I know it grieves maybe even a significant number of red neck activists to see lawful remedies used to gain influence or control of municipal decisions.
Commonly these referendum initiatives fail....
because it is a matter of "fighting city hall" without adequate resources
because the courts and the electorate are willing to cut elected officials way more slack than they may deserve
because of not fairly weiging or even listenening to all sides of a debate
because of coming to a decisions based only on personal self interests
and sometimes due to dirty campaigns where hot buttons are pushed on the majority who have come to associate unions, CUPE, socialists etc as the enemy.
But in all cases; it is not public money that finances the presentations of alternate views. It is determined people who devote their own time, their own gas and their own money for little or no financial compensation. And that is a fact that many per diem men and women truly hate.... even with vitriol.
And that determination is what most galls more shallow; less public minded individuals
Commonly these referendum initiatives fail....
because it is a matter of "fighting city hall" without adequate resources
because the courts and the electorate are willing to cut elected officials way more slack than they may deserve
because of not fairly weiging or even listenening to all sides of a debate
because of coming to a decisions based only on personal self interests
and sometimes due to dirty campaigns where hot buttons are pushed on the majority who have come to associate unions, CUPE, socialists etc as the enemy.
But in all cases; it is not public money that finances the presentations of alternate views. It is determined people who devote their own time, their own gas and their own money for little or no financial compensation. And that is a fact that many per diem men and women truly hate.... even with vitriol.
And that determination is what most galls more shallow; less public minded individuals