LAURA WHO? WOOLWICH GOT LUCKY

Today's Waterloo Region Record carries the following story in today's newspaper titled "Woolwich Township fills vacancy on council". The regular reporter for all things Woolwich is currently away on holidays and obviously this reporter (Laura Booth) has zero background on the ongoing political scandals and machinations up here in Woolwich. The proof is in the pudding in that she did not write a balanced story. Unlike the Woolwich Observer she only interviewed Sandy Shantz and no one else for this story. She also did not attend the council meeting last Tuesday where the putrid odour of deceit emanated throughout the meeting.

The Observer story and Editorial can be accessed either directly on-line (Google Woolwich Observer) or from the link I have here on this Blog two days ago (ie. Thursday). Obviously I would expect that if she had also read the Observer story she would have known about the public's disgust as this whole "Application process" was a charade.

Sandy Shantz claims that council behaved fairly and democratically. Do you think that democracy is about setting up a process to recruit ten applicants who were obliged to make two trips to the Township building, fill out an Application form and then show up for a public meeting and give a speech; all for a masquerade to cover council's dishonesty and lying to the public? It was a done deal long before the ten applicants sent in their Applications. They were window dressing to Council's dishonesty. Council disrespected those applicants as well as the general public. This is Sandy Shantz's idea of democracy.