{"id":379,"date":"2007-01-30T17:46:00","date_gmt":"2007-01-31T00:46:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jameswbreckenridge.ca\/breckenridge\/?p=379"},"modified":"2008-10-26T04:20:06","modified_gmt":"2008-10-26T11:20:06","slug":"re-hope-they-paid-own-way-regina-dalton","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jameswbreckenridge.ca\/?p=379","title":{"rendered":"Re: Hope they paid own way &#8211; Regina Dalton"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tsk, Tsk, Tsk. Regina, why would you be surprised by Abbotsford City Hall happily squandering a few thousand dollars on a pointless trip to enjoy the ECHL all-star festivities? Having demonstrated their willingness and ability to cost taxpayers millions, a few thousand more is just chump change \u2013 with taxpayers as the chumps paying the bills.<\/p>\n<p>Your time might better be spent putting together a primer on how to use that new-fangled, ultramodern communications device the telephone. It seems that nobody at Abbotsford City Hall knows how to use a telephone. Otherwise they could have called the ECHL offices and gotten all the information about local ownership and the one month timeframe at the cost of a few dollars on the long distance phone bill.<\/p>\n<p>Admittedly, while an efficient method of finding out the needed information, a phone call isn\u2019t nearly as much fun as a boondoggle \u2026 I mean fact-finding trip on the taxpayer\u2019s tab. Which brings up the question of exactly how many trips were made and at what cost for other fact-finding taxpayer funded vacations on or for Plan A?<\/p>\n<p>No doubt the ECHL management was suitably impressed by representatives of Abbotsford City Hall arriving unprepared, having failed to have done their homework on the ECHL management, ownership and franchise requirements\/structure. They were undoubtedly as impressed with Abbotsford City Hall as I and a growing number of other taxpayers are.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tsk, Tsk, Tsk. Regina, why would you be surprised by Abbotsford City Hall happily squandering a few thousand dollars on a pointless trip to enjoy the ECHL all-star festivities? Having demonstrated their willingness and ability to cost taxpayers millions, a few thousand more is just chump change \u2013 with taxpayers as the chumps paying the bills. Your time might better be spent putting together a primer on how to use that new-fangled, ultramodern communications device the telephone. It seems that nobody at Abbotsford City Hall knows how to use a telephone. Otherwise they could have called the ECHL offices and gotten all the information about local ownership and the one month timeframe at the cost of a few dollars on the long distance phone bill. Admittedly, while an efficient method of finding out the needed information, a phone call isn\u2019t nearly as much fun as a boondoggle \u2026 I mean fact-finding trip on the taxpayer\u2019s tab. Which brings up the question of exactly how many trips were made and at what cost for other fact-finding taxpayer funded vacations on or for Plan A? No doubt the ECHL management was suitably impressed by representatives of Abbotsford City Hall arriving unprepared, having failed to have done their homework on the ECHL management, ownership and franchise requirements\/structure. 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