Does
Councilor Lauder Have Any Idea What She's Doing?
Lauder
Claim that the UTRCA Motion was put forth without time to study is a load of
crap!
Connie Lauder claimed in a Sentinel Review
article yesterday that she had no idea what she was voting on and that she had
no time to study the motion that was before her...so she voted yes, to support
the motion even though she had no idea what she was doing.
That's nice!
In Her words...quoted directly from the S-R article by Hugo
Rodrigues..
"(The resolution) was put together quickly and
everything was push, push, push," Lauder said. "We didn’t have
time to do anything or discuss it any further. There was nothing from staff,
absolutely nothing."
So, Connie was unable to ask for a deferral because of what?
Nothing. She could have put forth a motion to ask to defer a
decision until she had information, but instead, decided to just vote, without
any information before her. She didn't even request a discussion on the
matter. She forwarded the motion in question, and the balance of the
board(overwhelmingly I might add) voted to support the motion. For her to
state that she had no idea what she was voting on shows a complete disregard
for the process.
This is a lack of due diligence on her part.
Ms Lauder should have informed council that she was in
possesion of information that could have had an effect on what decisions
council was about to make on the park issue.
Instead, Ms lauder remained silent(the same silence that our
mayor used when seated on the Info Energy board) and di not disclose any
information to council, which means she witheld this information from the
public, on purpose, and for what purpose?
And this makes me wonder how many more decisions she has
made on the UTRCA board, or even on city council without studying the actual
situation where she just voted because everyone else in the room seemed to be
doing the same thing.(and of course, no one wants to seem out of step with the
others on the board or council)
So, personally I think that she should have to resign one of
her posts.
Obviously she has no idea what she is doing, and she has
indicated this with her own words.
It's time for Connie Lauder to take an early leave.
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Some of Our Bloggers
Comments...
"You're right. I agree
that it's time to see her go.
This is a farce this entire mess. It's time to bring it to an end, and
stop procrastinating. Woodstock needs to back off and turn this thing
down now."
"Absolutely ridiculous
that she would so blatantly present such a motion without examing it
first hand, and it looks as though she is lying according to various
stories in print"
"More than a lack of due
Diligence. Here you have a councillor that readily admits she raised her
hand and voted in agreement with something that she did not
understand,and then even went so far as to state she had no idea what
she was voting on,but then says what she voted on doesn't matter, and
then on top of this, she sits on council, and refuses to release the
details of the UTRCA motion to the balance of councillors?
She ought to resign, but then you would be stuck with that Simard
fellow. and what is worse, him or her?
Why would she withold these details from the rest of us?"
"Ever notice that the
people who get repremanded for doing a bad job at work around this town
are the hard working service people who make your coffee and hamburgers.
No high ranking officials are ever disciplined when they get caught with
their hands in the cookie jar. The Mayor could probably rape his dog and
still be invited to the policeman's ball. No doubt Council Conjob will
remain seated right where she is, I don't think she's informed enough to
hold a job at McDonalds"
"Yes, if you drop a
hamburger patty at mcd's, you'll have it docked from your pay.
You overspend by a few million on a city budget or county building, you
get a christmas bonus."
"Wasn't she the former
city clerk?
Maybe someone should look back at what she did when she worked
there"
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