Getting back to my alleged subservience to the mayor, I can use last night as a good example to refute such charges. I cast opposing votes on two of the mayor's pet infrastructure stimulus projects that will be forwarded to the federal government -- $30 million to service urban sprawl greenfields in the old Sandwich South, and some $44 million for Eddie's west waterfront marina-canal. One third of the projects cleared last night will be funded by city taxpayers if approved by the senior governments. I was the lone dissenter on the urban sprawl project.
The canal-marina was defeated on a 6-4 vote. I couldn't, in good conscience, vote for a project without seeing any details or a business plan. Dave Cooke turned over the documents to the mayor a number of weeks ago, but the plan has yet to be seen or vetted by Council or the public.
This dodgy voting process occurred two nights ago and there is not a single word mentioned in the Windsor Star about this?
Why do I subscribe to this paper again?
1 comment:
I was thinking the same thing. If it was 6-4 in favour, would it then have been quietly pushed through without the constituents consent? This city seems to be run by the whim of the elite, not the people. (Good thing we have Halberstadt on the case.)
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