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Originally Posted by The Yen Man
As someone already clearly pointed out in this thread, the firm flew him over to Toronto to give a speech at their sponsored event. Why wouldn't they be paying for his airfare? It's just that Nenshi thought to kill two birds with one stone by also promoting Calgary while he was there, hence saving the tax payers a bit of money. Nenshi should have just done it like all the other mayors and just flew first class on taxpayer's money and expensed everything to his spending account. At least then he wouldn't get so much grief over it.
This is nothing more than political grandstanding, and Lowe and CDU both know it. I guess with Nenshi coming in the scene, the gravy train stops, and useless polticians who are used to kickbacks and luxuries at the taxpayers expense now have all their moves scrutinized, so they hate him for it. They're just throwing whatever they can towards Nenshi and hopes anything sticks.
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Too bad the membership of their respective Wards couldn't organize and demand another vote. Their behavior is pathetic.