I become very conscious of the last few day of summer ..I used to feel the urge to go someplace and feel the wind off the ocean on my face.
If I'm not up writing a blog at the crack of dawn, by the time, I respond to citizen's e-mails, post comments that can be posted, have breakfast, wash dishes, the day is half over and I have to get out.
I had a sarcastic comment yesterday congratulating me on my engineering degree. Like... unless a person has a degree, no credibility can be deduced from anything they have to say.
Like engineers and other consultants aren't retained to bring about a pre-ordained result.
Consultants don't answer to the taxpayer.
Councillors do.
Some lose their seats after a single term and are reduced to making bitter,senseless comments anonymously through the internet.
Aurora Council had a Professor make a presentation by invitation of the Mayor last term
He had deduced council decisions were the result of contributions from developers to campaigns of municipal councillors.
His study amounted to sitting in front of a computer and pulling off figures from candidates financial statements. All planning decisions made were attributed to that evidence.
He was invited to present his findings to Aurora Council. He acknowledged Aurora wasn't included in his study . But he declared his confidence Aurora was the same as all the rest.
The Mayor nodded affirmatively and cast her forbidding glare in strategic directions around the table.
The Professor got his five minutes of fame and appeared on talk shows and was quoted in newspaper articles here and there.
Somebody took the trouble to check the financial statements after the next election told me, the only donation from a developer in Aurora was from the Rice Group who built the Longo Shopping Centre on Wellington Street. They got an entrance from a regional road within feet of a signalized intersection.
But not before Longo's sent a letter to Council informing they had terminated their contract with the developer.
It appears the donation went to the campaign of the town's only regional representative.
Of course it was all perfectly legal and above board and proved the Professor's point.
Just not about all the candidates in Aurora's election.
Monday 26 September 2011
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6 comments:
Whack !
Could you please clarify issues about the property at Bayview and Wellington before development.
Was there environmental concerns about this property?
Quite obviously it didn’t help , Good chance it was used to fight for the right to dry or to post an ad in the New York Times marketing the Hip , Well Educated, Upscale Town . or to the Prince of Wales! for a new chariot , Not a chance it was used for any self serving purpose!!!!
On matters of engineering, I'd certainly take the opinion of someone who has an engineering degree over that of a career politician whose credentials include being a stay-at-home mother.
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