Because I Care

...Or so it says on the giant billboard begging for your VOTE

3.5 Hours of Regional Budget meeting produced concerns over hiring two additional fulltime temporary workers to handle an overload of calls to the NEW Waste Disposal Company contracted to take over the job offloaded by the Regime. 

Farm out Waste management means empire building for the Regime but not a single word from our concerned councilors about $400,000 waste towards St. Catharines' main street often referred to as 'Tumbleweed Lane'! 

St. Paul Street left unadorned during the festive Christmas season, while life-long tax burner chair Bradley laments about being sued over his regime's water decisions!

Is this what Chair Bradley envisions with his now famous comment that "The downtown association has done an exceptional job of promoting the care of our city?"

$20Million dollars plus interest in todays money!

Its not a matter of skewering Jimmy 'Doolittle' Bradley for what he has done as a politician but for what he has failed to do. His record of failure spans half a century, five decades, fifty years of insipid indifference! Instead of fighting to keep and support wealth creating industry he stayed silent instead of at least raising his voice in alarm! 

https://newsalertniagara.blogspot.com/2023/01/im-alright-jack-ive-got-mine.html

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Bradley is not alone!

The genesis of his concern for the health and welfare of our community and its Citizens was decades before Preston Haskell's failed bid for mayor in 2006. In fact the scenario of wealth creating industry fleeing our community, one after another incentivized Haskell to go before council in the 80's where he informed them that they were not only failing the city and their constituents but that they were also failing themselves in their duty!

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The failing leadership of  St.Catharines managed to reduce the 'Once Shining City on the Hill' with its precious blend of wealth producing entities down to debilitating financial cannibalization surviving on taxation! 

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Good news for all the folks whose silence 
advancedthe diminution of our community, you now have the unprecedented opportunity to witness your elected politician fail to raise their voice of concern for our once grand downtown St. Paul Street of St. Catharines and you can do so without even leaving your home! Watching the five hour January 22 St. Catharines City Council meeting https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T9K2XJN_XuAy you will learn that without the sale of our transit system your City Taxes comes to a whopping increase of 13%!   

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But don't worry they'll get you next year! 

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Try Watching the 3.5 hour January 26 Regional Council meeting where you will find a proposed tax increase of 10% plus an increase in water rates of 8.5%! But hey what does a 25+% matter in times like these? Now do you see the value in retaining revenue generating Commerce and industry?

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Since his 2010 Biography News Alert Editor Preston Haskell has written a major work titled 'An unpredictable Place'         subtitled 'Beyond Hand me Downs'

Another on corruption part one is about to see part two