A dirty election just got a little dirtier - all the guns are trained on the one candidate.

council 100x100By Staff

October 15th, 2018

BURLINGTON, ON

 

There is an absolutely despicable advertisement being published that links the words spousal abuse with Mayoralty candidate Marianne Meed Ward.

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It takes comments made 20 years ago so out of context that it is laughable.

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Using ridiculously small type to identify the advertiser is well outside the spirit of the legislation that approved Third Party advertising.

The ad is paid for by one of the Third Party Advertisers – a numbered corporation. The type identifying the advertiser is so small you need a magnifying glass to read it.

Why would the advertiser make a point of hiding the name?

Because they don’t want to know who he really is.

All the numbered corporations that registered as Third Party advertisers belonged to restaurateur Sean Baird

There are three people who don’t want Meed Ward to win: The current Mayor, Rick Goldring, former MP and city Councillor Mike Wallace and hopeful Greg Woodruff.

This is the dirtiest local election campaign Burlington has ever seen.

Are intensification, grid lock, lousy transit and dirty elections Burlington’s future?

You get to decide that on the 22nd.

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