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| The Armchair Mayor, Mel Rothenburger |
Well know newspaper man, and former Kamloops Mayor Mel
Rothenburger, penned his latest Armchair Mayor column on the weekend. It was entitled, "Sorting out facts from BS not easy".
It was a good editorial, although I did mention to Mel that
I did not agree with his opinion John Cummins was not taking a stand on
issues.
I told him that John has indeed been very clear on a
number of issues, of great importance to the people of BC. He will
continue to do so in the weeks and months ahead leading to next May's general
election.
Armchair Mayor Mel responded by stating to that he had:"
"... listened to Mr. Cummins'
AGM speech, all 39 minutes-plus of it, and pretty much all he did was rehash
old news stories about the Liberals and be very clear that the B.C.
Conservatives would do things differently.
How? Good question. Ajax? He's "not
ready to weigh in on that." Kamloops? As next
spring's provincial election draws ever nearer, still no Conservative
candidates for our two ridings, no one wanting the nomination, and no policies
on local issues."
Normally I would have said we hadn’t heard the same
speech; however I have it good authority that we both did (me in person -- and
Mel via the internet).
Regardless, I was there and heard it live .. and it was
powerful and it was moving.
John Cummins pointed out some serious concerns we as BC
Conservatives have with how the Liberals are governing -- and we are not the
only ones having those concerns ... not by a long shot.
Big spending -- big government -- big deficits and BIGGER
debts! They all top most lists.
Government crown corporations and agencies with out of
control management ... and need we mention Community Living BC again ...
there's rising fees that we have no say in (I challenge you to look at the amount
Medical Services Plan rates have increased over the past decade).
The stench of the BC Rail sale has never cleared, and no
amount of Febreze is going to help ... Christy Clark is desperately tryng to
straddle both sides of the Enbridge pipeline proposal, while at the same time 'playing politics' with the Alberta
government in a phony game of hardball.
