Saturday, July 25, 2015
CHEMTURA, ELECTION EXPENSES, DIOXIN & DDT, SANDY & MARK
Two Councillors this past winter and spring manufactured and choreographed a "crisis" at CPAC. Two Councillors this spring and summer got booted out of office for serious indifference and contempt of the Municipal Elections Act. Yes they were the very same pair. Karma is indeed a bitch. It is my opinion that those attitudes of indifference to the law and contempt of rules, regulations and citizens are running rampant within Woolwich Township, including senior staff and council.
The rest of Woolwich Council sat back and allowed Sandy and Mark to dismantle and dissolve the best Chemtura Public Advisory Committee (CPAC) there has ever been. Woolwich Council looked the other way while the township's CAO aided and abetted the smear campaign of Woolwich volunteers by Sandy, Mark, Chemtura and the Ministry of Environment (M.O.E.). Was that all done simply because of the sour grapes and jealousy of two former CPAC members who were behind Sandy throughout her mayoralty campaign? Did she make promises to them for their support during her campaign? Was it because of right wing ideological beliefs favouring busines (corporations) at the expense of the citizens and the environment?
Or is it much worse than the above? How peculiar that the pair who were front and centre to destroy CPAC at Chemtura's desperate bidding (new Dioxin & DDT exposure routes); allegedly never received a nickel in campaign election donations from them. Legal donations or otherwise. I don't see a nickel from Chemtura or their employees, management, suppliers or customers clearly and legibly written down in their election expense reports.
Make no mistake these election expense reports (Financial Statements) are a joke. They are routinely fudged at the minimum and blatant fraud at the extreme. They are "voluntary compliance" run amok. I've already written how easy it would be to hide two $750 donations to Sandy say from Dwight Este and Jeff Meriman of Chemtura within her unnamed less than $100 each donations total of $1,658. Other donations/ bribes/ expressions of adulation etc. could simply be donated to her via cash and then put into her campaign account as say $5,500 from her and her husband.
To date this can not be proven. A real forensic audit might actually be able to prove it one way or the other. Yet Sandy pulled a fast and illegal one on the Compliance Audit Committee (MECAC) with her revised Financial Statement dated March 23/15 and two page audit. Sandy improperly shortcircuited the forensic audit route with still incomplete and erroneous financials on July 2. Then she went the tried and proven sneak into Superior Court route that worked so well for Mark. Both of them were aided and abetted improperly according to Justice David Broad by the Township's "no position" or "nuetral" stance in Court.
Again I was denied proper legal Notice to respond even if I had the money to hire a lawyer to intervene. Instead when I as a courtesy gave written notice to Sandy's lawyer (James Bennett of Madorin Snyder) that I would attend to seek Friend of the Court status, he started sending me threatening and intimidating e-mails .
All of this behaviour by our Mayor and Council is bizarre. Is this truly, simply because of the multitude of stupid errors exposed so far in her financials or is she hiding more? Again only a real forensic audit has any hope at all of finding the truth.
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A real forensic audit is a must. The problem with our local politicians for the past 50 years has always been either influence peddling/meddling (conflict of interest) and when they are not knowledgeable on a vote (which is most often) they will always trust their friends of their friends, even naively while not trusting anyone else.
ReplyDeleteI saw Cowan as a wannabee Crony Capitalist. I also see Cowan as a smart well taught type who would use communistic talking points till he could put a tyranny in place. I do not see Strauss or Shantz or Bauman etc. being "crony corporists" yet, however I am 100% convinced that our local politicians for the last 50 years were all completely corrupt with extreme conflicts of interest running rampant. In Woolwich this resulted in only "the friends of the friends" getting ahead, while everyone else just got a higher tax bill. The results are revolting and disgusting!!! (what else can they expect from us if we are awake?) These conflicts of interest are extremely egregious at our Regional Government level, but that's another story.
I want to be very clear, history shows us that it is 'the friends of the friends" of the Woolwich politicians that get their ear and support and NOT the big multinational corporations as it is done in Provincial and National governments. I know Mr. Marshall is an expert on our local chemical business and the evidence shows that this is an exception to my statement above.
Dear People we must admit and expose all conflicts of interest or our awesome community will eventually become just like the rest which are completely taken over by the true crony capitalist provincial and national Governments and systems. Validation of truth is happening worldwide now!!! This is the only good political movement available to us and it leads to FREEDOM. Conflicts of interest MUST be admitted and or exposed. Frankly if we the people do not wake up to the truth we will be destroyed in the near future and ignorance is not an excuse anymore.
Whether one analyses this Waterloo Regional and Woolwich Twp. disease of conflict of interest from a macro or a micro perspective...the result is always the same...a citizen will always get one of 3 responses from our public servants, 1. a helping hand or 2. a kick in the ass or 3. Nothing. (see #2) The real kick in the ass is when they when they hide behind the rules and regulations THEY made up to control those they disagree with OR when they already have a friend of a friend or someone they like in the wings they would rather give actual service to. They are NOT serving everyone, just the ones they choose to. This is a definition of Conflict Of Interest, however the truth is; the very laws/ rules and regulations that actually have been drawn up (for conflicts of interest) are frankly just the lawyerly elitest way of relabeling what is in fact theft and fraud, (Criminal Conspiracy if they have conspired with even 1 single person) , in addition to gross negligence... so when they do get caught they will only get a slap on the wrist instead of being hung out to dry, both criminally and civilly like the rest of us would be.
ReplyDeleteSo if someone does not pay property tax's for many years without detection can they use the same excuse given by Municipal staff to not pay? We've done it this way for years. Would staff turn a blind eye like they did in this case, or would they INFORCE municipal law? Its time we start holding those in townhall accountable for not doing their jobs.
ReplyDeleteoh not a chance, they would update the file and add the arrears onto the tax roll and presto a few years later do a Tax Sale and you and your equity would be outside looking in...worst yet they would send in their lawyerly friends in as bidders for your equity at say 50-60% of appraised value and low and behold when the dust settles the high bidder would emerge as the new owner of your home paying like 80% of its true value BEFORE they got onto your title via; tax roll. We have no property rights in Canada only the right obligation to pay property tax/rent.
ReplyDeleteVery true, in the case of staff at the Township, their is the question of doing their job properly and to the fullest. So many are on the sunshine list and it is very difficult to get a hold of any staff Mondays and Fridays. Oh my if you ever call bylaw on a repeat offender of any Accessory building in a residential area, you better hope the family and or friend don't squeal to the said offender.....forget the Privacy Act all together. This Township staff do what they want when they want with no accountability. This isn't one occasion but several. They charge permits and liquor licenses to all the parks yet have staff parties in the same parks with no permit needed and therefore goes back to the beginning. Our Mayor's job along with the CAO is to control the staff and instead hire more and take more holidays.
ReplyDeleteFor the past 50 years the problem with Woolwich bosses has been that every new group serves the same master as the old groups, and it seems worst now but that is only because the general public is beginning to wake up...this movement is sweeping the whole world right now!
ReplyDeleteThe problem is 1. we never have any excellent choices to pick from and 2. Voting in the past 50 years shows that the MAJORITY of the voters have NOT really known the person they are voting for. It is a fact that a bad vote is worst than no vote! Truth is, it is so bad I no longer trust the majority of my fellow citizens because of their choices. The "monkey business" in Elmira and St Jacobs has gone on for at least 50 years now and to really complicate matters Breslau is going to be a thorn in the side of Elmira and St. Jacobs, the movement is gaining momentum as we speak. And to top it all off, Mr. Marshall I bet you would also know that the Region would love to take over everything the Township does/has (a few of the big daddys at the Region level and their crony capitalist friends are waiting in the wings with a solution for us already all mapped out) to amalgamate us completely at the first opportunity. If you think Woolwich is bad you should see the financials for the Region. It is mindboggling!
These comments have virtually nothing to do with the actual post. It is pretty clear they are done by 1 or 2 people.
ReplyDeleteCould be that only 1 or 2 people have done these posts because they do all have the same name (Anonymous). They don't have your confidence John Q. to use their real names. Frankly I think they wish to avoid being singled out for smear campaigns as I have been over the years. Their posts do relate to the posts and I don't believe only 1 or 2 people wrote six comments.
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