Joe Red Deer promotes free speech and citizen awareness.
After recent rants on our Facebook page by the usual suspects, we felt it necessary to ask everyone to take a step back.
Joe Red Deer will always question the comments and actions of our Mayor and City Council.
However, we will never question them based on race, sex, religion, or sexual orientation as this has no relevance.
We promote free speech, and for that, have not censored any comments on our pages, even though it has increased the spam on our blog comments.
Let us stress that we do NOT approve of any actions of hatred.
We raise issues and sometimes push the buttons at City Hall in order to create action. We always reference information in our posts so that citizens of Red Deer can draw their own conclusions.
A few months back we gave everyone an opportunity to use our blog for the purpose of writing letters to the editor that the local papers would not publish.
However, there are many letters that have been sent to us that even we won't publish.
We have had letters accusing adultery, assault, prostitution, conspiracy to defraud, and racketeering. These are serious allegations that should be raised with law enforcement if there is any truth to them, and not with Joe Red Deer.
We will only publish these types of allegations with proof, or links to evidence to back up the statement.
We do not promote hatred. We promote debate and discussion, although it does take on a controversial nature at times.
So to Mr. Jamieson, Johnstone, Soucy, Butler, Allen, Ubbing, and others, please take a step back and stick to the issues being discussed, as we feel it has been crossing the line recently.
We have been pretty light on this council since the election because changes have already started.
For example, Councillor Paul Harris is no longer on the committee dealing with land development and City Manager Craig Curtis made suggestions on reducing administrative costs.
We will continue to point out the shortcomings of City Council going forward and any conflicts of interest that arise. It is apparent that this new Council and Mayor have acknowledged errors of the past and are starting to make changes.
This is all we ask.
We stated in our article 'Councillor Wyntjes Calls Out Joe Red Deer' that if Council started listening to the people instead of just their close friends, we might not have a need for Joe Red Deer.
If early actions of this term are any indication, perhaps we won't need Joe to raise the issues.
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Mayor Tara Veer - tara.veer@reddeer.ca
City Manager Craig Curtis - craig.curtis@reddeer.ca
Councillor Buck Buchanan - buck.buchanan@reddeer.ca
Councillor Tanya Handley - tanya.handley@reddeer.ca
Councillor Paul Harris - paul.harris@reddeer.ca
Councillor Ken Johnston - ken.johnston@reddeer.ca
Councillor Lawrence Lee - lawrence.lee@reddeer.ca
Councillor Lynne Mulder - lynne.mulder@reddeer.ca
Councillor Frank Wong - frank.wong@reddeer.ca
Councillor Dianne Wyntjes - dianne.wyntjes@reddeer.ca
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