Anonymous has left a new comment on your post "Mardi Gras In Aurora Is Spectacular ..Kudos To The...":
"Christopher has earned our respect and admiration."
For "our" read "my" - please don't profess to speak for anyone but yourself.
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Responses to my posts are important to what I do here. They provide opportunity to explain and provide background to issues that isn't possible in any venue available.including council meetings.
But sometimes a comment stands out.
Like the one above.
I deleted it first. Then decided it deserved an observation.
I am an elected representative. Despite everything that could be done during the last term of council, was done at horrendous public expense, to destroy my reputation,I was re-elected and four of six of the culprits were not.
Despite being chosen once again and in my twenty-fifth year in office, as a spokesperson for the community, there it is; a statement revealing a level of ignorance and disrespect impossible to fathom.
"Please don't profess to speak for anyone but yourself"
In the last Council, a majority determined my right to speak had to be circumscribed by a Code of Conduct.
Canada may be the only country in the civilized world with a Charter of Rights and Freedoms.
Freedom of speech was entrenched in common law long before the Charter became law.
In terms of history,the fight for equal representation in government is a recent victory.
The right is not as old as the country. Education is.
So how does such abysmal ignorance flourish in Aurora in the year of Our Lord 2012?
That it does is undeniable. The comment could easily have been spoken by Councillor Wendy Gaertner. As I read it,I could her voice.
The Councillor regularly objects, on points of order to something she heard which hasn't been said, such is her sensitivity to the need to silence anything she does not wish to hear.
Friday 27 January 2012
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"please don't profess to speak for anyone but yourself"
and why not , I belive your speaking for a minimum of 5000 ,people in this town , You know the ones that sent you back to office
Traditionally there are seven deadly sins: wrath, greed, sloth, pride, lust, envy. and gluttony.
The last can be dropped from the list when it comes to describing the GOS from last term.
The remaining six can be liberally applied in varying degrees to each of these failed persons. Everyone of them contains some portion of these deadly sins and nothing they do will ever eradicate them from their personas.
A Code of Conduct was for them simply a tool that they used with great regularity to beat up on you, fortunately with little apparent affect.
Look where they are now and look where you are.
The two of the original six who sit on Council with you are respectively a stupid woman and a very confused man.
The former cannot even read the notes that are prepared for her to use as the basis of her mainly pointless utterances.
And the latter would be a much more effective speaker if he kept his hands on the table instead of waving them about, an action that probably disturbs his thought process
Councillor Buck, speaking of reading comprehension, the quoted comment (For "our" read "my" - please don't profess to speak for anyone but yourself.) wasn't directed to you, but to a commenter, Anonymous 26 January, 2012 8:33 PM who wrote, "Christopher has earned our respect and admiration."
I only wish you spoke for others, rather than for only those that fall into lock-step agreement with your opinions and perspective.
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