Day 2 and your bad luck in finding this blog is compounded by the need to have skills handout #1 and be bored...
Today the focus was on who could promise to reduce the tax increase the most... and then the rebels who said we can have it all and nuts on the sundae... I like to use the opposite when joking money because there is no way to hold your numbers accountable... and the jokes just flow...
It was an election promise... who knew it would end up turning the land I owned into an airport?
A platform and brochures is important but variable. Last Council gave signing authority for millions if not billions to unelected managers... undocumented consultants... and some pretty shady people. This was done in place of Council votes. Was that in the campaign literature of any of the 2007 mayoral hopefuls? How about Alderman? How about in 2004, 2001, 1998...?
If no one comes clean and mentions their responsibility for handing over to a new Council a cash strapped, mortgaged to the hilt City what do the promises mean?
I promise to never again be that secretive, uninformed, naive alderman and lead Calgary to glory...
If as the leader of the race has suggested... it is easy for efficiencies to knock off $30 million in savings... why wasn't it already happening?
Snow removal? No problem... why didn't you say something... we on Council were so impressed with the increase in transit ridership we must have overlooked the number of commuters that just couldn't find their cars in the snow... my bad...
When it comes to joking the money it is impossible to be more ridiculous than the facts so try to use exaggeration, the opposite and limit the satire to the blindingly obvious.
Campaign donations are now in the evening news... some say disclose the names of donors now, some say after the campaign, some say forgedaboutit....
I don't think you can buy a mayoral candidate for the donation limit of $5000 per person... so we should find out how much it really costs. I think Council still has an auditor they are paying to stay home... lets ask her.
Calgary isn't New York where a guy can spend $1 Billion to get himself elected... the most money ever wasted on a campaign netted next to no support this time... so let's pretend this crop of candidates come with no strings attached to their candidacy... and do the jokes as they arise... with luck a candidate will get endorsed by Sarah Palin
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