Wednesday, May 6, 2009
Steve "AWOL" Streatch to run for provincial office
Fourth Halifax councillor, well known for his repeated absences from council meetings, to throw hat in ring.
Posted by Tim Bousquet on Wed, May 6, 2009 at 3:03 PM
Mr. Streatch, who has spent a decade on council, said he first ran municipally because he wanted to make a difference in his Eastern Shore-Musquodoboit Valley district.Hah! "Make a difference"---what a knee slapper, that Streatch!
Streatch is well known for his repeated absences from council meetings. "Streatch had one of the worst attendance records at council over the past year," wrote former news editor Mike Fleury in his 2007 council report card. "Between June 1 and May 1, Streatch missed almost one quarter of all Regional Council and Committee of the Whole Meetings."
"I believe my time is more valuable than going back and forth," said Streatch when he was called out on his absences. "I find it a waste of my time, which I consider valuable. Regional council is one of my jobs. I have a family farm...."
True to form, last night Streatch wasn't present for the public hearing for the HRM By Design plan for downtown Halifax, meaning he won't be able to vote on the proposal when council considers it May 26. The hearing drew over 60 members of the public, perhaps the largest turnout for a public hearing in HRM history. But no matter---Streatch was feeding the pigs or something.
It's anyone's guess if Streatch will show up for next week's budget hearings. Like fellow councillors Debbie Hum, Andrew Younger and Jim Smith, he'll be out on the campaign trail, so who knows how much of a difference he'll be making for his Eastern Shore constituency. Likely, none.
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One should do their homework before making comments about people's housing situations. If you actually cared about the municipal structure or even what councillors do on council you would have done a little research to find out that Ms. Sloane actually started the process to move into her current house well before even considering running for Council!
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There's a contradiction here; was it a decade on council or not? If your not there at the council meetings, well, your not ON council are you? Your absent. Was it really 7 years on council? Is that a stretch?
Dollars to donuts he accepted a full ten years of salary!! No absent pay checks. That's no stretch!
Can't blame him for going provincial, the higher the government post, the less you need to show up, and the more you get paid! ..........Sweeeet piggy trough!
You wanna stretch that out!
Left, right, Liberal, PC, NDP, whatever, it doesn't matter: when it comes to budget time, councillors are working non-stop for a month to bring in the dough for their district. Cynically, that's pork politics at its worst, but that's the game that's being played--- and if they aren't there, they're losing, and their constituency is losing.
All of these pols running for MLA right in the middle of city budget time are doing the people in their districts a disservice.
Dawn Sloane is a joke, and Steve Streatch is all about himself.
Family farm hey steve, must be making lots of puppies over there.
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