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Originally Posted by Bring_Back_Shantz

There's the big problem.
"Pretty much what she did, in my opinion" after the fact, is a far cry from Druh coming out and saying "We want to have a festival, that's why we're closing the roads". The point is that IF the festival was the reason for the closure and not vice versa, then why didn't she explictly say it in the first place.

Already explained.

It's not a matter of letting the public decide if the road should close, that's still up to council, it's a matter of setting the record straight, so she could avoid all of the negative press and criticism. But for the ammount of flak she was taking, over what was preceived at the time (and still is) as a closure for the sake of a clousre, why didn't it occure to her to expliclty mention a festival?

It's not up to council, also as I've already explained. And IMO, she explained what it was for, the media outlets twisted her words to say that "it was just for fun" or something like that. It appears many people bought in to the media's portrayal. IMO, of course.

or it was a monumental failure on her part to communicate why she wanted to do something that was being highly criticised, or to even promote what you claim she wanted to be some sort of big event for her riding.

My opinion again, of course: It would be a big waste of time for public officials to try and get on the defensive every time the media outlets spun something like this. They'd spend all their time doing that and not doing anything productive. It doesn't really sway people anyway. Smart people try to research the background information, and form a informed decision (as we have all tried to do here), then there's the majority that just believe everything the media tells them anyway.