A few jottings
First things first:
Good news for a baseball buff who likes the vacation spot in Las Vegas, here. Let's play in Vegas! But seriously with the BJs out of contention this morning, how will this help when the press in Vegas complain about the lack of the will to win by their ball team, kinda sounds like the Rogers team !
Where's the paperwork?
For the second time this month no agenda was published online for the Executive meeting of Cobourg Council. Makes one think that they either don't care about the public or they just prefre to soldier on in secrecy. Sad!
Election signs:
Two items; one was an email from a regular who asked if the County bylaw is unconstitutional and the other a brilliant rebuttal to the question, "Why is Paul Macklin asking to be re-elected ? The first answer from me is that I don't know if the County law is unconstitutional and it will cost a lot of money to find out. "Postering" - the practise of putting up posters on public property has been cleared by the Supreme Court in a case in Peterborough many years ago, perhaps "signing" could be proven allowable as an extension of that case. But folks get your money out to pay for the lawyers to prove it. The second point - Macklin's signs - was easily explained in a beautiful piece of semantical polemic (wordy academic argument). Since Macklin had been elected more than once he was entitled to ask to be re-elected again. Not being the incumbent doesn't make the use of the word exclusive to the incumbent. Pity Arnold McCurdy, a few elections back, didn't think of it when he recycled his signs in a municipal election and took a lot of flak for it.
A few election sites to watch:
Good news for a baseball buff who likes the vacation spot in Las Vegas, here. Let's play in Vegas! But seriously with the BJs out of contention this morning, how will this help when the press in Vegas complain about the lack of the will to win by their ball team, kinda sounds like the Rogers team !
Where's the paperwork?
For the second time this month no agenda was published online for the Executive meeting of Cobourg Council. Makes one think that they either don't care about the public or they just prefre to soldier on in secrecy. Sad!
Election signs:
Two items; one was an email from a regular who asked if the County bylaw is unconstitutional and the other a brilliant rebuttal to the question, "Why is Paul Macklin asking to be re-elected ? The first answer from me is that I don't know if the County law is unconstitutional and it will cost a lot of money to find out. "Postering" - the practise of putting up posters on public property has been cleared by the Supreme Court in a case in Peterborough many years ago, perhaps "signing" could be proven allowable as an extension of that case. But folks get your money out to pay for the lawyers to prove it. The second point - Macklin's signs - was easily explained in a beautiful piece of semantical polemic (wordy academic argument). Since Macklin had been elected more than once he was entitled to ask to be re-elected again. Not being the incumbent doesn't make the use of the word exclusive to the incumbent. Pity Arnold McCurdy, a few elections back, didn't think of it when he recycled his signs in a municipal election and took a lot of flak for it.
A few election sites to watch:
- Adam Radwanski's "Election rating" here. A regular grading of the leaders's performances.
- Election prediction, local style here. This site is part of the "Election Prediction Site" where people log on and give their opinions about the election, ridings and seat projections.
- "Campaign Perspectives" - Carlton Univerity's J-School election project here
- Macleans blogs, a collection of election thoughts here
2 comments:
It hasn't taken me long to realize that the mayor and his coattail hangers, feel they are unaccountable to the public, are low on transparency, and arrogant.
The situation in Victoria Park this past summer was the same as the previous, so Spooner-fed rooter-Rotary sat on his hands and did diddley-squat to prevent the problem. I'm sure he is sucking up compliments with the bigotry class, commiserating about those "certain groups" but DOING NOTHING. Thank Allah, that he will be out of council for the next run -- it's either that or he undergoes the ignomy of not being re-elected.
Imagine the humiliation it must have been to him to have garnered less votes than Miriam Mutton. Spooner's prescription of political-Viagra has expired.
I think I'll drop into council meeting this evening just to watch a demonstration of their ineptitude.
BTW, drop into my blog COBOURG OF ALL THINGS at cobourgtown.blogspot.com
Whether Macklin should have "re-elect" on his signs is a complete non-issue.
A more pressing isues is whether we want, or can afford, another Conservative government. For those who beleive the answer is "no" the issue then becomes whether a Liberal governement would be any better, or whether a vote for NDP or Green would lead to personal satisfation but also a guilty feeling that it let the Tories back in.
For people to beleive that "elect" or re-elect" is importanat they must also:
be ignorant of the identity of the last two or three incumebents in this riding,
and
beleive the "Elect" is a command, rather like "Drink Coca Cola". Does anybody think this phrase makes it mandatory, or even advisable?
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