{"id":391,"date":"2007-05-14T00:33:00","date_gmt":"2007-05-14T07:33:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jameswbreckenridge.ca\/breckenridge\/?p=391"},"modified":"2008-10-26T00:22:35","modified_gmt":"2008-10-26T07:22:35","slug":"secret-payments-is-that-not-a","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jameswbreckenridge.ca\/?p=391","title":{"rendered":"Secret Payments? Is that not a &#8230;."},"content":{"rendered":"<div><span style=\"font-family: arial;\">Out of their own mouths \u2026 the words of Abbotsford city staff and council as reported in The Post of May 11th, 2007:<\/p>\n<p>\u2026\u2026\u2026\u201cWhere did the $60,000 for advertising come from?\u201d she (Elizabeth Gray) demand.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/bp2.blogger.com\/_uJNT3y4WQ5s\/RkgRfJzwkUI\/AAAAAAAAADo\/4VE5LqWCXtQ\/s1600-h\/bribe1.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5064317007884751170\" style=\"FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand\" src=\"http:\/\/bp2.blogger.com\/_uJNT3y4WQ5s\/RkgRfJzwkUI\/AAAAAAAAADo\/4VE5LqWCXtQ\/s200\/bribe1.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: arial;\">Coun. Bruce Beck responded to Gray saying, \u201cMost of the money spent on advertising for Plan A was not the glitzy ads people saw in the papers it was spent on the legally required notification of polling station location and times.\u201d<\/span><\/div>\n<div>Beck sought support for his statement by asking Dan Botrill, Abbotsford\u2019s director of corporate services; \u201cThe majority of the $40,000 we allocated to advertising for Plan A was, in fact, for statutory advertising wasn\u2019t it?\u201d<\/div>\n<div>Botrill contradicted Beck saying only $15,000 of the $40,000 allocated by the city for advertising was spent on statutory advertising.<\/div>\n<div>Gray then stated, \u201cI\u2019m talking about the $60,000 from private donations.\u201d<\/div>\n<div>Botrill responded, \u201cI know we received some donations. I\u2019m not sure we can make that public. I\u2019ll investigate and get back to you\u201d.<\/div>\n<div>Let us overlook the fact that this exchange between citizen and City Hall shows that City Hall continues to attempt to provide misleading information and to not answering citizens questions (the $60,000 donations) by giving an answer they want ($40,000 of city money), however misleading and untrue that answer may be.<\/div>\n<div>I direct your attention to is City Hall\u2019s continued refusal to provide citizens information on who, what, when, where and why of the $60,000 donated to the Plan A campaign.<\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: arial;\">Are not secret donations made to City Hall by secret contributors, not properly accounted for Bribery?<\/span><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Out of their own mouths \u2026 the words of Abbotsford city staff and council as reported in The Post of May 11th, 2007: \u2026\u2026\u2026\u201cWhere did the $60,000 for advertising come from?\u201d she (Elizabeth Gray) demand. Coun. Bruce Beck responded to Gray saying, \u201cMost of the money spent on advertising for Plan A was not the glitzy ads people saw in the papers it was spent on the legally required notification of polling station location and times.\u201d Beck sought support for his statement by asking Dan Botrill, Abbotsford\u2019s director of corporate services; \u201cThe majority of the $40,000 we allocated to advertising for Plan A was, in fact, for statutory advertising wasn\u2019t it?\u201d Botrill contradicted Beck saying only $15,000 of the $40,000 allocated by the city for advertising was spent on statutory advertising. Gray then stated, \u201cI\u2019m talking about the $60,000 from private donations.\u201d Botrill responded, \u201cI know we received some donations. I\u2019m not sure we can make that public. I\u2019ll investigate and get back to you\u201d. Let us overlook the fact that this exchange between citizen and City Hall shows that City Hall continues to attempt to provide misleading information and to not answering citizens questions (the $60,000 donations) by giving an answer they want ($40,000 of city money), however misleading and untrue that answer may be. I direct your attention to is City Hall\u2019s continued refusal to provide citizens information on who, what, when, where and why of the $60,000 donated to the Plan A campaign. Are not secret donations made to City Hall by secret contributors, not properly accounted for Bribery?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-391","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-municipal"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Secret Payments? Is that not a .... - James W. Breckenridge<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.jameswbreckenridge.ca\/?p=391\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Secret Payments? 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