Vows to use letters page as election platform each month and each month thereafter for four years
To the Expositor:
Everywhere around us, we can see/hear, read on different media, announcements and proclamations for the May 1 declarations of nomination openings for October municipal elections. Everywhere but Assiginack, that is. I wish to take this opportunity to remind council they have not been elected for life. Having stated same, I would also appreciate this opportunity as well to file a ‘report card,’ something contributed by the Electorate of Assiginack and through this media. I saw no reason to research back any further than November 2017. A one-year anniversary, so to speak.
November 8, 2017 – Norisle, Howie Mende (letter); November 22, 2017 – Norisle, Steve Lindsey (letter); November 22, 2017 – Norisle, Howie Mende (letter); November 29, 2017 – Norisle, Howie Mende (letter); November 29, 2017 – Burns Wharf Players, Expositor article; December 6, 2017 – Burns Wharf, Jane Tilston (letter); December 6, 2017 – Rogers Creek Bridge, Milan Lee (letter); December 13, 2017 – Norisle, Mike White (letter); January 10, 2018 – Year of Living Humanely, Expositor (editorial); January 10, 2018 – Hydro, Mike White (letter); January 10, 2018 – Norisle, Cassandra Szepanski (letter); January 17, 2018 – First Responders and Emergency Planning (FREP), Expositor article; January 24 – FREP, Lee Weimer, Keith Moyer, Cheryl O’Brien, Michael R. White (letter); January 31, 2018 – Social Tyranny, Expositor (editorial); February 7, 2018 – Ontario Northland, Michael R White (letter); February 14, 2018 – Ontario Northland, Michael R White (letter); February 21, 2018 – Medical Care (Assiginack generator for their Taj Mahal), Myles Clayton, Michael R White (letter); February 28, 2018 – Malice, Michael R White (letter); March 14, 2018 – Assiginack Electorate and Council, Andy Bowerman (letter); March 14 – New fire hall, Expositor article; March 14, 2018 – Emergency First Response, Michael R White (letter); March 14, 2018 – Taxpayers Must Speak up, Valerie Phillips (letter); March 21, 2018 – MTO Detour, Expositor article; March 21, 2018 – Water Rates, Phil Blake (letter); March 21, 2018 – Expositor Editorial on Election, Keith Moyer letter; March 28, 2018 – Location of Bridge, John Collins (letter); April 4, 2018 – Inept Mayor and Councillors, Gary Strain (letter); April 4, 2018 – Manitowaning and Sudbury’s medical gift, Michael R. White (letter); April 4, 2018 – new Fire hall, Milan Lee (letter); April 18, 2018 – Councillor’s Mea Culpa, Leslie Fields (letter); April 25, 2018 – Tekummah council receives 55 recommendations from municipal board, petition signed by 110 ratepayers (article); May 2, 2018 – Anti-vote, Gary Strain (letter); May 2, 2018 – Assertive Thinkers and Doers, MJ Gordon (letter).
I am finding great difficulty in a reasonable rationale to re-elect any of the present Assiginack council Members. They should properly deal with their fears of not being elected one more time, and properly announce May 1, and October’s protocol.
I shall be running for a seat on the Assiginack council, and my election shall present an interesting conundrum as council meetings, etc. shall be held in the underutilized Taj Mahal gazebo. I have been illegally banned from Township chambers, as well as other Assiginack locations. I vow to speak here, every month from present to October, and then so much more thereafter, for at least four years.
Michael R. White
Manitowaning
EDITOR’S NOTE: The letter writer’s avowed intention to use The Expositor letters section raises an interesting concern for the paper. We will be consulting our legal counsel as to whether publishing this writer’s letters going forward will constitute “advertising” under Elections Canada regulations.
