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General Discussion => Other Discussions => Humour and Jokes => Topic started by: Sorunome on July 22, 2013, 04:56:06 am
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http://edition.cnn.com/2012/07/17/us/alaska-cat-mayor
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TL;DR
Though that's pretty funny : "He doesn't raise our taxes -- we have no sales tax. He doesn't interfere with business. He's honest." XD
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Stubbs for President 2016?
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There's no way to beat Montreal and Glendale mayors for weirdness.
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lol "he is guilty of frequently sleeping on the job" :P
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My grandfather was mayor of their town back in the day.
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Really?
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There's no way to beat Montreal and Glendale mayors for weirdness.
Montréal should have a cat for mayor too.
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Also my cities Football team won the nation-wide championship here a few years ago and they made the captain mayor of the town for a week.
The thing is .... the football team are the Geelong CATS!
Connection?
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There's no way to beat Montreal and Glendale mayors for weirdness.
What's that mayor like? :)
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There's no way to beat Montreal and Glendale mayors for weirdness.
What's that mayor like? :)
In Montreal's case, the second last mayor was arrested for corruption with the mafia, then a new one was temporarily elected until the next elections, only to be arrested for the same thing as well. I wouldn't be surprised if the current one suffered the same fate too because it's just out of control now. >.<
In Glendale's case, they are almost all senile it seems. There were people watching the city councils or attending them during the whole hockey team fiasco and they seemed to have absolutely no clue what they are doing and most are like 90 years old. I guess there's just nobody younger that is interested in politics there, so I can't really blame them if it's due to their age. >.< But it was kinda sad to watch because the way they oppose to suspicious deals and stuff, it's almost like if I always left my appartment door open with my wallet right there on a table, full of money, without bothering to check, and that with the next power/internet/rent bills arriving soon.
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Also note that the mayor of Laval, Montréal's neighbor, also got arrested for corruption. Just to say it's really out of control in western Québec. And the mayor of Québec is still as popular as he always was.
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Although if it really got worse in Montreal (to the point where it's dangerous for citizens), it could lead to many people leaving then the city slowly becoming Detroit II.
That said, even with a good mayor that won't let himself be controlled by mafia, bureaucracy or such stuff, it can also have adverse effects, since some people will feel like he acts a bit like a dictator and some others might not like the noise from the extra events he brought to the city. If you check recent census estimates, apparently Quebec City population barely increases anymore (like 0.5% ish in 2012) and in Old Quebec it even declined in recent years. I doubt it can be as bad as in a dangerous cities where citizens are in constant danger of getting beaten down, though.
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Reminds me of an article I read the other day, mayors are better represented in the media than before. Just for instance in Québec, the two last mayors of Montréal and the last mayor of Laval being arrested for corruption (I think they have serious issues with this), the mayor of Huntingdon being controversial as usual (you know, the genre of mayor Fox News would regularly invite as panelist), the mayor of Toronto (Ontario) being convinced of addiction, the mayor of Québec City bringing lots of international events and trying to get the NHL back in his town and the mayor of Lac-Mégantic being a role model after the major disaster that badly decimated her town.
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http://usnews.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/08/05/19877670-four-year-old-boy-gets-reelected-as-small-town-minnesota-mayor?lite
Link related, thought this was pretty funny. :P
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Lol nice, although I wouldn't want him to run a larger town or village. :P
Also one story I remember was how Jean Chrétien sent checks to dead people in 2000 or so and I believe a few years later someone's dog or cat over here received a check from Quebec Government too. It isn't really mayor-related, but still politic stuff. :P