A response to the previous
Some response to the election edition
Hi, Ben:Well,
I'm very disappointed.I wish you had used your influence to help elect an actual council, rather than promote a hypothetical one. In particular, you are suggesting that people fritter away their precious five councillor votes by selecting some candidates who do not have a real chance to get in. This is one municipal election in a generation where (by electing three new councillors rather than just two) we have a chance to break the hold of the old guard in Cobourg. I expected that you, with your excellent historical grasp of the situation, would have been more, er, strategic.
Certainly merit should normally guide us. I know and like Rob, and I have met and was impressed by Melissa, and at first I thought Howie might be the right person to have the swing vote on council. But none of them has much of a chance this time, and there's a grave danger that MacDonald will slip back in because of lack of voter focus.
You could have helped with this. A few votes put in the right place could make all the difference. For four years.
And the response:
In my case I stand by the picks, I just cannot abide any more of what we have had for the past six years. Even three of the old guard would have been too much - MacCaughey in planning for 4 more years to give us more of the same - what the developers want in the name of pragmatism and cooperative development, MacDonald too bloody idle to speak up except to say "give me what Mr Peacock wants" and Spooner to say whatever he thinks you want to hear and then he can tell his Dutch Oven buddies what he told us,
No. It doesn't take a brain surgeon to be on Council and all of the people who stood can think for themselves and produce a reasonable consensus guided by the facts from the Staff to be able.
Three new councillors will not break the old guard there will still be a majority of them and none of the three will have the stomach not to be coopted in the next four years in the face of always being on the wrong side or being accused of lack of knowledge.
If the only criteria for a vote is to go by who you or anybody else thinks "will get in" then I suggest that you don't need an independent voter just a sheep with its finger in the wind trying to guess what others will pick.
Call me naive but if we don't start doing what we want then we will be stuck with what we have now.
BTW the sane one in the house (the love of my life) is also ragging me for this approach!
Hi, Ben:Well,
I'm very disappointed.I wish you had used your influence to help elect an actual council, rather than promote a hypothetical one. In particular, you are suggesting that people fritter away their precious five councillor votes by selecting some candidates who do not have a real chance to get in. This is one municipal election in a generation where (by electing three new councillors rather than just two) we have a chance to break the hold of the old guard in Cobourg. I expected that you, with your excellent historical grasp of the situation, would have been more, er, strategic.
Certainly merit should normally guide us. I know and like Rob, and I have met and was impressed by Melissa, and at first I thought Howie might be the right person to have the swing vote on council. But none of them has much of a chance this time, and there's a grave danger that MacDonald will slip back in because of lack of voter focus.
You could have helped with this. A few votes put in the right place could make all the difference. For four years.
And the response:
In my case I stand by the picks, I just cannot abide any more of what we have had for the past six years. Even three of the old guard would have been too much - MacCaughey in planning for 4 more years to give us more of the same - what the developers want in the name of pragmatism and cooperative development, MacDonald too bloody idle to speak up except to say "give me what Mr Peacock wants" and Spooner to say whatever he thinks you want to hear and then he can tell his Dutch Oven buddies what he told us,
No. It doesn't take a brain surgeon to be on Council and all of the people who stood can think for themselves and produce a reasonable consensus guided by the facts from the Staff to be able.
Three new councillors will not break the old guard there will still be a majority of them and none of the three will have the stomach not to be coopted in the next four years in the face of always being on the wrong side or being accused of lack of knowledge.
If the only criteria for a vote is to go by who you or anybody else thinks "will get in" then I suggest that you don't need an independent voter just a sheep with its finger in the wind trying to guess what others will pick.
Call me naive but if we don't start doing what we want then we will be stuck with what we have now.
3 comments:
Interesting choices on your slate - in this case with only a few
variations I would agree with you. What I do wholeheartedly agree with
pretty much is the "assault upon the order ... and changing of the
guard".
As usual interesting reading and food for thought.
Why don't you just say some of the incumbents in Cobourg are too damned arrogant to campaign, based on signage , etc. And another 4 years to boot ! Hamilton township ? Isn't that north of Cobourg ?
Yes, interesting response on the slate and have to admit the whole issue
around "strategic" voting sometimes just flies out the window - I did
like Howie's response to the signs issues - The Williams X was funny
since my boys were going downtown, and even Aidan at 11 said, "like
what's with the X, is he related to Malcolm X" as your friend from TO
asked -
Hamilton Township - well a few of my acquaintances from that area are
asking of Fred's bid "what the hell's that all about - didn't we go
down that road already".
School Trustee - sure we'll be living with Mr. G for another term - for
all the harping, complaining and finger pointing he still keeps coming
back - so I ask "what's that all about" - lol.
The Port Hope mayorality race - hmmmm - spoke with Linda once, seemed
personable enough as they say - but a little birdie tells me she has
bigger aspirations down the road - hmmm - wonder what that could be?
And the Howard Dean bit, well that's interesting - A friend is up this
weekend from California, and was joking that Harper and his troupers are
courting non-other than Karl Rove, who apparently needs lots of cash
these days - I told her that wasn't funny - Doesn't surprise me in
either case though - we've been moving towards US style politicking for
some time - now it looks like instead of sneaking down there to "boot
camps" in the night for " they are openly being courted -
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