Anonymous has left a new comment on your post "A short exchange":
"You mean like all the national polls before elections?"
No, I mean like trying to gauge local opinion based on a handful of blog comments.
"How can you generalize about what ' most of your fellow residents ' may be feeling or thinking ?"
I don't know, probably the same way Cllr Buck does when she tries to reinforce her argument when purporting to speak for "the community."
"I sure don't know except by talking and listening to them. Which I try to do."
Good Luck with that.
Posted by Anonymous to Our Town and Its Business at 26 August
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It seems to be the day for lessons.
Councillor Buck speaks for the community by virtue of having ben elected to do so.
I paid the hundred dollars fee to register as a candidate.
I attended upon the Clerk, Commissioner of Oaths, in his office to swear on oath that I am who I say I am.
I conducted a campaign for a period of weeks and informed the community what I stood for. I askeed them to trust that I would exercise my judgement on their behalf.
On Election Day I garnered a sufficient number of voites to be eligible to take a seat at the Council table.
But before I could do so I swore again an Oath of Office to abide by the laws of the land.
Then and only then ,did I have the right to speak for the community along with eight other residents
who went through the same process.
That different viewpoints are expressed at the table is entirely appropriate connsidering the entire community is represented.
The percentage of the people who vote is more a reflection of the numbers on the voters list than it is the community's interest in public affairs.
At any given time the population is shifting. People leave. New people move in. New owners need time to catch up on what's what.
Tenants , unless they are former homeowners, do not take the same interest as property owners. . They do not pay taxes directly. They are less likely to be permanent residents.
Young people of eighteen years and thereabouts are also less likely to vote for the same reason.
All that having ben said. I do not "purport" to speak . I do speak for th community.
Because they have given me the authorityy to do so.
Many.many. many times.
Young people of eighteen y
There was a 'Helen' who registered to run. I even recall which former councillors she accompanied to the Town Hall. Then she vanished. Became sort of like a Where's Waldo? Did the ' Helen ' lose any more than the registration fee?
ReplyDeleteI think your critic is missing the point. Did or did not the Aurora Blogs represent the opinions of the electorate prior to the last municipal election ? Seems to me that they were an accurate reflection of the results. Just saying.
ReplyDeleteChristopher is sure making up for lost time.
ReplyDeleteEvelyn, do you put these untitled comment boxes up for off-topic subjects. If so, it might work once we figure it out.
"I’m with Mr. Hotham."
ReplyDeleteThat's good, since he's his next-door neighbour.