Today's Paper had a local article in it about some kind of feud between a couple of councillors and either the mayor or the rest of the councillors or both.
What was interesting about it was it's claimed to be ongoing over social media like Face book or Twitter and I have to say it's well outside of my comfort zone and I have heard that people can come unstuck for what they write on these kinds of networking sites.
Blogs are bad enough, if I could have a dollar for each time I have been accused of bias, castigated for allowing comments (or commenter's for having an opinion) or even threatened for not removing comments (with legal action) I'd probably have quite a few dollars in the kitty by now, it happens quite regularly on local issues, particularly involving council.
I personally always question the motives of people who go to the media with stories about how they are being persecuted over social media networks and then the same people are on it themselves it seems, making disparaging comments about others, it makes me think their original complaint that they are victims is just made up for publicity.
The Sunday paper article was brief, but told a story and it is a story that many of our commenter's have been telling for quite a few years and that is that some people are just not in council to serve the community of Logan and certainly not the vast majority of the voters or anyone else in the division they were elected in.
The article in my opinion, also brushed over a very unsavoury piece of real life which had an unacceptable conclusion for some parties with a trifling line which did little to reflect the actual misdeed or the consequential eventuations which somehow may have seen real issues not even looked into by the relevant authorities.
The article points to each of the sides drumming up support for candidates to take on the other at the next election, and that is perhaps the best result we could hope for, a real live representative who will actually be available to the community without other agenda's being the reason they are, if at all.
Bring on the next election, we are all ready for change.
BTW if you are intending to run, why don't you lets us know, always happy to spread information to the public no matter how small the audience.
4 comments:
Certain crs are notorious for being eternal campaigners. The problem is that its at the expense of constituents all the time.
I can't wrap my head around the fact that so many people are either duped by the spin and so many could care less.
When are people going to wake up and take action against waste of our hard earned money and lack of real representation?
What am i doing wrong UNO,
i havent been threatened
with legal action yet. I
have told the world just
what a quack the editor
and certain sub-editors
are at a particular daily
newspaper is, and i`ve had
a crack at local politicians
as well, but the solicitors
haven`t come after me yet.I
might have to spice things
up mate by the looks of it.
What I think, annoys the little hitlers around here most is the truth, not their own modified version, not the version with half the details left out and not the version where only part of an issue is talked about.
When you get to the truth about what goes on the deals, the "negotiations" and how loosly the rules seem to be followed by some whilst they are enforced to the letter as a tool for intimidation some people can't handle it and make threats.
I haven't recieved a threat for a little while now, and I guess that's because someone who used to do the threatening is not in the general community these days and may be incapable of even doing it.
I think its time council dealt with this problem. Obviously its not going to go away and I can't believe that the people are impressed with the black behaviour.
One has to question who they think they are? Why should the Mayor drop everything just because they have an issue?
If it is a community issue surely it should be taken to the relevant committee?
Get over yourselves, you are only two in a team of twelve and the other crs are not behaving this badly.
If this much energy and passion was put into representing their respective divisions then maybe we would have halfway decent representation.
What are these two doing about the water charges - so far NOTHING!
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