munchito wrote:
bremer wrote:
Colin Best has to be one of the worst (sober) counselors we have, but because he works so hard at it people pay absolutely no attention to what he’s actually doing. They just see a guy heavily involved in his community and vote for him on that alone.
So what's he actually doing that has you thinking this way? Outside of the obvious red light camera and bag tag thing, where is he gaming us? Honest question because I don't pay as much attention to local politics that don't involve felonies.
Garbage bag tags? Check.
Red light cameras? Check.
Infrastructure levies? Check.
Extra money for empty buses? Check.
Last minute and not debated hospital levy tax? Check.
Velodrome? Check.
Additional consulting fees for velodrome 'studies'? Check.
I could go on and on. Every big-spending, tax-grabbing idea that's put in front of council consistently gets Colin's vote, because he has a big-spending, big-government liberal socialist ideology.
That's fine, that's the ideology that he believes in and he is certainly entitled to his belief system. But he does do a particularly good job of hiding it by never answering questions about his voting record. Instead, he shows up at farmers markets, is visible at landfill coffee days and the like, and answers questions about street names and blood clinics and snow plow schedules on the villager.
He is a great politician. Heck, he even has the possibly biggest anti-socialist in the history of Milton, kf095, voting for him. An amazing political feat, really. I do admire Colin’s political chops even though he’d never get my vote in million years.