To Make Things Intersting

With the closing of nominations we suggest the following
(please spare us the "this is bad for democracy argument"; we understand)

Mayor's Race- Bob CHIARELLI should drop out, leaving a race between MUNTER and O'BRIEN (Left Vs. Right)

Ward 7- Sherril NOBLE should bow out and endorse KILREA ( A CULLEN defeat is good for the whole city)

Ward 15- Bye Bye LUDINGTON, endorsement to LEADMAN (Though she can win without it)

Ward 22- Andy HAYDON you've done your civic duty for the residents of Ottawa and it's clear that the passion to win is just not there, take a pass and endorse LAMOUREUX
(Let the two other Liberal frontrunners fight amongst themselves)

Where Are We?

OK a few things;

#1- The O'BRIEN idea to put a sign/introduction sheet in each daily across the region-genius-we love it. Although we still aren't sure if this guy is ready to lead the city.

#2- Isn't it time for another poll showing where the race for Mayor is heading?

We suspect that when one is published publicly it will indiacte this;

CHIARELLI- Support also the same (21-23%)
MUNTER- Support the same (23-25%)
O'BRIEN- Up significantly (19-20%)

So who's going to be victorious? As we stated some time ago, it's a two person race.

And the one on top doesn't always end up being the winner.

Sound Familiar

Listen to this.

Sound familiar?

Sure does-Stand up for Canada, Stand up for Change, (musical strum)

Ahhh there you go-another attempt to be a Conservative.

Lame Duck

Why would you declare with only a month and half to go before election day that you will not seek re-election in 2010?

Whoever is giving Mayor BOB advice needs a reality check.

This message tells voters to give him one more chance out of the goodness of their hearts. It sort of says " if you give me this one I promise I won't ask for another."

Bad, no terrible, no an absurd campaign move by Team BOB.

A mistake that may have cost him this election.

Alex Finally Gets Served

KILREA uncovered it, we had seen it for quite sometime.

It appears that this Alex broke the rules.

In all honesty we admit that everyone can make a mistake.

But isn't it sort of ironic that the councillor who is always first out of the gate to pounce on any of his fellow councillors character he calls into question is now under investigation by The Chief Electoral Officer?

In the end we hope that Shane KENNEDY finds that CULLEN has violated The Municipal Elections Act and is forced to withdraw his candidacy.

That would be the sweetest revenge for everyone who has been forced to listen to his endless chatter over these past six years.

Someone Should Pass This Along To Munter

Election Sign Restrictions - Public Property
City of Ottawa Road Allowance
Signage By-law
City of Ottawa By-law 2003-520, as amended

1.No person shall place an election sign on a highway other than on an inner boulevard, provided that the sign is not placed more than 60 days immediately preceding the election date,

2.No sign is placed within 50 centimetres of a sidewalk, or where there is no sidewalk, within 2 metres of the roadway or within 50 centimetres of the edge of a shoulder where such exists.

3.The sign and its components are removed within 48 hours following the election date.

4.Dimension requirements do not apply to an election sign.

Driving around this city we notice several of MUNTER's signage impeding the view of motorists. Perhaps someone should bring this to the attention of Alex, don't you think Darren? Now who can't follow the law?

The Temp. Faces A Challenge

Thank you to Mr. Dennis VOWLES for publicly running to replace one of the most embarrassing and politically propped up city councillors around the table.

Our cheque is in the mail.

Hopefully, residents in the East end of the city can make up for the mistake that they made a little over nine months ago.

Did we mention he is related to former well respected Gloucester City Councillor Ken VOWLES?

This Is My Tough Pose

Want a good laugh, take a look at these totally scripted poses on the updated MUNTER site.

We're quite partial to the arms by your side look. Tough, real tough.

We also appreciate this Alex quote; "Because we can't afford the status quo until 2011."

No Alex, this city cannot afford you-despite your PR campaign to hide your left-wing agenda.

Need a few more chuckles? Check this out. Quite amateurish.

No Way

A major union endorsed MUNTER over his competition?

THIS IS A SHOCK!

Really.

We can't believe it.

Remember how the Liberal Party of Canada tried to persuade the public that Stephen Harper had a hidden agenda?

MUNTER and his left wing idealogue group of unions and special interests may be the real "Hidden Agenda" Deal.

People, you need to seriously consider what this city will look like with Alex MUNTER as Mayor.

In case you need to know here is your list of NDP candidates for November 2006. Vote wisely.

Bugged?

Councillor Rainer BLOESS and the "East-block" of council have an ingenious idea to eradicate mosquitoes and black fly larvae.

Do these people think before they speak?

Remember that little thing called an ecosystem; you know where a bird eats a mosquitoe, then the bird is eaten by a fox, yadda yadda yadda and eventually there is food on your table.

The whole idea stinks of election year rhetoric with no true thought.

Two Responses

So we sent all the three major campaigns for Mayor a letter inquiring about the LRT position letter sent by Mayor Bob. We requested a copy from each campaign with the intent of posting them here-for you to read-.

Mayor Bob's team gave us the goods, MUNTER's camp gave us another bitchy-self fulfilling press release and well as usual O'BRIEN is no-where to be found. So here they are, read them at your leisure:

Mayor BOB

Bob Chiarelli for Mayor Re-election Campaign 2006
340 McLeod St., Suite # 306, Ottawa ON, K2P 1A4

Open letter to mayoralty candidates – Larry O’Brien and Alex Munter

Dear Alex and Larry,
As you know Ottawa City Council voted 14 - 7 on July 12th (18-4 to extend the route to Barrhaven) in favour of extending LRT service from Downtown to Barrhaven for a fixed price contract.

The City was authorized to enter into the contract with the preferred proponent, Siemens- PCL/Dufferin.

An independent Fairness Commissioner was engaged specifically to ensure the City of Ottawa adhered to a vigorous and fair competition and the Memorandum of Understanding signed by the City, the Province and the Federal government required a competitive process.

The contract authorized by City Council, after eight years of debate and decision-making was signed by the City and the proponent on September 15, 2006, and was done so
within the specific time frame to avoid extensive price escalation in the tens of millions of dollars.

Each of you has expressed various versions of options to cancel or defer the Downtown to Barrahaven route. This also would cost the City huge penalties.

With respect to the procurement process, Mr. Buzz Hargrove, President of the Canadian Autoworkers Union severely criticized the competitive bid process used by City Council and advocated that the contract be awarded to Bombardier without competition.

Alex, I understand you support the position of Mr. Hargrove and the Canadian Autoworkers Union. Larry, I don’t believe you have expressed an opinion on this aspect.

In that context, I’m attaching an article from last Saturday’s Sept 16th Globe and Mail edition (“Subway deal could cost TTC millions in federal funding”) because of Toronto City Council’s decision to sole source a $674 million contract to Bombardier. Alex it’s clear that sole sourcing the light rail contract would have put at risk hundreds of millions of dollars in federal and provincial transit funding.

Here are some of the facts you and others have not shared with the public:

The Siemens-PLC/Dufferin bid represent 85 % Canadian content and more than 80% of the jobs will be awarded to local Ottawa or Ontario workers. Siemens also employs 7,200 workers in Canada, of which 1700 are members of the CAW in Ontario.

PCL is Canada’s largest general contracting firm with over 2,000 Canadian employees and over 4,000 tradespersons. It is also recognized as one of Canada’s Top 100 employers every year since 2000.

Less than 5% of the cost of the LRT project is supported by property taxes, with over 95% supported by Federal and Provincial infrastructure grants, gas tax rebates which must be invested in transit, and transit development changes.

To conclude, I know the procurement process used for the light rail expansion project protected our taxpayers.

Alex and Larry, I believe taxpayers want to hear directly from both of you on whether you will look ahead with me to concentrate on the East-West project and stop the election campaign talk about cancelling a project approved by Council and signed to proceed.

Instead of pursuing a position that will put our taxpayers at legal and financial risk, I would ask both of you to join me in the planning of the next phase of light rail expansion from Kanata to Orleans as an urgent priority.

Sincerely,
Bob Chiarelli


MUNTER

Munter urges expensive field purchase be scrapped
“The future needs energy. Not a pile of bills left by Bob Chiarelli”: Alex Munter

(Ottawa, ON) – Mayoral candidate Alex Munter today called on city council to block the $3.4-million purchase of a field. The latest cost over-run for light rail is being hastily pushed through fewer than two months before a new city council is elected.

“Buying a field won’t help families in Kanata or Orleans spend more time together, and less time in traffic,” said Munter. “Trains don’t run on fields, they run on tracks. But instead of using the trains we have on the tracks we have, Bob Chiarelli is determined to leave behind more bills. All to give the illusion that he’s moving on east-west rail links.

“This is the wrong decision at the wrong time. It won’t bring the east-west service that families in Kanata and Orleans deserve, and Bob Chiarelli’s had his chance,” he said. “It’s not good enough, and Ottawa deserves better. This week, I’ll be outlining how we can take on the future with a plan that helps Ottawa make up lost ground.”

Munter is a long-time supporter of light rail, and the vital east-west link that helps build a greener Ottawa. As a councillor, he voted in favour of council’s decision in 2003. Unfortunately, the current Chiarelli plan – released in June, three years after council voted – is a far cry from council’s decision.

“We don’t need a mayor who spends first and asks questions later,” said Munter. “And on November 13, citizens will elect a mayor for the next four years. There’s no reason for Bob Chiarelli to rush to make up for lost time. There’s a better way than Mr. Chiarelli’s status quo or Larry O’Brien’s nixing light rail. We can fix it, and should.”

He again outlined his solutions to fix the light rail plan, and bring service to families in Kanata and Orleans:

Stop tying the hands of the next mayor and council at the last-minute.
Bringing the trains to Bronson Avenue, and fixing the problem downtown.
Using the flexibility that council has to bring east-west rail sooner.
A moratorium on all light rail purchasing until after the election.

Munter noted transport experts such as Transport 2000 have also raised concerns about Chiarelli’s plan, which makes east-west travel times longer. He is the only candidate for mayor to outline a viable plan for east-west service, and an Ottawa Citizen Decima poll showed more residents preferred Munter’s plan to Chiarelli’s.

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We like the fact that MUNTER continues to pander to Orléans and Kanata families.

Furthermore, note the reference to an Ottawa Citizen poll; the guy isn't even elected yet and is already relying on public opinion polls to make decisions....

O'BRIEN

Anytime you want to send your response and enter into the debate; thehallmonitor06@gmail.com

Running Low on Funds?

Looking at the Alex MUNTER signage up around the city we are beginning to question the financial stability of his campaign.

One nice wind storm and those suckers on flimsy steel are long gone.

Another Whining Alex

Mayor BOB doesn't like me and said that he wanted me off council (or something like that).

What to do?

Call CTV Ottawa and get GREENWALL on the story.

How to make the point?

His signs look like BOB's and he's ummm running against me.

That is not a set-up Alex, that is called democracy. And hopefully Bay Ward residents exercise their right and retire you from Ottawa city council.

Enough with the whiny Alex's please, it's only September.

What Are You Hiding?

OK so Mayor BOB isn't ready to fully disclose his list of campaign donors; but in all reality his last two campaigns for Mayor and his subsequent financial backers are all available in the public domain.

Furthermore, Mayor BOB has never taken the firm public stance against accepting donations from the development industry like his pest of an opponent has.

The fact that Alex MUNTER, the man who claims to be the most transparent thing to hit politics since the invention of Teflon, will not release who is financially backing him is what we take issue with.

MUNTER has played the holier than thou card already in this election in claiming that he does not accept donations from organizations/individuals that may present a "conflict of interest" should he be elected to public office.

For this reason we call on all candidates and especially MUNTER to release their lists of donors prior to the Nov.13th vote.

We seriously do not buy this bullshit from both camps that it would be a competitive disadvantage to do so.

Who Wears A Suit...

....to install a lawn sign?

Scripted, and as always showing off his pearly whites is our buddy from Ward 22, Smilin' Steve.

Notice who is with him-a former Canadian Alliance MP-

We always thought that hardcore Liberal's like S.S. hated those guys.

Must be a covert attempt to cover that party affiliation up.

Ugly

We thought that MUNTER would have more style-sense.

The color combination is a definite fashion faux-pas.

His signs are downright horrid.

Is this his attempt at beautifying the city?

We're still waiting to get a look at O'BRIEN's signage....but as with the majority of his campaign, he's late in getting this done as well.

The Winner

Mayor BOB wins the sign campaign hands down.

From one end of the city to the other, his signs are the sole inhabitants of busy street corners.

This shows organization, a key to success that one mayoral candidate seems to be lacking more and more everyday (and it's not MUNTER).

Boring Night 2

Place: RA Center

Topic: Homelessness In Ottawa

Attendees: All The Left Wing-Social-Communist-Poverty-Industry Members of Ottawa

Attendees Idol: Alex MUNTER

Result: Less sheep to count before retiring for the night

The more we hear from Alex, the more we worry about what this city will look like if he actually gets elected.

Any Lights On?

Peggy FELTMATE needs to check if the lights are on upstairs.

Watching her almost break down in tears over street lighting proves that she, like a number of street lights in her ward need to be replaced.

WOW! It's stupid season down at 110 Laurier.

Au Revoir Shawn

Shawn LITTLE announced what we suspect a large portion of his ward has wished for years ago....he will not seek re-election this year.

With Shawn out of the picture, Kitchissippi becomes an increasingly interesting ward to watch. We believe it will be a race between the far left and the more business oriented candidates.

We're more inclined to believe that LEADMAN would be a better option for Kitchissippi residents.

Sept 12th Mayoral Debate

Boring.

Wireless Internet all across the city?

Are you serious?

Really?

Tonight's on the homeless situation in Ottawa should be lively. Alex MUNTER will be in paradise.

Notice The Similarities?

Despite all the whining and political grandstanding by Alex MUNTER, one would be hard pressed to argue that this has any resemblance to this.

Ward 22

HAYDON in.....McKENNEY most likely out.

HAYDON in.....as councillor, hopefully. We hope his smile is on par with smilin' Steve (the guy is quite photogenic)

As an aside, Thursday candidates can start to litter the public streets with election signage. .

Go join a campaign!

Up To The Challenge?

As a public service announcement we remind potential candidates that the closing bell for nominations in this years municipal election is Sept. 29th. The following incumbent councillors are lacking competitors and we believe need at least one to make sure that democracy is well served.

Ward 1- Temp. Councillor MONETTE (4 more years of this guy-are you serious?)

Ward 2- BLOESS

Ward 8- Little CHIARELLI
(his only opponent has dropped off the ballot to work for Larry O's campaign)

Ward 10- DEANS

As an aside, we hear that the race in Ward 22 may lose a candidate with Andy Haydon's candidacy.

McGUINTY As Your Mentor?

Taken from Alex Munter's Press Release, 08 Sept. 2006;
Munter Would Ban City Advertising During Campaign Period

Premier Dalton McGuinty also enacted sweeping restrictions on politically-tinged advertising in Ontario, in response to public concern over the advertising practices of the previous government.

So the next Mayor of Ottawa is basing policy on those enacted by one of the most failed political figures in modern day history. Good start, we're sure your McGUINTY-friendly stance will win you some more votes.

Furthermore, MUNTER does himself even more of a disservice by using Premier DALTO as an example of integrity.

Even though DALTO stated that he would never use public dollars for political messaging, one need only look at any schoolyard in this province and witness a huge Liberal red billboard advising them of their tax dollars at work.

Or maybe, take a drive down the 417 and look at the red signs advertising the road improvements made possible by your Liberal buddies at Queen's Park.

The bottom line is it's all window-dressing, legislation get's enacted and elected officials find away to get around it.

We doubt that MUNTER would be much different.

What's The Plan Larry

As far as we're concerned today is make or break for the Larry O'BRIEN campaign.

At 2pm today O'BRIEN will enlighten voters as to what his plan for the city are.

If it has substance, he might win. If it is filled with recycled ideas, he will lose.

A New Challenge For Our Buddy Steve

The self declared incumbent of Ward 22 will be defeated in Nov. 2006 if Andrew HAYDON enters into the race for council. City council's chambers are afterall named after him.

Unlike the perceived front runner Steve DESROCHES, Mr. HAYDON actually has political knowledge which goes beyond Steve's experience of smiling for any available camera.

Steve 1

Steve 2

Steve 3

Steve 4

Steve 5

How can we give the guy any credit, unlike his competitors he wouldn't even respond to our open e-mail.

What A Pest

Alex MUNTER is turning out to be quite the little whiner in this year's municipal contest.

His latest bitching is that Mayor BOB and The LRT PR campaign share the same slogan; "On The Move". Wow, is this guy seriously making an issue out of this?

The real twist to the story is that for the ordinary resident (voter) they would never put the two together. Trying to find this slogan on each seperate website is a project in itself.

Alex MUNTER's immaturity once again proves that he is not ready to be the Mayor of Ottawa.

We challenge Alex's people (we know you read us) to send us the links which show this great lapse in integrity.

thehallmonitor06@gmail.com

March Away

Wow....The annual Labour Day March in Ottawa isn't usually filled with so much excitement. But add a dash of MUNTER and a helping of Mayor BOB and you get a tasty dish. Both marched (even though we believe MUNTER is a more seasoned veteran at marching, given his participation in many left wing guided protests) and both exchanged verbal jabs over the bidding process for the O-Train.

MUNTER is clearly pandering to the special interests of our buddy CAW chair Buzz " talk first think later" HARGROVE in stating that the bidding process was flawed.

We side with Mayor BOB and council on this one, the contract was awarded to the company which best met the needs of the proposal. MUNTER's unrelenting idea that a certain Canadian company should have been given the contract for the sole reason it is Canadian is a fine example of how a MUNTER mayoralty will function.

That being with little common sense but lots of special interest input.

Sit This One Out

Brian McGARRY should use his common sense and sit this one out. Waiting to see if the O'BRIEN campaign is legitimate or not is a strategy for a losing result.

Yes, we understand that McGARRY like a couple of other thousands are pissed off at Terry KILREA's sideshow circus of this week, but impulsive actions such as entering a race for mayor in September are not going to solve anything.

You've Got To Be Kidding....

Anyone who had the least bit of doubt that KILREA and Mayor BOB struck a deal need to look no further than Terry's new website....The color scheme is remarkably similar to Bob's campaign signage.

Politicking at it's very best.

The Gong Show Continues

The "Terry KILREA Alienation 2006 Tour" continues with his declared candidacy in Bay Ward.

For those of you still paying attention; as far as we are concerned KILREA is a political nobody since his shenanigans of Wednesday.