[Kjesse]

The thing you are reminded about from mini-scandals like this is how disfunctional this group is.

Nenshi and Farrell take most of the blame this round for making intentionally widely distributed statements that they aren't willing to substantiate but at the same time which they are intending to create intrigue and questions.

Farrell talking about a "wild party" which really was one staff member's inability to control her own intake, seven years ago, and then also turning the issue into one of gender, demonstrates why she has been the most loved and hated councillor, at the same time. In some ways I like her $hit disturbing nature, but I'm so tired of her antics, I wish she would retire.

Now to Nenshi. Most are bashing Chu here, and he may deserve it, but Nenshi is getting too much of a free ride. It is fundamentally wrong as a Mayor to say that you have reports of councillors becoming "blotto" (which I'm sure is not the words he heard) while at the same time knowing you won't be allowed or required to back it up. Its like he's trying to take the back room issues and say what some of the issues are, without everything being laid on the table. He's clearly calling someone to the floor, and inviting the city population to think it could be their own councillor. It fosters the very disfunction he's been a part of all along. It was immature at best. His calling Chu out saying "we're not in junior high" was every bit as awful as what Chu himself said. Someone with his smarts knows very well how he could have put it, Nenshi made it as personal as what he was complaining about. But this is classic Nenshi, mind you.

Nenshi has all the tools to be a statesman, but all too often acts like he's in a playground.