Get your vote on folks!

[ollie]

Wow. Holy fuck. I feel so grateful for Jim Watson now.

[Thorgnor]

[rant=Thor]Fontana is on the same 'no taxes' bullshit kick as the rest of these self aggrandizing fucks who attempt to obscure their obvious Fed.Con. connections with populist promises that end up fucking the population over bby toying with their desires. You can't live in a utopia, you can only dream about them, the word itself means "no place". FUCK! [/rant]

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[Thorgnor]

is it a utopia, or an utopia?

[Velvet]

Ousted Ottawa councillors qualify for severance

Last Updated: Wednesday, October 27, 2010 | 7:06 PM ET Comments17Recommend4CBC News

Ottawa city councillors who were unseated in Monday's municipal election are entitled to severance packages, something that has a taxpayer watchdog group calling foul.

The "transition assistance allowance" was approved by Ottawa's city council in 2004, but did not come into effect until 2006. Through the program, outgoing council members — including mayor Larry O'Brien — qualify to be paid between $26,000 and $56,000.

Eight councillors qualify for the payments, and if they all accept, the city will pay out roughly $380,000. Bay Ward Coun. Alex Cullen, who lost his seat at the council table this week, pointed out he won't qualify for employment insurance.

"The severance package is really to provide some form of transition as those of us who are departing involuntarily find our way into the job market," Cullen said.

The payments are based on a complex equation. Councillors earn one month of pay for each year spent on council, to a maximum of six months. But some councillors, like Cullen (who qualifies for about $56,000), qualify for additional funds for serving on regional councils before Ottawa's amalgamation.

The Ottawa Taxpayer Advocacy Group said the payments to councillors, as well as those made to other senior city officials are too generous.

"There should be a citywide review of severance pay as it is administered, not just for council, but also for the non-union senior management at the city," Ade Olumide, the organization's chair said.

Olumide said a severance rate of one week's pay for every year served on council would be a more responsible rate.

Councillors who didn't run for re-election do not qualify for the package. It's not yet known which councillors will accept the allowances.

Read more: http://www.cbc.ca/canada/ottawa/story/2010/10/27/councillor-severance-107.html#ixzz13cj0LRmC

[Freak By Night]

He will pull a Harris I guarantee it. Get voted in on an easy promise (car registration tax elimination = Harris' getting rid of photo radar) ....

I thought it was allowing alcohol sales on golf courses that got Harris elected?

[Thorgnor]

Nope, backdoor deals and monetary hi-jinx, not to mention shenanigans and hoopla.

[Jay Funk Dawg]

http://torontoist.com/2010/10/which_wards_voted_for_who_for_mayor.php?ref=nf

this is the breakdown to who voted for Ford vs. Smitherman... Smitherman took downtown, Ford the Burbs... definitely a division here.

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[Dr_Evil_Mouse]

Wow.

[AD]

Looks like smitherman is giving ford the finger

[Thorgnor]

No, that's all of downtown flipping off Ford.

[AD]

Toronto Star has a different graphic at this link

[Booche]

Don Cherry Don Cherry's himself.

[Hartamophone]

Don Cherry Don Cherry's himself.

Actually I'm wearing pink for all the pinkos out there that ride bicycles and everything. I thought I'd get it in. What'd ya expect, Ron MacLean, here? To come here?

You know, I am befuddled, because I thought I was just doing a good thing, coming down with Ron—Rob—and I was gonna do this here, and it was gonna be nice and the whole deal.

I've been bein' ripped to shreds by the left-wing pinko newspapers out there. It's unbelievable. One guy called me a pink...a jerk in a pink suit, so I thought I'd wear that for him too, today.

You know, it's funny. In those articles I was made fun of 'cause I go to church. I'm easy to do it that way. And I was called maudlin for the troops, because I honor the troops. This is the kinda, uh... You're gonna be facin', Rob, with these left-wing pinkos. They scrape the bottom of the barrel, but AGAIN, I was asked, why I was asked, and I asked Doug, "why?" And he said: "We need a famous, good-looking guy." And I said, I'm your man, right? Right off the bat.

You know, I was asked: why, why, why [the] landslide. And I was in their corner right from the start. They phoned me. Doug phoned me, the morning. They'll get a landslide! And why? Because Rob's honest. He's truthful. He's like Julian Fantino. What you see is what you get. He's no phony. And I could go on right now, all the millions and millions and thousands of dollars he's gonna save and everything, but I'd just like to tell a little story that was in the Sun, I think it was in the back pages. It was just a little, little thing. And Fiona Crean, for eighteen months, has been trying to get something done with City Hall. And then the story—I think some of you know the story—that there was a little old lady and all of a sudden she got banged on the door and two guys were there and said: "We're cutting your tree down." You know that's just a little thing, but to me that's a big thing. "We're cutting your tree down!"

And she's, well: "I don't want it. That's my favourite tree. A hundred year-old..."

"No! It's down. Cut it down." And then they give her, send her a bill for five-thousand dollars, for cutting it down. And for eighteen months her son and Fiona were: "City Hall. City Hall. Please help us." Thirty, forty calls. Unbelievable. Nothing. Laughed at. Rob's the mayor one day, apology comes, and a five-thousand-dollar cheque.

And that's why I say he's gonna be the greatest mayor this city has ever, ever seen, as far as I'm concerned! And put that in your pipe, you left-wing kooks.

Thank you very much.

What a fucking joke.

[edger]

::shudder::

Way to take the high road.