God, I hope to hell we get rid of some of those idiot councilors come next election. One from the downtown is nothing but a friggin’ idiot (you just happen to carry magic anti-grafitti paint in your car, “just-in-case”? Do you really think we’re as stupid as you are, that we’d swallow such a line of shit?) another is a womanizing drunk, one’s been coasting on a dead man’s name for years, one wants fireworks confiscated (bad for you, but hey, take a harbour dip, why don’t you?), and another on the Dartmouth side is nothing short of a total cat-hating asshole with a long, long, long history of selling out and snitching on the hand that feeds him whenever the winds of shit start to turn his way. How did such a crew ever get elected? And even re-elected? Sad part is, the founders of Citizens for Halifax seem to be no better. We’re fucked if someone doesn’t do something.
This article appears in Jul 31 – Aug 6, 2008.
Are you a member of Citizens For Halifax? If not, then you should get on it! CFH is a CITIZENS ENGAGEMENT group that hopes to use the power of numbers to influence the changes you are asking for. If you agree with even one of their policy statements (and it sounds like you do), then lend your support. Apathy will only ensure that you continue to be represented by the same brand of councilor you have come to despise.
how bout actually talking to the councillors? they’re not hard to get in touch with, and most will listen. actually, they sort of NEED people to let them know what they want and how they want it, otherwise they’re just flying blind out of their own brains…..
If an elected city official doesn’t already know what the long standing REAL issues of Halifax residents are by now, then they either have been living under a rock all these years, or are indifferent to those issues. Either way, the public shouldn’t accept it and just roll over. If a councilor is feeling overwhelmed and unable to accomplish anything, then they should make way for someone else who may be able to do a better job. At least with someone new you get a 50/50 chance of them being effective in pursuing the real issues, as opposed to an ineffective councilor that we know from past performance that the chance of them being ineffective is close to 100%.Of course, this presupposes that a better alternative candidate is available and willing to run for council.
speaking of the “lynch vote”as a friend of mine explained to me, maritimers don’t vote people IN to public office (at least nobody with good ideas)… the ‘voters’ (and i use that term loosely here) just get pissed-off and vote them OUT, to be replaced by yet another crop of incompetent officials.that’s maritime politics for ya
Opposition (quite justified) to the current bozo council does not mean support or endorsement for Citizens for Halifax. That group, led by a shadowy bunch of behind the scenes string-puller puppetmasters, is just as bad if not worse than what we have now.
yeah but isn’t behind the scenes string pulling (corruption, backroom deals, grease money, patronage appointments, blatant incompetence, et al) at the very heart of (conservative) politics in nova scotia? i mean, it’s rotten to the core, and some things will never change here, right?
Yes Keith. And 9/11 was an inside job, right?
I dunno, Tiredoflazyjournalism… but I do know that the ringleaders of CFH are not a bunch I would place my trust in. One is the mouthpiece of a certain self-aggrandizing self-promoter who is suspected of using public facilities to advance CFH’s cause, and who likely is on borrowed time careerwise. Another is a large, loud, redhaired woman who cannot hold a job for more than 6 months before being shown the door because of her gigantic ego and utter lack of human skills. And then you also have the CWG cabal who wanted to bankrupt us all for their own little version of a two-week holiday. Just a bunch of sweeties.