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By frank (registered) | Posted February 23, 2010 at 10:29:39

Good point. The reason a councilor or mayor HAS to be a person with vision who can inspire people is twofold. An old proverb goes something like "where people have no vision they live unrestrained". I know that sounds like a good thing but what it means is that they kind of go all over the place, there's no common goal. In a city's case the common goal should be the betterment of the various neighbourhoods in it. If our "leaders" have no vision for those neighbourhoods then they (the leaders and the neighbourhoods) are destined to fail. Other quasi-leaders will come along and take some people in different directions diluting what should be a central focus. The other relates directly to being able to communicate that vision to the people around them... If the leader has a vision but can't communicate that vision to anyone, then not only will the vision not inspire, it will make the leader look like a pie-in-the-sky type of person and cause other people to think they're odd and that would make them loose their seat.

Unfortunately in Hamilton we currently have politicians who play one against the other in hopes of not having to make difficult or unpopular decisions. Politicians who are more interested in lining their friends' pockets than telling them to bide the law and risk making them angry. How can that be fixed?

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