Neither Sense Nor Sensibility

Anonymous has left a new comment on your post "I Am Certainly Not Certain":

I approach this subject with caution. Feel free to give it a pass if it is out of line. Do you think that what has just transpired, the swiftness, nastiness and evidence of planning, will serve as an object lesson to Council? Two or three Councillors appeared to be aware of the lurking menace; others carried on blithely which led to the infamous flip-flop over the termination clause. It would be reassuring to hope that such an event would not happen again but that is asking too much.
I guess to put it into general terms,are the three isolated Councillors going to become further cut off or can we expect to see no behavioral changes at the next meeting which I do not think is on TV?

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We are in our  seventeenth month of office. The pattern is consistent. Only very occasionally does Councillor Gallo veer from the old alliance and practice of  pre-planning. Councillor Gaertner's
conduct is no more the result of her own thinking now than it ever was.

Even more occasionally, Councillor Humphryes will join the unholy trinity.  To the benefit of the St Kitts family music business or as in the case of the Church Street School governance body.

It's  not enough  to be  fourth leg  of the alliance. But it is there.

I made the mistake of assuming  everyone who was a candidate in the  last election was thoroughly familiar with what had gone before and  that it was, in good part, the reason for their election.

I always make that mistake. It comes from being to so tightly involved myself .  I set myself up for disappointment.

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Anonymous has left a new comment on your post "Check This Out":

Ruby says
I was not offended by Mayor Dawes quick retort. I was, however offended,in my home,with friends, in my living room when the former Mayor and her minions allowed the public flogging of Councillor Buck by Ms.Kitts before the awards ceremony for children that evening many months back. Abuse at its finest...no one stopped it, not even the former Mayor.That in itself spoke volumes.

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With the former Mayor in the chair, there was no stopping whatever plot had been devised beforehand to obtain maximum collateral
damage of someone else's  character.

The episode  was  certainly planned beforehand.

The St Kitts woman made her unsubstantiated  accusations  and unfounded allegations  in the public forum. Had she asked for delegation status and stated her purpose, she would  have undoubtedly been denied the opportunity by staff.

Her comments were in writing. The Mayor requested they be handed to the secretary.  The whole thing is on tape.

The Mayor established  pre-planning by  reference to "an inquiry"
into the matter she had arranged for ten o'clock the next morning with the CAO and the town solicitor.

Nothing came of  that. No doubt the co-operation she sought  on that occasion was not forthcoming. 

Like Councillor Ballard's reference to Council and residents as "rubes", the thinking that permitted them to consider  such conduct  acceptable was beyond credibility.

Councillor Mac Eachern's letter to the editor  clearly indicates they have learned  nothing.

They  never understood what is expected  from their office. They still don't. They never will.