No Blog In The Sixties ,,,by Golly

Stephen Somerville has a column in The Auroran this week about  a ward system.
Councillor  Pirri has given  notice of a motion to create wards and reduce the  size of Council as well. 
Somerville is in support,. He has something  to add. Term limits for Ontario's municipal Councillors. Like American Presidents. 
Incumbents shouldn't be able to get re-elected just because their names are familiar.
In a previous term, Somerville  had a personal interview and wrote a column on all members of  Council with the exception of myself.
A person notices stuff  like that.
I thought it signified a  pre-occupation with  his own callow years.
I couldn't have said that in the sixties. Didn't have a blog.  
Timing of the motion is interesting. 
Usually it comes up closer to an election. 
Usually by new candidates who want elections to be easier.
They don't want to have to  put in the work or the finances or compete against incumbents with reputations and experience.
Aurora  is no more than the size and population of a city ward. Considerable chunks of it lie in the Oak Ridges Moraine, Flood Plain , wood lots , land under control  of Ontario Heritage and other  lands under  control of  Oak Ridges Moraine Trust.
We have seven golf courses. 
Estate lot areas with an average of one house on a minimum of two acres . Some are four acres. 
We are a small urban node with vast unpopulated areas  which are never going to be populated.
But none of that matters to the boyos. They argue voter choice  should  be  restricted.. 
It should be limited to one two at most, for a  third slice  of the municipality.
It's an interesting concept. 
To make it easier for new candidates to displace incumbents by  relieving the voter of the burden of making a wider choice.
What a burden that is having the freedom to choose? 
It sort of resembles comments in response to my factual observation in a blog that Coincillor Pirri might  find it easier to  make decisions on spending because he  doesn't  pay  property tax.
The Councillor's furious anonymous defenders recommended  more Coucillors like himself and less of those  like  me ,who want to keep town business  in the sixties and have never been liked by any Councillor in any previous term served. 
Talk about a two-year old, in a temper tantrum. screaming and  kicking his heels on the floor, because Mum won't give him a popsicle before dinner.
In the sixties, there would have been  no venue for  me to say things like that.  Blogs did not exist. 
But they do now.