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Originally Posted by CaptainCrunch
I guess I would need to ask on his quote about Wenzel never asking for a meeting. Why would he, Nenshi pretty much portrayed him as the enemy during the campaign. You could really portray Nenshi's use of Wenzel as the boogey man as fairly hostile. Neither sides were angels here obviously, but I can see why Wenzel wouldn't bother with a coffee with a man who made him look like an enemy of the city.
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Wenzel made himself look like an enemy of the general public by being and enemy of the general public (and getting caught). Nenshi just made the spotlight on him a little brighter.
We're talking about special interests who lobby for inefficient market subsidies, try to buy friendly governments by funding their campaigns, and try to do it without the public finding out (or mislead the public with spin and rhetoric). When those guys get their subsidies, it comes at a cost to taxpayers. There's no win-win here. Their gain is the city's loss... so in that sense, they are enemies, and thus portraying them as such is merely accurate. They're attacking our fiscal sustainability, environmental sustainability, and the integrity of our democracy.