Wednesday, May 30, 2007

Controversy, what every blogger dreams of.

Having your blog mentioned by name as some kind of unscrupulous appendage that seeks to wreak havoc on the community, ah tis the thing of a million hits.

A Windsor, Ontario councillor is in the spotlight in the border city after he presented details of Windsor city council meetings on his blog, the details revolved around negotiations with the Detroit River International Crossing team, about a new border crossing between the Ontario city and Detroit, Michigan.

Coun. Alan Halberstadt is the guy under attack, as one of his fellow councillors, Coun. Ken Lewenza Jr., claims that his blog, is undermining the city's official position by suggesting that a compromise plan could be worked out rather than the hard and fast plans for a tunnel by the Windsor council.

It would seem that the Windsor City council is a rather secretive group that don't like to talk too much in public, something that they seem to have in common with many city councils that we can think of. Must be a secret oath that they all take or something, like Barney and Fred would take at the old Loyal Order of Water Buffaloes lodge meetings just without the fancy hats.

Things got rather testy in the last Windsor city council meeting, so heated in fact that Laberstadt decided to walk away for a while to cool down after the accusations, most likely he just wanted to go check his site meter.

Thanks to Lewenza he's probably raking in the hits.

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