Long life and intact memory represents a significant body of knowledge and experience. I have known many people on various levels of intimacy. I've encountered many more.
Political people are particularly interesting. Mostly congenial, confident, competitive and skittery; they are quick to react.
They are super-conscious of their image. In or out of politics, they don't change. Politics attracts that personality.
Politics is public .
A Councillor can hope to influence decisions and certainly cast a vote with all the strength of conviction.
It's not a small thing. It requires mutual respect among councillors for the position they hold and the responsibility they share .
It calls for discipline. Animus is out of place. Every decision is followed by another to be made. And the work begins again.
Hostile barbs are not forgotten or easily forgiven . There's a powerful inclination to strike back.
I do it here.
This is not the council chamber.
The cameras are not running.
Those who read, want to know what's going on and what I think about it. I tell .
I get the occasional splutter of vituperative rage from Councillor "anonymous" .
The Mayor's power glower is obviously intended to reduce me to a quivering miserable mass of fear and trembling.
I don't understand why the Mormac twins think any part of public business should be secret.
They clearly believe control of the majority of votes and the administration , should be sufficient power to squelch all opposition.
It may be.
But public business is the public's right to know.
Especially with the only opportunity in four years to cast a vote coming soon upon us.
In all my years and encounters, I have seldom met the likes of Morris and MacEachern.
They are a political aberration.
Seldom seen and never found in pairs. .
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