WINNIPEG, MAYOR KATZ'S DARKER PURPOSES EXPOSED !
Feb 9, 2009 17:48:20 GMT -5
Post by proudtobeadp on Feb 9, 2009 17:48:20 GMT -5
Anything good for the citizens of Winnipeg as a whole is soon done away with subsequent city councils with a vengence and a "darker purpose" these days and the following is why. The Demise of the City of Winnipeg Ombudsman. An experiment that succeeded so well the darkest forces combined in Winnipeg to get rid of it and did.
Such was the case of the Office of the Ombudsman for the City of Winnipeg. Citizens needed open and transparent government and having a citizen's Ombudsman was the way to do it. What it meant was that all core services of the city could be looked at from the perspective of an aggrieved citizen. The process was never meant to take away relationships and open doors citizens had with the elected from wards city counsellors, it complimented it and it was working and resolving citizens problems that needed more scruitiny than a city councillor could give it. It made the city bureacracy accountable and that is where the moves started to get rid of it.
To get rid of it the city bureacracy had to convince counsellors that the Ombudsman'e office was too strong and not in their best interests. To get their way bureacrats went out of their way to play politics of their own brand to destroy the relationships within the bureacracy and in particular with the relationships between the Ombudsman and the city counsellors. The other things that the Ombudsman office brought frightening scary nights to was the exposing of the the cosy relationships many city contractors and business bidders had with city administrations bureacracies. In these types of relationships who you knew got you places and money where what you knew did not count. This is the place where special future considerations and kickbacks reinned supreme. You know like, delivering less gravel gave the business the same money for years. BBQs turning up with bowes on the backdoor, parties with lots of free food, drink and complimentary bottles. Those ways of doing business!
The City of Winnipeg's Ombudsmans office was getting close to of all things was "city graft and corruption centers" and it ran the gammut of all city departments and services scaring everyone doing anything wrong to such a degree so that is there was a Winnipeg Police Service conspiracy led by former Chief of Police Jack Ewatcki and Counsellor Steek to get rid of then Mayor Glenn Murray. To adde to that they targetted his open ***ness so openly and at every turn it turned into a hounding of major proportions human rights advocates like lawyer David Matas should have been howling but none of that happened so Katz did instead. Everyone notices under self professed part time Mayor Sam Katz aka the Goldeyes ball club owner, his other part time job, there developed a huge push to privatize city core services as well as spin off services. That is to preserve and to expand the take of taxpayers already fully taxed disposable income dollars out of the city as their profits for their businesses where a city is supposed to provide services at cost for its citizens no matter what they are with indifference to the differences to ratepayers all being treated with great equality.
Clearly to accomplish all this for Mayor Katz and his connections and the city administration and bureacratic politics going on city council had to do away with the Winnipeg Ombudsman and clearly with enough votes the mayor and his clique of hand picked councillors accomplished just that. With much appologistic fanfare you could only find spun by Winnipeg's stitled right wing corporate media with a sweet deal of future considerations from the very gone right wing Doer NDP Government who are also joined at with the same connections joined at the hip with the same bunch Mayor Katz that the Office of the Ombudsman Winnipeg would join and murge with the odious Manitoba Office of the Ombudsman with the reputation of being nothing but goernment window dressing and in that abyss Ombudsman Winnipeg disappeared never to be heard from again.
Unfettered by open and transparent government anymore it has been full steam ahead of the Mayor's office spearheading privatization of Winnipeg's services to its citizens to the point now where ratepayers and taxpayers as citizens are going to be little more than clients of a corporatized and privatized city where they are going to be little than feedstock to the profiteering of corporate bandits, raiders and elite city families of prey. There is a war going to happen in the 2010 elections where fireworks not seen from long gone Mayor Juba's time are going to rise to take back the city, a city Mayor Katz and his cronnies no one want to share with anyone else least of all anyone who should dare think that they are a citizen of Winnipeg as opposed to a Katz preferred client who needs their pocket picked for the special interests he represents.
*Coming soon! The Winnipeg Airport Turnover Fiasco. Canadian Citizens & Taxpayers lulled into sleep by the politicos and the media! Yes, your federal government paid off handsomely to a wealthy Winnipeg family with your taxpayer paid for airport given to them for one dollar? (free) and having no one know or figure it out was the biggest part of the game. See how they succeeded in screwing the citizenry en masse! (This one is entertaining and exposing it got me kicked off so many public discussion websites I stopped counting!)
Such was the case of the Office of the Ombudsman for the City of Winnipeg. Citizens needed open and transparent government and having a citizen's Ombudsman was the way to do it. What it meant was that all core services of the city could be looked at from the perspective of an aggrieved citizen. The process was never meant to take away relationships and open doors citizens had with the elected from wards city counsellors, it complimented it and it was working and resolving citizens problems that needed more scruitiny than a city councillor could give it. It made the city bureacracy accountable and that is where the moves started to get rid of it.
To get rid of it the city bureacracy had to convince counsellors that the Ombudsman'e office was too strong and not in their best interests. To get their way bureacrats went out of their way to play politics of their own brand to destroy the relationships within the bureacracy and in particular with the relationships between the Ombudsman and the city counsellors. The other things that the Ombudsman office brought frightening scary nights to was the exposing of the the cosy relationships many city contractors and business bidders had with city administrations bureacracies. In these types of relationships who you knew got you places and money where what you knew did not count. This is the place where special future considerations and kickbacks reinned supreme. You know like, delivering less gravel gave the business the same money for years. BBQs turning up with bowes on the backdoor, parties with lots of free food, drink and complimentary bottles. Those ways of doing business!
The City of Winnipeg's Ombudsmans office was getting close to of all things was "city graft and corruption centers" and it ran the gammut of all city departments and services scaring everyone doing anything wrong to such a degree so that is there was a Winnipeg Police Service conspiracy led by former Chief of Police Jack Ewatcki and Counsellor Steek to get rid of then Mayor Glenn Murray. To adde to that they targetted his open ***ness so openly and at every turn it turned into a hounding of major proportions human rights advocates like lawyer David Matas should have been howling but none of that happened so Katz did instead. Everyone notices under self professed part time Mayor Sam Katz aka the Goldeyes ball club owner, his other part time job, there developed a huge push to privatize city core services as well as spin off services. That is to preserve and to expand the take of taxpayers already fully taxed disposable income dollars out of the city as their profits for their businesses where a city is supposed to provide services at cost for its citizens no matter what they are with indifference to the differences to ratepayers all being treated with great equality.
Clearly to accomplish all this for Mayor Katz and his connections and the city administration and bureacratic politics going on city council had to do away with the Winnipeg Ombudsman and clearly with enough votes the mayor and his clique of hand picked councillors accomplished just that. With much appologistic fanfare you could only find spun by Winnipeg's stitled right wing corporate media with a sweet deal of future considerations from the very gone right wing Doer NDP Government who are also joined at with the same connections joined at the hip with the same bunch Mayor Katz that the Office of the Ombudsman Winnipeg would join and murge with the odious Manitoba Office of the Ombudsman with the reputation of being nothing but goernment window dressing and in that abyss Ombudsman Winnipeg disappeared never to be heard from again.
Unfettered by open and transparent government anymore it has been full steam ahead of the Mayor's office spearheading privatization of Winnipeg's services to its citizens to the point now where ratepayers and taxpayers as citizens are going to be little more than clients of a corporatized and privatized city where they are going to be little than feedstock to the profiteering of corporate bandits, raiders and elite city families of prey. There is a war going to happen in the 2010 elections where fireworks not seen from long gone Mayor Juba's time are going to rise to take back the city, a city Mayor Katz and his cronnies no one want to share with anyone else least of all anyone who should dare think that they are a citizen of Winnipeg as opposed to a Katz preferred client who needs their pocket picked for the special interests he represents.
*Coming soon! The Winnipeg Airport Turnover Fiasco. Canadian Citizens & Taxpayers lulled into sleep by the politicos and the media! Yes, your federal government paid off handsomely to a wealthy Winnipeg family with your taxpayer paid for airport given to them for one dollar? (free) and having no one know or figure it out was the biggest part of the game. See how they succeeded in screwing the citizenry en masse! (This one is entertaining and exposing it got me kicked off so many public discussion websites I stopped counting!)