because he wasn't paying attention or because he was expecting a kick-back.
He tried to channel millions to create 17 parking spots for a little business strip instead of fighting to use the space for a community centre. He takes credit for things that council does by masking his election literature with "We did this...", the "we" being city council even though he voted against the project.
When asked if he would post his donations and expenses for the election, he said to the audience, Yes, I will do that. When asked in private when he would post the information, he said, Whenever I damn well feel like it. He has yet to post the information. That's because he doesn't want to show he accepts funding from developer and businesses.
He doesn't even live in the ward. He's proven useless to the community over and over again.
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`Would you tell me, please, which way I ought to go from here?'
`That depends a good deal on where you want to get to,' said the Cat.
`I don't much care where--' said Alice.`Then it doesn't matter which way you go,' said the Cat.
`--so long as I get somewhere,' Alice added as an explanation.
`Oh, you're sure to do that,' said the Cat, `if you only walk long enough.'
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`In that direction,' the Cat said, waving its right paw round, `lives a Hatter: and in that direction,' waving the other paw, `lives a March Hare. Visit either you like: they're both mad.'
`But I don't want to go among mad people,' Alice remarked.
`Oh, you can't help that,' said the Cat: `we're all mad here. I'm mad. You're mad.'
`How do you know I'm mad?' said Alice.
`You must be,' said the Cat, `or you wouldn't have come here.'
Alice didn't think that proved it at all; however, she went on `And how do you know that you're mad?'
1 comment:
And I thought my city was bad.
Just so you know that the right people can still win. WE, the people, ousted a mayor that IS under official investigation for irregularities of election contributions, despite being endorsed by THE paper. However it was still it was a very close vote, just over 400 differential.
WE, the people, did not elect a canidate who lied about where he lived, when asked three times in a public debate, finally admitted that he lived outside the ward. We, the people, did not elect a man who ran his campagin out of a run down student rental (an issue very hot in our neighbourhood)while trying to claim he lived there with his wife and kids. WE did re-elect a councillor who cares about the environment, belives in public transit, who strongly belives in sustainable communities and would like to see all city and school buildings to have mini wind turbines. And these are only a few.
Unfortunately, like many big cities, there are always those who get re-elected even though they are currently under investigation by the OPP. I wonder how he will fulfill his campaign promises from jail?
Obvioulsy you did the right thing by standing by the best canidate.
Well done!!!!!
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