Under the watchful lens of videographer B.R. a whispering spirit arose from beneath the white cloak (five posts down) of one Mayor Green. Fresh off indulging on the good gratitude of the Township graces having attended an event at the Events Centre with a free ticket courtesy of Councillor Richter, once school trustee and defeated Council candidate Sonya Paterson applied and was granted a late delegation request to speak to Council.
Why Council allowed this, the Editorial Board has no idea because clearly it was based on a very false pretense. For all her experience and supposed knowledge she showed absolutley know knowledge of the Community Charter and the clearly stated roles and responsibilies of a Mayor. In her written words, she states, "the Mayors presentation reagrding the overpass." Now the Mayor states he was NOT presenting to the ALC as the mayor but as a private citizen. Well even his good friend Sonya is confused and hasn't figured out what role he was presenting to the ALC under. For someone who so desperately wants to be a member of Council she really and truly needs to attend some course work on good goverance and the implicit meaning of the Community Charter. This Editorial Board will research opportunities for her to get buffed up so to speak prior to any further public speaking engagements.
In her application to be a delegation she states she will speak publicly and further states;
" I will present a letter to Mayor and Council at the time of my presentation."
Well this Editorial Board would infer that would mean the letter accompanied her presentation but not so. She presented at 4:00 p.m. and the letter with the question arrived in Council's hand at about 6:00 p.m. One would believe she was not preapred as she stated in her delgation request but rather formulated the letter once she got home and then drifted it off through the cyber network.........hum, well prepared!
The Editorial Board has since got a copy of her presentation and the question are as follows;
.....The letter includes comments stating the “VAST MAJORITY of Township residents support the project” and “the community supports this overpass” and the largest exaggeration of all is the comment “the tens of thousands of citizens of the Township of Langley who support this overpass”. Where is the data that supports these comments?
It was interesting to note that Sonya Patterson's presentation was made before her party faithful as the likes of Eric Bysouth, Peggy McClay, Darlene Johnson and others were present and left shorlty after she finished. The irony of this all is that through the last Provincial Election all of these folks campaigned vehemently (letters to the Editor, sign campaigns and the like) against Mary Polak and Rich Coleman because of their support for the Mufford Overpass. Well Sonya, what don't you get about this picture?
Mary and Rich both made considerable gains in their numbers well in to the 'tens of thousands' of voters who supported THEM and the Overpass.......do you get it NOW? They won by garnering the most votes ever, so the answer is quite simple......tens of thousands of voters like them and the Overpass - end of discussion. They didn't like you and therefore they didn't elect you. Why don't you take the hint and find another community to move into and rant to. Langley has grown tired of Patterson, Bysouth, Mufford, et al. Time to get off the soap box you never had and stop the broken record.