CTV News has just reported that there was a clerical error in the voting of that disgraceful landfill buy yesterday. Mayoralty candidate Jane Pitfield is apparently speaking to the clerk to register her vote as a no.
Bill Carroll was as disappointed as me when he'd heard she'd voted yes like Mayor Miller. Like me, he was wondering who to vote for Mayor when Pitfield, who had looked so promising, seemed to be just as much a hypocrite as Miller. It had seemed that she was like every other politician who talks a good streak but when the chips are down vote the easy way.
It seems now that she backed up her vociferous argument against buying the landfill with a no vote. If true, good for her! We still have a viable alternative to Mayor Miller.
Bill Carroll was as disappointed as me when he'd heard she'd voted yes like Mayor Miller. Like me, he was wondering who to vote for Mayor when Pitfield, who had looked so promising, seemed to be just as much a hypocrite as Miller. It had seemed that she was like every other politician who talks a good streak but when the chips are down vote the easy way.
It seems now that she backed up her vociferous argument against buying the landfill with a no vote. If true, good for her! We still have a viable alternative to Mayor Miller.
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I wonder how Pitfield's misstep would look like if the media reported every single vote error. Would it then look like just one in a sea of voting chaos? Context is everything and by focussing on one person only, the media can make something routine look like incompetence and bias the voter.