In today's Opinion column entitled QUIT SQUABBLING, Langley Advance Editor Bob Groeneveld put's the blame for Saturday's Finance Committee fiasco "squarely on the shoulders of Mayor Rick Green"."While the two councillors involved in this latest bout of bickering need to stand in the corner and think about how they might have handled the situation differently, the chief responsibility for this one falls squarely on the shoulders of Mayor Rick Green.
The newbie mayor has had three months to start to get his act together. He should be trying to find ways to work with all his councillors, to make his council work. That's his prime job as mayor - not to drive wedges. He gets no extra points for his citizens' finance think tank, if all it does is stir the council pot further.
He did unseat the previous mayor, but seven of his eight councillors were re-elected last fall, most of them on campaigns that did not include rhetoric locking them into 0-0-0 tax increases at any cost. And he, himself, did not campaign on promises of secretive meetings - quite the contrary."
As was predicted, with the slate reeling from their latest big blunder, they mobilized a couple of slate recruits that included Sonya Paterson, to write some letters. You will recall that Paterson ran unsuccessfully for council in the last election, and lost to incumbent Councillor Grant Ward. She was also endored by the Green-Richter Slate blog, so the response is predictable. It is amazing that these people who were not present for the meeting appear to know it all. A couple of writters clearly got their instructions from the slate, as both focused on Ferguson's Blackberry. What these uniformed pawns do not comprehend is that the Township has an official message alert system that advises mayor and councillor on their Blackberry devices of ANY changes to meetings and locations. Ferguson was making reference to this message system and protocol in the audio below.
As the Advance Editor points out, now is not the time for the mayor to drive wedges between his slate and council members. The economy is in the toilet and this man ran on a plateform of ZERO tax increases over the next 3 years. Time to get over his ego
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There is a new movie coming to a theatre near you - Slumdog Politico.
Best Actor - Rock Green
Best Supporting Actor - Kim Richter
Best Supporting Cast - The LFP Blog
Best Cinimatography - Bob Richter (video Bob)
Best Short Film - Rick Green backpeddling in video clip!
Best back-up roll - Sonya Patterson (queen of the defeated)
Slumdog Politico I do believe is a discredit to the industry and the Township. It is simply time the actors in this horror show grew up and tried to make a first run movie like the real thing and act professionally like the folks in the real movie set.
Someone elluded to this duo as a tag-team.....more like a nightmare duo that even the WEF wouldn't want on their stage.
The Langley Advance finally gets it.
Here's GREEN's intended spin:
The Finance Committee morfs itself into a lessor 'workshop' SUB-COMMITTEE and, then as chair, Mayor Green thinks "NOW, TO HAVE A SECRET MEETING OUT OF THE EYES OF THE REST OF COUNCIL".
Isn't this exactly the same manouver accomplished at last Monday's Council Meeting, when Councillor Fox tried to acquire a properly requested Interim Finance Committee Report (since returning to Council from his kidney transplant) but was DENIED when council was confronted by Richter's accusations of 'COUNCILLORS SABATAGING' the committee efforts if the report was made ahead of time?
What is "SO SECRET" that YOU, our taxpayer citizens, or, in fact other members of YOUR COUNCIL, cannot be 'an observer' at the so-called 'workshop level'?
Me thinks any recomendations made to Council will be so jumbled together that it be an 'all or nothing' styled recommendations, that, if not supported, 'council will do so at their peril', as previously stated by Green.
If Sad Sonya is the best Tricky Ricky can find for his slate he will make it very very easy for voters to reject him and them.
Of course, Sad Sonya should probably ask her VALTEC ex-pals Lee Losswood Roy Mustard and Peter Dolt why they dumped her after the election. It had a lot to do with Tricky Rickys disdain for her.
Not all is as it seems Sonya! Tricky Ricky and Kooky Kimmy are only out for themselves and don't give a darn about you.
Slumdog Politico is funny, but not at the cost of Langley suffering through a three year long Dark Night. Dump Green NOW!
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