{"id":7930,"date":"2014-08-27T17:28:04","date_gmt":"2014-08-27T21:28:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/?p=7930"},"modified":"2014-08-27T17:28:04","modified_gmt":"2014-08-27T21:28:04","slug":"mayors-rebuttal-doesnt-wash-with-kean","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/mayors-rebuttal-doesnt-wash-with-kean\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cMayor\u2019s rebuttal\u201d doesn\u2019t wash with Kean"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I can\u2019t believe that Mr. Dawe, in my opinion, has such a short memory. Wow, he states that I asked for his support. What a crock that is. I went door-to-door on his street and I had no idea who he was the first time that I ran.<br \/>\nHe said that I could put a sign on his lawn. I did not know his name and I was asking everyone if I could put a sign on his lawn.<br \/>\nBy his statement he actually thought that I knew him. Wrong.<br \/>\nHe avoids, as usual, answering the real question: did he promise to get Council\u2019s hand out of taxpayers\u2019 pockets? I have a copy of his brochure and, yes, he did promise that.<br \/>\nHe does not answer why Don Constable managed to get voted in by Dawe\u2019s Council over other more suitable opponents.<br \/>\nHe does not answer any questions about the cost of the revamp of the original Centre on Industrial.<br \/>\nHe does not answer the questions about over costs<br \/>\nunder his watch. He does not answer whether the taxpayers of Aurora can afford a new home for the Works Department and the extra costs over the original quote.<br \/>\nHe does not answer whether he did or did not say that it was OK for Council to charge alcohol to residents.<br \/>\nHe makes a statement that his tax increases are \u201cmuch\u201d less than Councils that I sat on with Tim Jones and his group of five as mayor. Please produce those numbers as proof.<br \/>\nMr. Dawe, what are you going to promise this time?<br \/>\nI have nothing against you, but I do have a lot against the way things have gone since you were elected mayor.<br \/>\n<strong><br \/>\nNigel Kean<br \/>\nAurora<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I can\u2019t believe that Mr. Dawe, in my opinion, has such a short memory. Wow, he states that I asked for his support. What a crock that is. I went door-to-door on his street and I had no idea who he was the first time that I ran. He said that I could put a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7930","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-letters-opinion"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7930","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=7930"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7930\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7930"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7930"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7930"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}