At one time multi-term Councillor Moscoe seemed to be a people's representative. Something you might expect from an admitted NDP social progressive. However, his latest proposal backed by the Executive Committee (presumably including our ward councillor's approval) would give our elected councillors a one-up over any citizen or organization that would dissent on a councillor's public or publicly important behaviour. That is, he proposes a special legal task force to protect members of council from the people paid for by the people's city imposed taxes.
Such is the behaviour of one who has spent too long in office and seems to validate the argument of incumbency advantage, need for term limits and the increasing democratic deficit in the politics of our city.
Check out this Star editorial slamming this undemocratic proposal, Council's Legal Hit Squad and the reader reaction.
Last August, we had a post on the Sandra Bossin affair. That and the recent Heaps affair seem to be causing Moscoe some angst.
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