This week we saw classic Mayor Rick Green in action as the Metro Vancouver Directors (Green included) allowed a 25% raise in compensation to sail on without any objections. Of course Mayor Green did voice his "concern" outside and in advance of the meeting when questioned by the press. But once inside the Metro meeting, Green remained silent.
Classic Green...rambles on about unspecified "concerns" at almost every Township Council meeting and in almost every nauseating Mayor's Report. Yet Green is never specific about what his actual concerns of his are. Most especially when he always seems to ignore those very same vague musings, and either allows things like the Metro raise to happen, or ends up voting for something like the Township's Water Management Plan.
Mayor Green and Councillor Kim Richter spoke in unison for many weeks during the last round of Township budget deliberations about the economic downturn and the need for political leaders to live with less, as they claimed the general public was doing. Indeed Green beat his fellow councillors over their heads for approving a reasonable tax increase last year. One that was much lower than its neighbours. The same budget that now allows Green and Richter to fund pet projects and causes. As the Metro Vancouver Board member, Green will now be paid $316 per meeting plus expenses, as opposed to the old rate of $253 plus expenses. If meetings run over the allotted time, board members are actually paid more.
Green loves to spout off about such things, but he's the first person to stick his face in the big feed bag. The Langley Record wonders during these hard economic times where Horny Toad, Willy Nilly and the rest of that elk are now? How could their hero allow such a thing to just happen? We won't even talk about the rest of this article just yet. But let's be very clear that hypocrisy is very much alive in the mayor's seat in Langley Township. Take what you hear with a grain of salt there, as actions always speak louder then words when it comes to Mayor Rick Green.
Thanks to Jeff Nagel for a factual article. Wonder if his editor received any calls from a certainly Langley Editor?