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...full 60 percent of those casting ballots voted to rescind the council's $10 fee hike, which was passed in March. Just 40 percent wanted to uphold the council decision...
...often treated as a kind of bumbling equerry. At the end of the first day of negotiations for a new constitution in 1991, Mandela gave De Klerk a withering dressing down: "Even the head of an illegitimate, discredited minority regime, as his is, has certain moral standards to uphold." His wrath is cold, not hot; he does not explode at his foes, he freezes them...
...official administrator of the recent illegitimate referendum, which included council members tabling in their own houses, ballots being left unsecured and voters not being verified as they voted--all violations of proper election procedure. Despite the obvious improprieties, Liston voted two weeks, ago, along with 21 other members, to uphold the results of the woefully flawed election...
...council has a duty to uphold its own bylaws. And the failure to recall Liston last Sunday indicates that most members of the council lack even a basic respect for their own constitution...
McGuire claims to uphold "rational argument," yet his polemics rely on incendiary rhetoric and false evidence coupled with a refusal to engage the larger issues he attacks. "What is `empowerment," he asks, "but a code word for...the celebration of `liberated mothers' and their bastard children...