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legalmoose) wrote2004-02-23 08:13 pm
legalmoose) wrote2004-02-23 08:13 pm
Politics as usual
Tonight was a prime indicator of why I will never go higher than I am in politics - I have a low threshold for bullshit.
Tonight is the Ward One "Citizen's Summit," where citizens get to listen to the Mayor babble on about city problems and priorities and supposedly offer feedback. I say supposedly because the feedback is all multiple choice to answers the office of the Mayor has already hand-picked so they can say, "Well, X% of residents said they liked option one!" at future meetings, leaving out the part about the choice being between bad option one and worse option two.
Plus we got there late, as I knew we would, and there were no seats. And with a broken ankle in a brace, I couldn't stand for that long.
Yuck. And some politicians wonder why the public has a bad opinion of us.
Tonight is the Ward One "Citizen's Summit," where citizens get to listen to the Mayor babble on about city problems and priorities and supposedly offer feedback. I say supposedly because the feedback is all multiple choice to answers the office of the Mayor has already hand-picked so they can say, "Well, X% of residents said they liked option one!" at future meetings, leaving out the part about the choice being between bad option one and worse option two.
Plus we got there late, as I knew we would, and there were no seats. And with a broken ankle in a brace, I couldn't stand for that long.
Yuck. And some politicians wonder why the public has a bad opinion of us.