General Politics Discussion

[jeffster]

Not a fan for Brooklin. She made some fairly strong but untrue comments, over of Reddit, which I called her out on. In her post, she was attacking city staff and council for not doing enough to prevent a certain incident from happening. (It was the case where a Waterloo woman apparently made racist remarks to a person of a different ethnic, at the Drive Test facility). I pointed out the incident had nothing to do with Kitchener, if for any reason the parties involved were not from Kitchener, nor was the facility run by the city. I pointed out that city staff and council does a lot more than just about every city - especially considering all of our community services that cost us hundred of millions.

She did admit that she didn't know any of the details of this event, but there lies the problem. Calling other people out for things they didn't do, nor have any control over, is simply wrong.

I dunno...there are significantly greater problems with the city than someone who is too quick to judge an event one time. (Like, our resident NIMBY or other neoconservative folks.)

But obviously many people do prioritise someone being a civil establishment supporting person over any kind of radical viewpoints...but I think the byelection has shown that such attitudes are becoming more and more toxic...the status is not quo...

I need to edit my original content. It was Twitter (now X) that she had her complaints. Not that it changes anything.

My point with Brooklin though is, that we need level headed people working (staff and council) at city hall. We already have a crazy anti-housing crusader with Chapman, who got whipped pretty bad in the bi-election. It was the NDP's to lose, and they lost. We don't need someone who's going to drag the city down every time something crappy happens in the city, and goes around and blames city staff and council. She's useless, really.

I had the conversations with Brooklin over on Reddit, but she wasn't really answering peoples questions, at least not the tough ones. This was when she was trying to be the candidate for Kitchener-Centre NDP.