Dear Editor:
An open letter to Joseph Racinsky, PC candidate for Wellington-Halton Hills and current Ward 2 councillor in Halton Hills.
For some time now I have been following Halton Hills council meetings online and wish to convey to you my profound annoyance with your clearly partisan comments and “declaration of a conflict of interest” at the Jan. 20, Halton Hills council meeting.
I left viewing that meeting with the thought “does he know who he works for and who pays his salary”? On Jan. 20 you had not been nominated by the Progressive Conservatives as their candidate in the upcoming election.
Declaring a conflict of interest about a Halton Hills resolution that requested funding from the province, to alleviate unsustainable infrastructure costs, was simply a conflict in your mind.
Could it be that as you were vying for the PC nomination in Wellington-Halton Hills and you did not want to be seen by your PC handlers as voting in favour of a request for funding from the province? And you did not want the people you really work for, Ward 2 Halton Hills taxpayers, to see you didn’t support them? It is a question of loyalty.
Then, to my increasing annoyance, you proceeded to make a campaign speech expressing dissatisfaction about the Halton Hills budget increases, due in part to ongoing “downloads” from the province … obviously, the place you would rather be.
I have been a 54 year-long resident of Ward 2. We live in one of the top small towns in Canada. You seem happy to starve the Ward 2 residents and by extension the entire town that you took an oath to support.
It is clear that the only conflict is your desire to be a part of the provincial government. So therein lies my question again. Do you know who you work for and who pays your salary? The Town of Halton Hills! It is a simple question of loyalty.
Pam Sheldon,
Halton Hills