Anonymous has left a new comment on your post "I
LIke Things To Be Real":
Unfortunately during the term of the
previous council, while there was no matching of skills to create a team, a team
was nevertheless created, 6 members.
This was as unskilled a group as one
could create, only in a nightmare.
And it was upon you personally that
this team directed its bile, and you well know the consequences, still awaiting
a judicial outcome.
Those who seek the people's trust must show a
strength of character by deed, not by promise or the spoken word.
Strength of
character is something we earn, from experience, from the ability to establish
meaningful and positive relationships with our fellows.
Ford's character
appears to be brass knuckles, bare bones and a pile driver. This will never
succeed.
McCallion has held office for 34 years, and apart from a hiccup
or two, she has led her community well. If she employs brass knuckles, bare
bones and a pile driver she does so discreetly so that her electors never
realize what she is doing. Possibly this is the reason for her success
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Aurora's previous Council was not a team in any sense of the word.
It was a gang with all the characteristics embodied in that term
A couple of ruthless musclemen and a bunch of followers.
Initially it was a slate of candidates with a majority of one.
Along with Denial of Charter Rights and Defamation of Character, they are charged with Abuse of Authority and Abuse of Public Resources.
The last fits the terms of a Breach of Public Trust.
They are being defended with public resources.
In the last campaign, students at St Maximillian Kolbe High School held a mock election as part of their studies.
A student sought an outline of my campaign platform.
I explained that basically I ask for people's trust.
Individual candidates cannot keep promises, I said.
Whatever is achieved ...or not...is the work of the entire Council.
I outlined what I thought were priorities .
Several e-mail exchanges and a phone call followed while the student tried to comprehend what I stood for.
She needed something from me to encourage votes on my behalf.
Nothing I said sounded relevant.
I didn't hear how I fared in the election.
I didn't bother to ask. No doubt the student felt she had been dealt a losing hand.
The fact is a campaign is not fought in a vacuum. The familiar question is heard on most doorsteps.
What will you do for me, if I vote for you?
A promise to care, To vote always in the best interest of the community as a whole. An outline of experience and reliability is hazy at best
Candidates alone cannot be blamed for trying to come up with the most persuasive answer.
For promising what they read in the voters comments.
How many times have I heard from a voter," I am waiting to receive all the pamphlets, then I will sit down ,read them all and make my decision." like because the word is written, it must be believed.
I'm not sure there is more substance to it than there is in a candidate's promises. It's a dance. We all know the steps.
It means a campaign is a two-way street.
Anyone who writes off the deliberate role of the voter hugely underestimates the power and the authority that goes with it.
All they have to do is disrespect it.
The last Council discovered that to their cost.
As I believe has been done with Rob Ford to discover the extent of that mistake.
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Monday 3 December 2012
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Your lawsuit raises all kinds of questions that you probably cannot answer. I will risk one. There seems to be no way that the funding for the gang can be terminated by the town. But can't something be done about the glacial speed of the process? You must be sick & tired of the delays.
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