Luisa D'Amato (K-W Record) wrote an Opinion piece on February 2, 2018 denouncing Woolwich Council's decision to appoint a replacement for Scott Hahn to Council. Then on February 8/25 the Woolwich Observer followed up with their opinion on Woolwich Council deciding who they'd prefer to work with versus what the public wanted. Funny sometimes how democracy works isn't it? Luisa's piece was titled "In Woolwich, a vacant council seat exposes bitter divisions". The Observer's Editorial was titled "Vacancy gambit means council has to deliver".
As appropriately critical as both newspapers were can you imagine if they knew exactly how perverted Woolwich Council had actually behaved? They offered the seat to former councillor Julie-Ann Herteis behind the scenes and went through the whole rigamarole including speeches and presentations at a public meeting of council . Wow now that really is a dog and pony show when nine candidates in good faith address a council who in bad faith have already, surreptitiously, made their decision. I wonder which mayor before Sandy taught her these tricks. Maybe it wasn't mayor Strauss afterall. Maybe it was Sandy's and Woolwich's longtime CAO, David Brenneman. Now that's a difficult question.
the one common denominator behind the demise of Woolwich and Waterloo Region is the bureaucratic non democratic
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