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Chris Ballard @Chris4Aurora
If a Councillor is suing a
local business and then argues against giving said company a Town contract, is
that a conflict?
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If a Councillor worked for a newspaper. Received remuneration from the newspaper and voted to give a contract worth $30,000 to said newspaper, the Councillor would indeed have a conflict of interest. The vote would result in a financial advantage to the Councillor..
The Councillor would have a Conflict of Interest .
The tweeting Councillor has been a member of the elected body for almost two years .The issue of conflict of interest has been discussed many times .
A former Mayor and friend of the Councillor has been charged with a Conflict of Interest.
Court proceedings are ongoing at this time.
Public resources were used to pursue litigation which would, if successful, have netted $6 million dollars to her financial advantage.
This Council's first decision was to cut off the funds to pay the former Mayor's lawyer of choice. But not before $63,000 of public money had been spent.
The tweeting Councillor's vote in that regard is a matter of record.
The Councillor had no doubt then that using public money for personal gain of $6 million dollars was not a conflict of interest.
One of the bonuses of being in public office is the opportunity to watch a person take his thinking out of his head ,or wherever it might be, and lay it out for everyone else to examine.
ReplyDeleteIf the Banner were published in Britain, its only possible use would be to wrap one's fish and chips in it.
Provided you didn't want to take the chance that the fish and chips would be ruined.
You know, there are people who are getting stupider and stupider regularly elected to public office.
Is this because the public is getting stupider or are those seeking public office becoming better at lying?
What's the big to-do from the Morrisite 3 about those tennis courts? Is it because they're in the neighbourhood of their leader's mayoral predecessor?
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