Oops congratulations withdrawn

A couple of posts ago I congratulated the company building the new County building for its ecological sense whn laying out the site by having barriers around the driplines of the protected trees, Well forget it - yesterday the company was back putting in a permanent fence and some of it is now inside the dripline, shame!

Forest Pigs Strike Again This Time At Policeman And His Dog (from Daily Echo)

And we thought the pig attacks were over!! Forest Pigs Strike Again This Time At Policeman And His Dog

Dangerous Pig Removed From Forest

So it's over the killer pig has been caged and removed from the New Forest! read it here

The local school trustee race

As you can see, when you visit the campaign opinion page, here, you will notice that I have ignored the school trustees races. It is intentional, they should not exist and by ignoring them I hope that their redundancy and lack of usefulness to the political scene will be noticed. There should be one big school board that takes care of diversity and religious education by means of an expanded and heavy handed curriculum committee.

I did notice that one candidate _Allen McLennan has the most colourful signs and obviously a lot of money to spend on a frivolous position that places people on local positions to rubberstamp the Provincial decisions. If that's what he wants who am I so stop him?

One good reason not to have a trustee is that in the local issues of school closings nobody seems to support the parents at the Board level, so why have them?

When the public sector beats the private sector hands down

Ever wondered why we have such great public buildings, they don't cut corners to maximize profit! Look at the site preparation for the new County Building. Good fences and all the trees protected with barriers right out to the dripline. The last private site that protected some of the trees, most don't, (remember the developer on D'Arcy St./ Rankin Blvd) I observed kept moving the dripline barriers to suit the construction, poor trees!

Some stories are very strange

Try this story on for size Fears Grow As Huge Pig Attacks Four People In A Week (from Daily Echo)
I always thought the strange animal tales came from killer elephants in India, but a giant pig (nicknamed Boardicea) in the New Forest in England!!

A new look out of necessity

I have had to change the template because the previous one will not display in my browser. I am using Firefox as opposed to Internet Explorer (I like to stick it to Bill Gates as much as possible and avoid Microsoft products if I can). So I will slowly get back the features that you have been using, the election poll has been well used.

First edition of the election summary page

After one week of official campaigning this is the impression I'm left with - Delanty has his team going well and not much is being done by anyone else. Don't candidates realise that there are only so many days left and you never get them back.

Here is the page that will get most of my attention in the coming weeks. Please comment freely and often, this will liven up the cyberelection but only if you contribute. I will need pics of the candidates so if you have any send them over, website URLs too.

OK some of the candidates have signs - big deal!

Ok we now see some signs from some of the candidates, I just hope they are pounding the pavement because they appear to have done little else. Where are the press releases, where are the position papers just what do they think? I see that the Northumberland News has a list of candidates here and the Cobourg Daily Star has one here. I am working on a page that will reflect how I think based on what I see so if the candidates want to get ink from me they had better do something to get noticed. A final point it seems that the hardest working campaigners so far are the incumbents, maybe that will change this week when Dean McCaughey runs out of friends lawns and Peter Delanty has run through the local Liberal Party's sign list.

On a completely different vein I see that there will be a "domino run" of cereal boxes to draw attention to the fact some people can't afford to buy food. I don't get it why, is so much energy put into being "Lady Bountifuls" and not enough effort being put into forcing the governments to pay poor people more. Ending the child tax credit clawback and raising the minimum wage would be much more helpful than stacking boxes of cereal.

The list is closed now where the hell are the candidates?

The list closed last Friday and what have we got in the way of coverage or presence? Some green Delanty signs and a few white and red Sherwin signs and very few gothic black signs for Brocanier. I just hope that the candidates are banging on doors other than mine and having their printed leaflets distributed. There is a campaign going on here and I want to see something!!

Now that the deadline to register to run for Council is past, when will you give us a synopsis of all the Cobourg candidates' strengths and weaknesses? And while you're at it, maybe you could set up a poll or something on line and come up with predictions on who the winners will be? You've got lots of time, right?

This was a comment on the last post, Oh yeah I have lots of time that's why you haven't had any comments lately. I have been fighting the good fight with the floor sanders and have had to be out of the house for three days last week, couple that with work and I'll soon find plenty of time to write (sarcasm folks!)

But I will have a synopsis of the candidates and some comments about them in due course. Just a little tale: the day after the Cobourg paper wore out the presses by printing all the candidates in colour (I bet Darren Murphy had a s***fit about the extra costs) the love of my life said to me "What are these Xs and Os on this paper?" They were my picks. "Why are some more crossed out than others?" the answer to that was easy and can never be replicated in a ballot - "The more scratches on a face means just how badly you want them to lose."