tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1400574.post1487681649511110..comments2024-03-28T04:04:03.006-07:00Comments on Paying attention: Will a committee tame 'Wild West' municipal campaigns?Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1400574.post-44053024649176561252009-12-16T15:24:29.676-08:002009-12-16T15:24:29.676-08:00The fact is this can be done at the municipal leve...The fact is this can be done at the municipal level via by-laws. If so many Mayors want reform, why don't they pass a by-law?Quimbynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1400574.post-18161812292269296212009-12-13T15:17:09.941-08:002009-12-13T15:17:09.941-08:00Lets get down to the real story about local electi...Lets get down to the real story about local elections. People in this country are tuning out their politicians, plain and simply. They don't trust them and so don't bother to get involved. I just got a email from a friend back home seeing her family in Chile. She ran from the country when Pinochet overan the democtratic president.They were having a election this week. She knows the value of the vote and as she lost friends who disappeared during and just after the coup. Nobody has to tell her the value of a vote. Nobody should have to form a committee to urge us to vote. Bennet is blowing smoke when he says the opposition wern't interested.<br /><br />I never missed a chance to vote in my life and did so even when out of the country. The right to vote means a lot to many of us, but unfortunatly some folks don't bother and use the excuse" They are all crooked anyway" Some are crooked but we let them be crooked.DPLnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1400574.post-91862903037034433852009-12-12T08:40:29.687-08:002009-12-12T08:40:29.687-08:00Note that the NDP in last months convention came o...Note that the NDP in last months convention came out in support of corporate campaign donations once again. Carole James tried to push the no donation shtick in 2005 and got nowhere with it.<br /><br />This municipal corruption is shows why Vancouver was unable to get it's citywide wireless going.<br /><br />Also shown is why Vancouver has some of the worst taxi service in North America. City taxi licenses issued for a few hundred dollars to select eligibles in the business immediately are worth hundreds of thousands.sethhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02513074520233228963noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1400574.post-78739639520900403322009-12-12T08:29:17.183-08:002009-12-12T08:29:17.183-08:00PW wrote: "Bennett says the idea of including...PW wrote: <i>"Bennett says the idea of including New Democrats or independent MLA Vicki Huntington never came up and they didn't ask to be involved during the planning stages."</i><br /><br />Huntington is understandable as she only has so much time and must choose her battles wisely. <br /><br />The NDP? Paul, it would have strengthened your column to have given them a call. Somehow... taking Bennett at his word does not seem to be a prudent course.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com