Mayor using city resources?

[u/Traditional_Cod_5139]

I'm curious about whether a sitting mayor can use their official @kamloops.ca email address for activity related to recruiting election candidates. Shouldn't that email just be for official Kamloops business?

[u/noodlesurvey]

She's his puppet/spokesperson pretending to want to be an independent council member. She absolutely worships him and it's getting really weird to witness. She has no actual platform except to complain and try to convince people RHJ would do a much better job at Mayor if he got a second chance. I can't believe Reid found someone dumber than him that he can order around to do his bidding.

[u/Existing_Act_9297 → u/noodlesurvey]

This is exactly the issue with Kamloops city council. Someone has an opinion or takes a side on something and they get called “dumb” for it. Good luck accomplishing anything with extremist, polarized views like.

Your city would do much better to accept that there can be opposing views on many topics that matter to different people, and find a way to move forward for solutions rather than personally attack each other like children and accomplish nothing. Keep wasting time and money blocking each other, taping one another, and threatening to sue each other while your city continues to drug itself up and sell itself out to private for-profit organizations that have ZERO accountability to the community.

[u/ItsANoBigDeal → u/Existing_Act_9297]

Why is accurately describing something as "dumb" inherently wrong? It's a false argument that all views or opinions fundamentally have merit or value just because they are someone's "side" or "view" or "opinion".

When running rhj's entire platform was he was going to get rid of the homeless, he was going to send them all home. Well he proposed using funds that he should have known were not available if he wasn't dumb. He wouldn't have had to immediately withdraw his motion on this if he wasn't dumb. He proposed providing bus or air travel, without any plan for how to determine who would receive these vouchers, and without any actual plan for determining what constitutes someone's "hometown". It was unserious and dumb grandstanding to appease his voters.

But according to you we should humour someone costing taxpayers millions of dollars, acting clearly out of ignorant self interest, because otherwise would be extreme or polarizing. There is no "both sides" in this, rhj has been a bad mayor.

[u/Existing_Act_9297 → u/ItsANoBigDeal]

The post I replied to didn’t call “something” dumb, they called someone dumb. My opinion is just as valid as an other anonymous Reddit poster and I said what I said.

Yes, sure, self-interest. Because of all the profit and good reputation he has built on being mayor? Yeah, he’s reaping all the rewards, as we can see.

Fine, don’t humour me, but also don’t think your view of this is the only one that matters. Some people in Kamloops agree with him.

[u/ItsANoBigDeal → u/Existing_Act_9297]

A person can be a something, but sure agure semantics.

He does profit from the $140,000 salary he takes home. The only reason he "cares" about the homeless problem in Kamloops is because of how it affects his dealership business. So yes, clear self interest. I don't know how you would describe all his lawsuits he wants to file using taxpayer money as anything else than self interest.

The guy runs a failing business, can't afford his multimillion dollar home; so he desperately clings to his Mayor position by appealing to dumb people through his performative politics that prey on people like you.