Politics !.

I Call B.S. has left a new comment on your post "Mais non moi, mon ami":

But, as she told us at GC, "it's not personal."
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Private conduct is personal. 
From being a candidate to being elected to public office, a  private person becomes public.  
Everything one says, every decision one makes,  within legal authority,  is  said and done on behalf of  others and subject to critique.
It belongs to the public. 
It's what one commits to, of one's own free will ,when one offers to serve in elected office. 
It was ever thus.
There's  no use yelping  about it. 
If you  didn't know about it, and now that you do, you don't have the gonads to deal with it, there is another option. 
The only thing that's new on the scene is the social media.
I 'm certainly not new and I have  scars to prove it. 
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I'm not planning to retain lawyers to raise the question of whether or not the municipality can create a new board after the  model of a library board  to disburse public funds for the purchase of something so ethereal as culture.