Anonymous has left a new comment on your post "New Year Resolutions":
I can well imagine how you would have treated Morris if this had happened under her watch. Why does Dawe get a pass from you?
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No need to imagine. A quick review of past posts would reveal how I dealt with things during Mormac's Regime, "under her watch"
It was my watch too. Being elected is being chosen for leadership. A Councillor's role is not subservient. Each is accountable for stewardship..
We are witnessing, an addendum to a play that ended on October 25th .Scripts have been written. The roles of Stone Face and Fiendish Foe already assigned.
Spurning the tour arranged by staff for the new Council was the first indication of direction.
Council's Inaugural , marked by liberal helpings of Cold Shoulder and A Clarion Call to "Let the Games Begin" was the second.
At the first business meeting , new Mayor in the chair, Stone Face declared council under newly elected Mayor, was starting out without respect for the rules. After the statement, the written opinion was handed with a flourish to a newspaper reporter.
A delegation known to make unfounded, unsubstantiated allegations and accusations against a staff member and an entire town department to promote private interest , was enabled to repeat the performance at the first public meeting of the new council by machinations of Fiendish Foe..
It was at this point the play became a farce.
The written evidence for failure to adhere to time-honoured traditions turned out to have been written by person or persons unknown to Stone Face even before said time-honoured traditions had supposedly failed the test.
Fiendish Foe was forced to withdraw nasty insinuations of wrong-doing before the paper hit the table. Declared it was never his intention to insinuate. Failed to reveal whose it was or who dictated the resolution.
A well-informed guess would be, the same person or person's unknown who wrote Stone Face's script but failed to inform her background notes enclosed were not intended to be disclosed.
So now we know for certain. The Dreadful Duo have not surrendered.
So long as Stone Face and Fiendish Foe play the roles assigned, however damaging to themselves , Puppet Masters Extraordinaire will continue to write bad scripts and jerk the strings in a spastic
choreography.
I will continue to post a play by play critique from a ringside seat until the performance, degrading to the two sitting members of council comes to an end.
An alternate role would be for me to advise of the pitfalls.
But why ? How long can it last?
Thursday, 30 December 2010
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very well stated Councilor and once again ,painfully true, One can only hope this holiday respite has been a time of reflection for Medusa and company ,As for your critical reader and Dawe getting a pass, quite obviously your good reader's head was buried deep in the sand each time the twins and their friends ripped and clawed you to shreds at every opportunity, I just can’t picture Mayor Dawe crawling that deep into the gutter,
I guess I was too subtle in my comment on giving Dawe a pass.
Why are you not criticizing him? According to you, he knew about Ballard's item before the council meeting, even going so far as to meet with staff about it.
Shouldn't he have tried to get the item taken off the agenda if -- as you contend -- it was so egregious and critical of staff? What would your reaction have been if Morris allowed something similar to go on the agenda?
"We are witnessing, an addendum to a play that ended on October 25th .Scripts have been written. The roles of Stone Face and Fiendish Foe already assigned."
We are witnessing the way civilians feel that the only way to be heard by their elected officials is to go "over the heads" of staff. This is the new normal in how we tax payers have to get things done. We pay huge taxes and do not see results to our liking. In order to get our voices heard, this must be done.
Change your rules - the public expects to be heard.
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