While it is true that "justice" comes with a price - and sometimes you have to be able to afford to buy that justice - the other thing that I always try to remember is that one person's idea of "what is right" may not be the same as everyone else.
Your case in point, you felt that certain wrongs were perpetrated against you. The ones that "did it" obviously felt the opposite. Convincing the judge (or jury in other cases) is the job of the lawyers. I think in your case, the factor that weighed against you was past history. You have never been a team player and this behaviour created a situation where their actions were somewhat a response to past
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The above is only useful as an introduction. I am not an author. I'm content with journal entries and comments. Facebook has a spot "What's on your Mind" .It suits me well. A discussion can be up and running with lots less effort than the blog.
I do enjoy vigorous debate. The purpose of a Council is higher than a team function.To my mind, the idea municipal politics is a game is degrading to legislative authority.
It's an ill-suited reference.
My involvement in municipal politics spanned half a century. Only half of that in office.
In the off yearsI wrote a weekly column,reported on Board of Education business and a neighbouring township's political business. I served a term on Y.R. Police Services Board in the nineties. I travelled throughout the Province for nine years in the eighties, as a member of the Social Service Board of Ontario...a quasi-judicial Appeal Board.
Judgement is critical in each of those roles.The chance to improve my knowledge and skills was substantial and very much appreciated. The opportunity did not come without potential.
Individuality is not the essence of a team. On the other hand, in an election, in a community of 8, 10,18, 30 or 60 thousand people, mental cloning within a nine people council is neither sensible, desirablenor possible.
I did not aspire to be a team member. Working together in the best interest of an entire community
Is more complicated when members have different ideas of what is best. The majority rules. The
majority is not always right.
I opposed proceeding with the joint facility.
Council made no effort to comprehend the enormity of the project. No effort was made to examine the recommendation. Four years later it transpires ....I was right. Full extent of the mess is still unknown.
I opposed changing every street light in one fell swoop, at a cost of millions. Today, a story in The Auroran indicates cost recovery was wildly exaggerated. Once more the knell has struck.Taxpayers interest was betrayed.
The stories are legion,my friends.
My confidence in the Director of Environment and Infrastructure was at zero throughout his employment. Multi- Millions of dollars later ,he is no longer employed by the town.
Nothing in the resume of the former CAO ,or his in-service performance,rendered his recommendations sensible to me . A thirty year lease of a property ,needed for our own purposes,was another sell-out of town interest.
In my judgement, Aurora's interest is not served by the contribution of the current Chief Financial Officer. Far from it.
Circumstances of the hire and how positions continued to be secure by the current Mayor lend
nothing to my confidence that my taxes are well spent.
No ...you may not count me as a member of this or the previous two incompetent teams serving the Town worse than any other council in all its history.
I registered as a candidate for Council in 2003 . I had not held a seat for fourteen years. I was not known to most incumbents.They were late arrivals to the town.
Councillor Evelina McEachernhad already registered her candidacy but withdrew when she saw
I was a candidate, She had better things to do with her time ,like spend it with her children,she
said. It was a public statement evincing little in the way of team spirit.
The editor of the Aurora Banner was also new to the town since last I served, ...hostile jabs emanated from that quarter as well. She regularly received Character Awards.we have heard little of that
organisation since her employment with the newspaper ended.
I was elected, forty-nine votes ahead of the runner-up. MacEachern urged the runner-up to request a recount. He declined. Her last action ,as an out-going Councillor,was to move for a recount. The seconder to the motion, who had been re-elected, said he did not want to sit across the table for the next three years from someone who had no right to be there. No team spirit intended there for sure.
I had never worked with either Councillor.
The recount was completed with no change to the vote but the pattern of harassment was established
from the beginning.
I did have a right to be there.
I won the seat fair and square.
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you were handicapped by knowledge and facts far beyond the average citizen or for that matter your fellow councilors, its the same in every situation where knowledge and comprehension of the facts are lacking, they attack and defend with vigor never once referring to the issues at hand , We saw it over and over during that reign of terror.
Not one person on the planet would want to be on that team or any other team that was not prepared to deal with the truth , Their damage will never be undone , the sad part is as time goes on you alone know it
Her fellow councillors and many on staff knew exactly what was going on. What I keep learning from all levels of government is that there isn't enough bleach that can clean it up.
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