In what appears to be an act of desperation, Mr. Dawe released his newspaper ad last Thursday, which turned his campaign in a very negative direction.
\nHis strategy for re-election initially said he was the best person to lead the Town, and now this.
\nAn effective leader does not act in a negative and destructive manner, they are not dismissive, and they listen and treat people with dignity and respect.
\nJust the facts?
\nApparently Mr. Dawe does not expect that a candidate, a citizen, should have a platform with a vision that is \u201cconsistent\u201d with the Town\u2019s strategic plan \u2013 this was twisted to be something bad!
\nThe role as a full-time mayor is to represent the Town at events as part-time councillors may not be able to do \u2013 again, twisted to be a bad thing.
\nI don\u2019t think Mr. Dawe is being transparent with citizens, otherwise he would also let you know that it was the insurance company who paid the legal expenses for a lawsuit that was brought on by one Councillor to the Town Council, not the taxpayers! Yet another twist.
\nRespecting taxpayers\u2019 money? Our town is in Financial trouble: borrowed $25M last month with no clearly defined re-payment plan, new public works building that\u2019s $10M over budget, renovations of the Leisure complex that are $4M over budget? It\u2019s unclear how this is providing Aurora with \u201cFinancial Stability.\u201d
\nShame, shame, very disappointed in the negative direction and personal attacks. This is not how a Mayor should act, even if it is an election. <\/p>\n
W. West In what appears to be an act of desperation, Mr. Dawe released his newspaper ad last Thursday, which turned his campaign in a very negative direction. His strategy for re-election initially said he was the best person to lead the Town, and now this. An effective leader does not act in a negative and destructive […]<\/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-8647","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\/8647","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=8647"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8647\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8647"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8647"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8647"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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