Talk about the election has begun. It will be upon us son enough.
Nnames are being crossed off. Minds made up.
The eternal truth about elections is once again being overlooked.
An election is about electing. Not about rejecting.
For a candidate to be rejected, someone else must be elected.
If no candidate for Mayor comes forwrad, the incumbent will be acclaimed.
He has made friends in all the right places.
The fat carcase of the municipal treasury has been royally engorged.
Without a mayoralty contest, the election will engender little interest.
With no opportnity for choice, turn out at the polls could fall as low as 19 per cent.
In that scenario, all incumbents have an edge.
The Mayor's chair is key.
Electing someone without experience or proven ability has not turned out well.
The picture outline is already clear and irrefutable
There's them that count and them that don't. //
We all know where we fit .
The simple question is, will a candidate come forward ?
Will there be a viable alternative?
Of the figures strutting the stage in the last three and a half years, who do you see ?
What are our choices?
Tuesday, 11 February 2014
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8 comments:
The Mayor is only one vote.
We're all making plans for Nigel!
While the Mayor may only be one vote, because the role is both full-time and (relatively) highly paid, it affords the incumbent the luxury of consistent and un-fettered access to top-level staff. If the one occupying the seat chooses to interpret the Chief Executive role as it may be done in a private, commercial setting, it can (as we are seeing) lead to an (hidden) influence on things far greater than the 1 council vote.
The last Mayor was an incumbent who had royally served her followers. Funny how that played out. I wonder if anyone can remember what month that ' Help Wanted' ad for a new Council appeared in the Auroran.
We all have potential candidates in mind but, speaking just for myself, are letting individuals decide for themselves. It is too early to ' out ' someone unsure of themselves.
What ever became of that ' Helen ' who registered to run last term > That showed how . you could cut an announcement and then decline to run.
Methinks the Mayor is going to have to put together a totally new team when he runs. The motives for their support may be very different from those who supported him the first time around. I will watch with great interest.
14:56
What's a Nigel ?
It seems there is a new candidate. Anthony Pullano has told the Auroran he is going to run. He says he hasn't decided whether to run for Mayor or as a Councillor. Which puts him even with Cllr Gallo.
I don't know anything about him but had never hear of Geoff Dawe either.
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