Tuesday, January 21, 2014
DUMB YANKS. YA NEVER HEARD OF THE "CONFLICT BUT NECESSITY" DEFENCE?
From SFGate
Top San Francisco Public Utilities Commission deputy Juliet Ellis has agreed to pay an unprecedented $8,500 in fines for a conflict of interest in the awarding of a city contract to a nonprofit organization that she chaired. Ellis has also returned $17,000 in salary to Green for All, the East Bay nonprofit that was given a $200,000, no-bid contract in 2012...
From Real Estate Monthly
The executive director of Environmental Defence, Rick Smith, is a Greenbelt director and his organization received $600,000 from the $10 million that has already been spent from the $25 million Friends of the Greenbelt fund. The executive director of Ontario Nature, Caroline Schultz, is another Greenbelt director and her group netted $235,000. Stuart Hilts, etc., etc., etc....Incredibly, the president of the Greenbelt Foundation mounted a de facto defence of the practices by acknowledging that the conflict was necessary to ensure that the “best people” were on the board.
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I read the first article and I couldn't believe that she only got an $8,500 fine instead of jail time. Then I read the second article and couldn't believe that nothing has been done.
ReplyDeleteI don't know why you're putting up with this in Ontario, I really don't.
We are putting up with for many connected reasons.
Delete(reason 1) 99 percent of the population doesn't know it happened, because.....(reason 2) even though all the major media outlets had this story, they didn't run it because..... (#3) the opposition knew about it but didn't make a stink about it because.... (4) they didn't have the guts to take on the green parasites and make an issue of it, because....in any event, 99 percent of the population is too stupid to care.
And by the way, tj230 - after your last Alberta election, you'd have a very hard time convincing me things are much different out there.
Hate to admit it, but you're probably right Kodiakmac. The change in the population and attitudes has been slow but is really apparent now. People used to give a damn and have some pride about the way our province worked. I think the reults of the last election really sent home a couple of messages. People are only concerned about one thing: how much can I get out of the government. When that's all your worried about, you don't get too concerned about some other guys ripping off the government, because there isn't much difference between you.
Delete"...These green assholes are dictating government policy in Ontario and profiting from it at the same time...."
ReplyDeleteAin't that the truth. And then you've got the bag-lickers - OFA, NFU, CFFO - who don't dictate anything, but are just as complicit in causing the problems because they take taxpayers' money in exchange for staying silent.
I'd head for the hills, but they're covered in windmills.
ReplyDeleteCould be the start to a Shakespearean sonnet...
Maybe not Shakespeare, but....(apologies to Rodgers & Hammerstein)
ReplyDeleteThe hills are alive,
With the sound of turbines
With songs they have sung
With grinding gears
The hills fill my head,
With the sound of turbines
My head starts to ring
Every time it hears
My heart skips a beat
At the sight of dead birds
That fall from the sky like leaves