Posted Jan 22, 2012, 2:02 PM
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Join Date: Jan 2012
Location: Dartmouth
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I love this forum and I'm equally angry at that egomaniacal bully I have to call my councillor. But I'm wondering how to best turn words into actions. Glorious McCrusty (great name!) is just one example of the NIMBY sympathizers who occupy seats around the HRM Council table. (Arguably she's probably the worst, but she's not alone.) However, there are some bright and brave councillors, too - Darren Fisher and Bill Karsten among them. So I wouldn't want to see the baby get thrown out with the bathwater.
(Don't get me wrong, the people on this forum have been careful to distinguish good from bad, but others such as CBC.ca generated comments like "this whole bunch needs to go" and the media didn't bother to identify who stood where on the issue - even though Karsten made a point of asking for a recorded vote.)
So ... does anyone on this forum know of a group or organization that successfully turned urban density (or a similarly pro-development position) into a key platform issue during a municipal election? I'm thinking we probably don't need to re-invent the wheel here. Surely someone somewhere faced a similarly serious situation and decided to take action on a broader scale. Learning from their experience would be a good first step in deciding how to go about removing the likes of Gloria, Jim Smith and Jackie Barkhouse and their equally incompetent colleagues on the other side of the harbour. Given that there are five years between elections, focusing on just one nitwit at a time will take about 70 years. I'd like to see it accomplished in nine months.
Any thoughts or suggestions?
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