{"id":6758,"date":"2014-05-21T15:44:02","date_gmt":"2014-05-21T19:44:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/?p=6758"},"modified":"2014-05-21T15:44:02","modified_gmt":"2014-05-21T19:44:02","slug":"voters-wont-be-swayed-by-cartoon-over-ward-system","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/voters-wont-be-swayed-by-cartoon-over-ward-system\/","title":{"rendered":"Voters won\u2019t be swayed by cartoon over ward system"},"content":{"rendered":"

I cannot understand how anyone, other than Mr. Pullano, could misconstrue Scott Johnston\u2019s cartoon regarding the ward system as a \u201cPaid political message wishing to tighten their control on Aurorans.\u201d
\nI thought Scott\u2019s cartoon captured, as his cartoons usually do, the heart of an issue in a humourous and succinct manner.
\nMr. Pullano also states that the cartoon \u201coffends the intelligence of Aurorans.\u201d It certainly did not insult my intelligence. Quite the contrary.
\nTo me, implementing a ward system could be nothing but detrimental to Aurora.
\nIt\u2019s no wonder us anti-ward wolves in sheep\u2019s clothing are being misled up the garden path not to mention being led down the garden path.
\nWhat with all that wool over our eyes we can hardly see the wood for the trees on our way to our fear mongering meetings, but you can\u2019t fool people some of the time, or is that all the time or does a stitch in time keep the apple or the doctor away\u2026goodness I think the sky is falling.
\nSorry for rambling, but Mr. Pullano\u2019s letter has subliminally affected my reason.
\nI digress. Back to the topic at hand.
\nTo divide a geographically small political entity, such as Aurora is, into even smaller geopolitical, parochial wardoms seems, at best, ill advised. Apart from affecting the unity of Aurora, a ward system would be more costly and would result in less representation for the individual citizen.
\nFinally, to put Mr. Pullano\u2019s mind at ease, although I can\u2019t speak for my fellow Aurorans, I feel most of us will make our decision on the question of a ward system based on its merits or lack of same and will not be swayed by a cartoon.<\/p>\n

Graham Wride
\nAurora
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I cannot understand how anyone, other than Mr. Pullano, could misconstrue Scott Johnston\u2019s cartoon regarding the ward system as a \u201cPaid political message wishing to tighten their control on Aurorans.\u201d I thought Scott\u2019s cartoon captured, as his cartoons usually do, the heart of an issue in a humourous and succinct manner. Mr. Pullano also states […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6758","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-letters-opinion"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3D2k4-1L0","publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-29 13:59:57","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6758","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6758"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6758\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6758"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6758"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6758"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}