2010 grade: B-
2009 grade: C-
2008 grade: C-
2007 grade: D
Linda Mosher marches to her own drummer—sometimes directly into battle, sometimes right off the cliff. Like Dawn Sloane, Mosher has a large personality that sometimes annoys people and, as with Sloane, that’s beginning to score her points in the report card department.
Mosher made a principled stand on the “tax reform” issue and resigned from the Tax Reform Committee because she felt sense was being left to the wayside, and then she spoke and voted against the proposal at full council. On this issue, she completely got it—she understood the whys and wherefores, and the long-term implications.
From time to time, Mosher pumps out various suggestions, seemingly at random. Some of them are worthy (her motion to have all committee appointments made in public, for instance), some have merit but she neglects to set the political groundwork ahead of time (banning soft drink sales from rec centres) and others are just plain weird (insisting that people be allowed to use blue bags for leaves). Still, never a dull moment from Mosher.
This article appears in Jun 3-9, 2010.
My only problem with Linda was her curt response to points I made at a public meeting on a proposed development. It was as if all she wanted to do was to quickly expedite the development. Many of the points I brought up were simply left unaddressed by the councillors. In a revised proposal, the developer wants to raise the height of their proposed condo buildings. When I pointed out, at the meeting, that the proposal was flawed because of obvious loopholes in the proposal language, that would allow for this, it was simply ignored. I don’t know if this was deliberate or a lack of understanding about the way in which the proposal was worded. If it was the latter, I’d have to give her an F ,if it was the former she should be sent home to get a letter from her parent or guardian. The councillors basically rubber-stamped a tentative proposal and hardly addressed any of the issues raised at the meeting. God knows what happened at the last meeting ! Unfortunately, I was unable to attend.