Regional Councillor John Taylor's shady voting in favour of naming a Newmarket park after one of his clients during a recent secret meeting should have been a boon to his only "declared" 2014 Regional Council race opponent, Darryl Wolk.
Instead, Wolk's brief political career has suffered a major meltdown on the scale of the Fukushima reactor. As a person who lists Social Media Advocacy and Public Media Crisis Management as two areas of expertise, it has been comical to watch him alienate and denigrate the very few people who may have actually supported his political aspirations with a series of overtly hostile and off-putting tweets.
His allegations of "trolls", "hypocrisy", "attacking", and "drinking the Kool-Aid". against ordinary Newmarket voters over the past 48-hours is a classic example of crash and burn. If nothing else, he has demonstrated that he isn't the social media expert as he claims to be
As appropriate in any memorial service, let's take a look at the short yet absurd political career of Mr. Darryl Wolk.
Absurdity # 1 - The Endorsement
A month ago, Wolk raised a few eyebrows when he took to Twitter to proclaim that his candidacy for Regional Councillor had the endorsement of Newmarket-Aurora MP Lois Brown. His claim of an endorsement seemed highly unlikely to be legitimate because if it were true then MP Lois Brown has a lot of explaining to do. Here are two questions for MP Brown that immediately come to mind:
1) If Brown endorses Wolk, does she also endorse his views on legalisation of marijuana? With approximately 80 tweets/ re-tweets about legalising pot along with a couple of blog postings supporting the legalisation movement, Wolk is one of Newmarket's most prolific writers about ending the prohibition on dope. Maybe there is a side to Lois Brown that the community doesn't know about and perhaps she should take advantage of 420 to come out of the closet.
2) If she endorses Wolk, does she also agree with his opinion that Michael Sona is being framed by the brass in the Conservative Party? Wolk gave an interview to the Guelph Mercury (click here for the article) that Sona who currently facing charges for the robocalls scandal during the federal election, is no more than a patsy for the big-wigs at Conservative Party HQ. If Lois is down with Wolk's view that Sona is the CPC fall guy, then I'm certain Stephen Maher and Glen McGregor want to interview her for the front page of the National Post.
I don't believe that Lois Brown is neither a pot head, nor is she a big advocate of election fraud, therefore I find it highly unlikely that she would lend her reputation to someone of the ilk of Wolk. But in case I'm wrong, I'm going to invite her to make public if she intends to endorse his candidacy If she doesn't, will Wolk admit that he made this endorsement nonsense up?
Absurdity # 2 - His Track Record
More than a few times we've endured Wolk's whinges that this current term of Council has achieved nothing. And he would like Newmarket voters to know, that he is the man to fix the impasse. If that were true, then why did Wolk lend his tremendous campaign experience to both Regional Councillor Taylor's and Mayor Van Bynen's re-election bids? The gruesome two-some of Newmarket politics apparently have Darryl Wolk to thank for their electoral success according to his web site. Is Wolk admitting that he made a mistake when he catapulted these two back into office or will he be running on their track record of ineffectiveness. Which is it going to be?
The truth is very much that Wolk is masking himself as a "conservative" while riding the coat tails of the tax-and-spend left wing of Council which includes the Van Bynen/ Taylor alliance. And like anyone who campaigns under a party's nomination or a faction's bloc, Wolk would be wise to understand that the Van Bynen/ Taylor record is going to be his record too. He has a lot to answer for about his buddies' ineffectiveness.
And on that note, what of his claim that he can work with anyone regardless of political stripe? Clearly, Wolk is as acrimonious towards Councillor Di Muccio as the Regional Councillor Taylor is with Di Muccio. What does Wolk offer to Council harmony that Taylor isn't already achieving? To quote one recent tweeter, Di Muccio can win any election contest that she puts her mind toward. If she decides to run for Mayor, as Wolk claims she will, then he has done a poor job of ingratiating himself to his new boss should he pull off a stunning upset against Taylor. It is ridiculous that someone who uses his Twitter account almost exclusively for "kissing backsides" would screw up what would potentially be his most important Council relationship should he actually win in 2014. As I have pointed out in earlier blogs, with two representatives from Newmarket at Regional Council, if the Regional Councillor doesn't vote with the Mayor then their votes cancel each other out leaving Newmarket without a voice. So if Wolk doesn't follow Di Muccio's leadership in Regional Council, then why would voters select him?
Frankly, I don't see how Wolk has a snowball's chance in h-e-double hockey sticks of defeating John Taylor in a head to head election (assuming that Taylor survives the series of scandals and seeks re-election).
For Newmarket voters, it is a catch-22 decision. We get to choose between the guy who condones DUI versus the guy who condones election fraud.
At least it won't be a mystery to explain the record low voter turnout in 2014.
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