TwoDogs_39
Active Member
loved this quote from Smitherman in the article!: “I don’t know who Forum Research is, maybe that is Rocco’s new polling company,†Smitherman said. “I haven’t met anybody putting up their hand saying they want more politics. This notion of recall is about the perpetual election cycle, it’s California politics brought to Ontario and Toronto and it hasn’t worked very well there.â€
and he's right, the recall thing could easily get out of hand and cause chaos in city government. If anybody does anything really bad, there is always the legal system to deal with it...
I agree with you!! I think 4 years is not a hell of a lot of time to implement new policies or change much in a city. If we have elections every 2 years then councilors will never have the balls to step up and make the tough (but good) decisions, since they'll fear being ousted out of office prematurely. It's another one of Rossi's silly ideas (this, along with the selling-off of valuable assets...). If you don't like an elected official, vote them out of office after 4 years. But give them the chance go make an impact.