By Pepper Parr
January 27th, 2018
BURLINGTON, ON
ECoB announces that it is going to hold a Workshop for anyone interested on running for office in the October municipal election.
Then along comes an Aldershot resident with this message:
Aldershot resident Greg Woodruff
“If anyone knows anyone willing to run in Ward 4 or 5 please get in contact through the Burlington Citizens for Responsible Development (CfRD) – RDev.org Facebook page or you can contact me through https://gregwoodruff.com .
The organization’s Facebook page includes this statement:
Citizens for Responsible Development seeks to make sure that developments are of value to local residents, consistent with local character and enhance the livability of the community in which they are placed.
“We have people lined up to challenge all wards and Mayor only 4 and 5 are needed.”
There goes the united front.
Greg Woodruff talking to a member of the provincial cabinet.
The Citizens for Responsible Development don’t name who they have lined up for wards 1,2,3 and 6.
Greg Woodruff, the contact person at CfRD ran as a candidate for the office of Regional Chair in the 2010 election and, while he has yet to make a formal announcement that he is running for office he did tell the Bay Observer that he had plans to run for office.
Woodruff does not have any experience in an elected office. We might be looking at a ‘Woodruff slate.
heaven help us
EcoB and Rev.org are not are cross-purposes at all. I have one of their signs in fact. They are handling the 421 OMB challenge, we are working on some Plains Road cases. I have people contacting me who are interested in running and they are working a candidates workshop which will also hopefully locate candidates.
I hope you are not at cross-purposes. What we cannot afford in the fall election
is vote-splitting which gives the current council members a decided advantage.
Run multiple candidates against an incumbent and we will be stuck with the current devastation being inflicted on this city.
Why Thank you Mr. Woodruff and ECOB for determining who should be the anointed candidates.
Is it not precisely this type of presumption of omniscience that has upset them so in the first place?
To paraphrase Einstein; “As to the difference between Ego, Stupidity and the Universe, I am reasonably sure that the universe has limits.”