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Funny Side":
What? No post about the Morris COI decision?
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I've heard about the decision. I've not read it.
I will of course do so before commenting .
After four years of being on a Council with P.M. in the Mayor's
chair and E.Mac E, her right-hand man, whatever decisions made outside that crucible are but ragged-edged fragments of the whole.
$55,000 of public resources paid to a lawyer to sue members of the public with their own money, to realise, six million dollars for herself ,is a minute fraction of public funds expended to satisfy the woman's lust for power and revenge.
It started hours after she was elected. When the new Council, six of whom rode in on her coat-tails, gave authority behind closed doors to hire a lawyer to pursue the former Mayor, the one she defeated, for what she claimed to have been invasion of privacy.
Two years later, only the treasurer would know how many lawyers had been hired and fired by herself ,before that particular hunt ended, she was advised , again in a closed meeting, by the last in the line of lawyers, with CAO and Clerk of the day finally providing input, any court action would have to be private, at her own expense, and the possibility of recovering damages slim to nil.
We remember the night her best friend came to Council and spent twenty minutes in a public forum making unfounded allegations and accusation against a Councillor. We clearly recall the waiver of a procedure vote that didn't carry with two thirds majority, but proceeded anyway, to direct staff to record the comments in the minutes of the meeting."
And how, when the minutes were produced the direction had not been followed.
The reason being; the CAO, Solicitor and Clerk conferenced in private and decided to do something other than publish the slander as directed by the Mayor and her five followers.
Last Tuesday, as I listened to Councillor Ballard speak triumphantly of how the Mayor, thrown out in ignominious defeat, had been "exonerated" by the decision on the Conflict of Interest charges, I marvelled .
Councillors Gaertner and Gallo who were there, who made all things possible every step of the way, said nothing . While Councillor Ballard who was not, had so much to say .
But it wasn't enough my friends.
It will never be enough.
The problem with that decision is that no one to whom I have spoken believes it to be correct. Since the Municipal Act allows no appeal in this situation, any possible errors in law just sit and glare from the pages. The blather about ' vindication ' sure doesn't cover the Court decision that she filed a SLAPP against totally unsuspecting residents with Aurora taxpayers' money.
ReplyDeleteJust this week we heard Councillor Gaertner demand outside legal advice on the tax status of the Sports Dome. She has clearly learned nothing and is willing to play the same stupid and costly games instead of dealing with items at the Council table and with Aurora staff.
ReplyDeleteNot to worry , the court of public opinon, the only one that really matters, has spoken once and will speak again should any one of them be silly enough to try it again ,2014 is certainly not enough healing time!
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