Just Like a Bad Dream - Only This One Doesn't Go Away

Sonya Paterson, a former defeated Township Council candidate (who ran on Richter's invisible slate) seems to be doing Councillor Kim Richter's dirty work yet again. You will recall that Paterson appeared before Township Council (after filing a jaded, if not inaccurate Delegation Request) last year to ask who the tens of thousands of Mufford overpass supporters were. Just like the rest of her crew, Paterson just couldn't let the issue drop after the group tried to intimidate Council and behave as disrespectful children. In fact, she just can't seem to let go with much of anything. NOT being elected should have sent a clear sign to Paterson that the ToL taxpayer is not impressed with her sideshows, and computer reconfigurations that mysteriously send out caustic e-mails all by themselves don't seem to command much credibility from the general public. Those "reconfigurations" occurred several times for Paterson.

After that zany Paterson Council delegation, Councillor Kim Richter promptly filed a Notice of Motion regarding the matter. At the next meeting when the Richter motion came up, Paterson we are told was present and smiling in the audience, accompanied by one piss poor "videographer". The Cheshire Cat smiles quickly vanished when even former slate pal, Mayor Green, did not second this wacky motion. In fact, no one seconded it and Paterson made the walk of shame out of Council chambers in defeat once again. You may also recall that prior to these antics, Paterson tried unsuccessfully to get both langley MLA's criminally charged by the RCMP for what she viewed as a violation of the Elections Act for their endorsement of some Langley School Board candidates. It was yet another embarrassing crash and burn defeat when the RCMP announced they had investigated the matter and found no grounds for this and other accusations against Township Councillor Jordan Bateman who Paterson also tried to pull into the matter. You would think someone would smarts after all that negativity and move out to another province or something to get away from all that embarrassment.

But....

Now the Editorial Board of the Langley Record uncovered some rising chatter with word that Sonya Paterson this week made some calls that included the local media outlets. We understand that she was also requesting that Mayor Green interrogate some Council members because they that had non-secretly met in the Municipal Facility with some leadership of the Agricultural Land Commission (ALC) to get an update on several Langley files and to discuss troubling gravel extraction applications and what the Township could do to prevent them. A good thing for the citizens of the Township, don't you think?

Apparently Paterson did not study the duties of a councillor to see that it includes meeting with staff and other orders of government to gather facts, expert opinions and relevant data, in order for them to make informed decisions on our behalf. It's a good thing this one didn't get elected, eh? More importantly, Sonya Paterson was not at the Municipal Facility during the time of this meeting we have discovered through our investigation. So, did Councillor Kim Richter get Paterson to do her dirty work once again?

Paterson really should examine who her friends really are. Both Councillor Kim Richter and an unnamed significant other have been overheard in public places several times laughing at Paterson for her zany antics. The most recent chuckle was at the most recent Douglas Day Banquet when Richter belittled Paterson for hiring two psychics to try and locate her little missing dog. It was a cruel maneuver that shocked more than a few guests. While these guests had no love for Ms. Paterson, given her circumstances with that poor little pooch gone missing not far from a major roadway, we don't see any humour in this latest Richter outburst that could not be overheard. Yet Richter and company laughed the night away at Sonya's expense once again.

While the Editorial Board of this blog doesn't consult mystics and psychics as a news source or otherwise, we could understand Sonya Paterson doing everything she possibly could to locate this (apparently) prized little doggy of hers.

The moral of the story is....When you become someone's puppet, they tend to lose all respect for you. Is that the case here perhaps?