06-07-2023, 01:37 AM
(06-06-2023, 06:34 PM)bravado Wrote: My Cambridge City councillor, Adam Cooper, posted this truly rambling letter he sent to the Region about the encampments in downtown Cambridge. He posted it in the “Neighbourhood Watch” group on Facebook that has quite a history of not being very friendly* to the homeless or interested in CTS, etc.
This is how low the bar is for local government here. This man routinely rants against new housing and yet is claiming to be a white knight, defending the poor taxpayer against the results of our housing policy. And yet the longer we do nothing, the more ammunition these people have against obvious crime and disorder. I'm just waiting for the follow up policy suggestion where we propose moving all the homeless to the next city and calling it mission accomplished.
*straight-up misanthropic
Quote:Some of you have been asking where I stand on the issue of the 150 Main St encampment as well as the related problems downtown.
I hope this will clear it up for you.
This is a message I sent last night to all regional councillors...
Dear Regional Councillors,
I am Adam Cooper, Councillor for the City of Cambridge. I urge all of you to read this message to the end.
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Man, that's pretty bad. I mean...leaving aside the extreme hyperbole (there is violence to be sure, but only the most naive person who has never watched more than G rated TV would call it "extremely violent"....or a dishonest person), and the utter contemptible lack of empathy for calling "living near" the encampment "horrific" but having no sympathy for the people in the encampment, and the typical Cambridge trope of whining about regional council being "governed from outside"....leaving all that aside, the letter is as you say, poorly written and rambling...he implores you to read till the end, but doesn't pay that off...the end has nothing of value added, just more repetition of his complaints.