Mayoralty candidate Lisa Robinson should ride out to the Calgary Stampede to help the horsemen with seriously injured horses. She is very experienced at beating a dead horse.
In support
Robinson may have had a case long ago that she was being unfairly treated by Pickering Council which ultimately led to her suspension from the position and loss of councillor salary. Her position may have been tenable at that time and many supporters would have taken this stand. Regrettably, she suffered the consequences of her position with Council to her councillor statues and her income.
The FULL VERSION is a lengthy defense, 19 pages released by Robinson fully explaining her position in relation to the whole issue. It is a demanding read but a comprehensive statement. In many instances she presents a case that many voters may support. Nevertheless, the bureaucratic powers that be have ruled against her and there likely is not appeals court for the occurence. Given that likelihood, Robinson should stop beating the dead horse.
The mayoralty candidate may be looking at the whole situation with different eyes. She sees an injustice here, unjust treatment and some kind of bias against her. This could be true but unfortunately bureaucracy may work the a MLB umpire. They make the call. A strike is a strike if the umpire calls it that way. However, in MLB at this uppermost level, they have a review system, the ABS, which permits the batter, the injured party, to ask for a review and the call is reassessed. Justice is served whether the call remains or is reversed. In bureaucratic circles like City Hall politics, there is no such process of review. The Integrity Commissioner makes the call and it stands, FULL STOP. This situation may need review as if the call is wrong, there is no way to review it and have it re-evaluated. This may not be justice.
In opposition
The political umpire’s call is final but should it be? Could there be some merit in Robinson’s claims? Could Mayor Ashe have some issues with hearing her out fully as the smokes drifts out of his ears in anger? Could some of Robinson’s views have justification when society if considered fully ? The may be need for a neutral or objective party, a court, to step in and give the whole situation better analsysis, review and evaluation. The Council needs some sort of ABS system, perhaps a team of judges, political retirees?
No matter which system of review is used, it has humans in it, not neutral, objective and arbitrary as technologically based ABS. Inevitably, humans have biases, prejudices and favoured slants. So any system using humans is subject to error. Perhaps Artificial Intelligence could be put to use here. At least it is non-human…but totally neutral may be questionable given that its training is done by human engineers. But it may be more neutral than a human Integrity Commissioner.
The bottom line though is a decision was reached and made final. Questioning it again has no merit, no benefit and no value. Robinson should accept the final position and move on. Her election persona suffers by her cotinuing to beat a dead horse.
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