Comments on: Elton John ticket row in Northern Ontario

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Sun, 02 Mar 2008 20:16:39 +0000

Probably wasn’t too hard to get people to give them back. “This is an Elton John concert.” “Oh! Oops. I thought it was someone good. Here you go.”

By: Richard

Richard — Sun, 02 Mar 2008 04:00:06 +0000

Under usual circumstances this is pretty normal stuff… the politicos, and the moneyed well connected elite who live up on Snob Hill; these are the people who normally score tickets from their comfy wing-back sofas, Chivas in one hand, and with little more than a phone call to the “right people” they generally score however many tickets they need to whatever event they want to attend.

This, while the rest of you common plebeians freeze your collective a$$es off standing in line for hours, if not days.

It’s all about old money, power, connections and privilege in our elitist society. Normally there are quite a few “perks” that go with holding public office…everything from the free rubber chicken service club luncheons to those week-long “fact finding” conference retreats at a some 5 star resort hotel… of course all paid for by you and I. It goes with the territory. Don’t forget that most politicos are generally type A ego driven “community leaders”; the movers and shakers of your local business elite who consider their unfettered access to such events a forgone conclusion.

If you don’t like how they operate, quit voting them in based on the number of lawn signs they can afford to scatter across the community come election time.

Richard

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Sat, 01 Mar 2008 21:11:15 +0000

Good question. I would think that probably they got a pool of tickets to resell to the other councillors and over estimated how many would take them up on it. Of course the real question what has been outlined. Where did the money come from? On the face of it is the possibility that it came from public funds. Could be that isn’t the case but then the article doesn’t really lay that out.

If it came out of an individual’s pockets or from an interoffice pool from the employees, then there is nothing wrong with this beyond appearance. If it came from the taxpayers, they should be having someones a$$ over it.

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Sat, 01 Mar 2008 20:58:37 +0000

Likely the taxpayers, but we don’t know for sure.

By: jack

jack — Sat, 01 Mar 2008 16:56:53 +0000

Just out of curiosity, whose money paid for those tickets, the councilers or the taxpayers?