HISTORY LESSON-OCTOBER 24, 2015

A little reminder to citizens that our entire system is built for the purpose of protecting the participants of the system, not the citizens who are subject to it. This includes of course our judicial and political systems plus much more (perhaps educational, health care etc.). Back on October 24, 2015 the Woolwich Observer published an article titled "No further audit of Shantz's expenses; committee takes Marshall to task". Well that's O.K. because I sure as heck took those deceitful buggers to task as well. The committee was of course MECAC (Municipal Election Compliance Audit Committee). This committee is mostlr made up of retired/shunted aside former politicians who are still looking out for those in power as they once were. They are appointed by the municipal clerks in the Region of Waterloo which is a hoot. These Clerks are by provincial legisaltion actually supposed to be independent of the municipal councils that they work for. What a joke. They are hired and fired by the same so who are you kidding about independent from that same council. Regardless these MECAC folks were generally a pathetic disgrace and simply minimized and covered up the bad, illegal, questionable and incompetent behcviour of both Scott Hahn and Sandy Shantz. While Scott's errors were more egregious, blatant and obvious; Sandy showed her political savy and experience by making hers more subtle, smoother and at first blush less blatant. Unfortunately her fudging of her expenses (possibly to minimize the fact that she outspent her three mayoralty rivals together??) resulted in a very serious contravention of the Municipal Elections Act (MEA) as she well exceeded the $10,000 limit requiring an audit of her expenses. Of course that audit would have cost her more money that wouldn't help her get elected and hence that ausdit was no where to be found. ............................................................................................................................. The MEA insisted upon her getting immediately booted from office just as Councillor Mark Bauman had been. Local friendly judges, in a mockery of open, transparent and accessible justice, restored both of them to office albeit with conditions that mayior Shantz failed to ever comply with. Minor conditions such as a new election expense Financial Statement that was to include ALL her election expenses. She held out even on the last Financial Statement thus violating the conditions of her reinstatement to office. Those additional unreported expenses were provided (with proof) to the local prosecuter in K-W. Nada! ................................................................................................................................. The system looks after its' own especially when they play the game appropriately as Sandy has always done. Former Woolwich Mayor Todd Cowan went up in flames due to his own stupidity combined with being viewed by many local power brokers as being an outsider. He was unpopular with many and they turned on him. Our pretend mayor S. Shantz continues on until somebody with big money decides to bring her down. She is vulnerable.